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2023 Anne Halley Prize Reading
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View a recording of our 2023 Anne Halley Poetry Prize Reading with winner Megan Pinto!
View a recording of our 2023 Anne Halley Poetry Prize Reading with winner Megan Pinto!
ON APRIL 6, 2023, AT 6:00, in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Old Chapel, the...
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.
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...
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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