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October 4, 2023
Emily Skillings is a recipient of the 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts for a poetry fellowship. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients and...
August 8, 2023
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force on the American stage since the premiere of her groundbreaking, Obie Award–winning Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964. Her haunting and powerful...
Sinéad O’Connor
August 1, 2023
For years, O’Connor had been raising an alarm about pedophile priests exploiting children with impunity while an enabling Vatican hierarchy looked the other way.
June 28, 2023
Rattlestick Theater has selected playwright  a.k. payne (YC, 2019) as one of its 2023-24 Van Lier New Voices Fellows. Funded by the New York Community Trust and the Jerome...
May 15, 2023
Heartiest congratulations to the English Department Prize winners for 2022-2023!
April 11, 2023
TIME Magazine Prisons Use Menstration as a Form of Punishment There are approximately 170,000 people incarcerated in women’s jails and prisons across the country. While some...
April 10, 2023
Marta Figlerowicz has two recent publications in The Paris Review. The Mother of the Mother of Virgin Mary  “Saint who?” I asked. “Eh-meh-ren-tsya,” Olga Tokarczuk repeated....