Cornell Department of Literatures in English

TODAY @ 7PM! Join us for the Reading by Camonghne Felix, poet, writer, and political strategist. In the interim, read Felix's tribute to Breonna Taylor: https://www.glamour.com//for-breonna-poem-by-camonghne-fel Register: ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K040821/ eCornell

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1 week until the Reading by Camonghne Felix! Associate Professor Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon had this to say about "Build Yourself a Boat," her first full-length collection of poems: "Where is the room for Black folks to be in their bodies? Framed here in this book, between a slip of ‘Weary’ and ‘DISCLAIMER,’ is a theory. [Felix’s] footnotes articulate spaces in which we might sink or swim, or skate. She declares, ‘you can’t un-see me,’ skewering American political nostalgiali...beral and conservative. As I type this, I right click and choose ‘Add to Dictionary’ in order to erase the red wave under her name that signifies a mistake to be addressed. I choose to include her in my lexicon ‘because we’re looking at a critical fault otherwise.’ Who else could possibly do this impossible work justice? Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, author of Open Interval (From Haymarket Books: haymarketbooks.org/books/1274-build-yourself-a-boat) Register: ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K040821/

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"During fall 2020, a range of faculty members used archival collections for virtual instruction. For an art history course on women and U.S. politics, Professor of English Shirley Samuels in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) drew from visual and literary materials from the Johnson Museum and RMC, including a wealth of documents and artifacts related to the women’s suffrage movement." Read more: https://news.cornell.edu//vaults-virtual-classes-library-a

https://english.cornell.edu/christopher-berardino-mfa-18-wi

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