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2023 Anne Halley Prize Reading

May 31, 2023 - By

View a recording of our 2023 Anne Halley Poetry Prize Reading with winner Megan Pinto!

Spring Reading with the Mass Review

April 10, 2023 - By Staff

ON APRIL 6, 2023, AT 6:00, in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Old Chapel, the...

Disability Justice: A Reading

February 3, 2023 - By

View a recording of our Disability Justice: A Reading event, featuring featuring Zefyr Lisowski, Bhavna Mehta, Claude Olson, and Saleem Hue Penny!

Closed Captioning is available, and an audio transcript can be found here.

Video Work featured in Vol. 63, Issue 4

December 19, 2022 - By Panteha Abareshi

NOT BETTER YET

Methods of Care for the Precarious Body

PANTEHA ABARESHI is a Canadian-born American multidisciplinary artist and curator. They are based in Los Angeles, California and were raised in Tucson. Abareshi was born with sickle cell zero beta thalassemia, a genetic blood disorder that causes debilitating pain, and bodily deterioration that both increase...

The Legacy of Jules Chametzky

October 28, 2022 - By Jim Hicks

In this full-day event, the morning session focused on collective commemoration of the life of Jules Chametzky--the teacher, mentor, scholar, family man, and activist. The proceedings open with a poem written for the occasion, read by its author, Martín Espada. Memories from family members follow, and then those of friends. The morning concludes with a talk on "Black Reparations, Present and Future," by William A. Darity--a subject that Jules spoke about often.

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