Writers share what they have been thinking about, working on, and reading in 2020 ... exploring creativity in quarantine, in isolation, in grief, in action, in disruption...
We asked artist and writer Erica Van Horn to reflect on creativity in 2020; in response, she shared recent entries from her long-running blog "The Journal -- Some Words for Living Locally"
In response to the Beinecke Library's invitation to reflect on creativity in this time of isolation, Arthur Sze shared a reading of his poem “Acequia del Llano”
We asked poet Richard Deming what he has been thinking about in this time of isolation and quarantine. In response, he read us the last paragraph of Ralph...
We asked poet and musician Cornelius Eady what he has been thinking about in this time of isolation; in response, he talked about finding new ways to collaborate with his fellow musicians and about the importance of documenting the present moment through creative practice.
We asked poet, critic, and novelist Wayne Koestenbaum what he has been thinking about in this time of isolation and quarantine. In response, he showed us his...
We asked 2019 Bollingen Prize-winning poet Charles Bernstein what he has been thinking about, working on, and reading in this time of isolation and quarantine...
We asked scholar, critic, and prize-winning essayist Emily Bernard what she has been thinking about, working on, and reading in this time of isolation and...
We asked playwright and friend of the Yale Collection of American Literature Donald Margulies what he has been thinking about, working on, and reading in this time of isolation and quarantine...in response, he shared his extraordinary visual collage work