“Next to mom, I love Antioch College best!”

DEEP KRITIK with Dr. NATALIE SUZELIS, Assistant Professor of Literature
The House of the Fiery Ferns

WHAT’S NEXT: THE FUTURE OF ART WITH MICHAEL CASSELLI ‘87

A Buffalo Grazing: Flower Children Come Home
ONWARD AND UPWARD: SHANE CREEPINGBEAR ’08, DEAN OF ADMISSIONS
WINNING VICTORIES FOR HUMANITY: an interview with Mary Evans ‘20

LoVerne Brown and Ed Ruscha
Two poems by LoVerne Brown, read by President Emeritus Manley between the ocean and the art of Ed Ruscha at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Travel Edition
May 15th is nearly upon us. If plans hold, on that day my family and I plus two dogs, a cat and six suitcases will depart from Washington, Dulles International, for a long trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Poetry + Baseball = Haiku
Beyond the surging signs of spring, April is also national poetry month AND the beginning of baseball season. It’s a double header of the best sort.

Light, Fog, Fire: Ferlinghetti, Milosz, Ammons, Bashō, Komachi
At 101 Lawrence Ferlinghetti had outlived his era-mates by many years. That, it occurred to me, may have been bittersweet: the deepening saturation of truth and beauty “happily amid complexity and paradox” and the physical absence of those we write and make for.

Seeing Red: Williams, Sojun, Stevens
Poems that help us see red—these are what I delight in sending to you on a snow-blown afternoon from Yellow Springs.

A Quickish Story, Rimbaud, Wright (Again)
One of my most satisfying interludes with poetry involved “wrapping” an entire 65,000-square-foot building in a poem by Arthur Rimbaud.

Lorde, Wright, Sogi
The Japanese poet and diarist Sei Shonagon noted among the tricks of time and distance the deceptive proximity of the last day of the year and the first day of the new year: things that were near and far at the same moment.

Dove, Kooser, and Heaney

Safe, On Campus
Entering the final weeks of fall quarter, no Covid-19 cases on campus

Seamus Heaney and Louise Glück

Doorways: Thich Naht Nan, Mary Oliver

Dunbar, Giovanni, Jess

Sounding Two Poems by Ross Gay

A Return to Campus
I want to share information about plans to return to campus this fall

Being the Shortest Day

The Purpose of Poetry: Wendell Berry, Czelaw Milosz, Jack Gilbert

Songs and Maps Against Forgetfulness — Joy Harjo

Terence Hayes, Rainer Marie Rilke, James Wright, Ruth Stone and Galway Kinnell

Rilke and the Rediscovery of Purpose in ‘Senseless Disorder’

Snow on Water
Residence Life – What to Bring!
Preparing for Your Arrival
Welcome from the Dean of Students

Love/Poetry/Consciousness/Collaboration—In whatever order you find them

Inspired by Mollusks

Mary Mann to Charles Sumner May 30th 1865

Shelby Chestnut ’05 on 2018 LGBTQ State of the Union panel

Rebecca Smith ’16, human rights legal fellow

San Francisco Mime Troupe Youth Theater Project

A Radio Associates Day-to-Day Life

Antioch professor receives New York Association of Black Journalists Award

Clay Master in Training

Three Poems on Silence

Billy Collins

Mary Oliver

For Abel Coelho ’04
Storyteller
Art as a Tool for Peace and Justice

Creative Disruptions
Weathering the Storm
Derek Walcott
