Plato’s Spotlight: A Showcase with Dani Freixas-Pavez ’27
Plato’s Cave features a poetry reading and interview with Dani Freixas-Pavez ’27 in the second installment of the student showcase series, Plato’s Spotlight.
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Office Hours: Russian Poetry and Translation with Professor Catherine A. Ciepiela
In this episode, Briana Bao ’28 and Rita Xing ’28 sit down together with Howard M. and Martha P. Mitchell Professor of Russian and Director of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture Catherine Ciepiela to discuss translating Russian poetry and teaching at Amherst.
The New “Tradition” of Poet Jericho Brown
Staff Writer Harry Finnegan ’28 reports back from the second annual Rhonda Cobham-Sander Lecture, where Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown captivated the audience with his inventive “duplex” poems and spellbinding stage presence.
Daffodils to Drones: Reading Outside the Western Canon
Staff Writer Amaya Ranatunge ’28 explores how Arabic and Arab diaspora poetry at Amherst challenges the Western literary canon by tying art to activism. Discover this form of poetry that refuses silence by insisting on being heard even in the face of oppression.
The Indicator x The Student: “Illusioned”
Originally published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Indicator, Pauline Bissell ’25 writes about reimaginings of everyday life in “Illusioned.”
BIPOC Creatives: Mel Arthur ’25
In the inaugural edition of her column “Asking BIPOC Creatives,” Managing Arts & Living Editor Mackenzie Dunson ’25 interviews poet Mel Arthur ’25.
Transformative and Connective: Visiting Writer Danielle Vogel
Cross-genre poet Danielle Vogel visited Amherst as part of the English Department’s Visiting Writers Series. Abby Kim ’27 covers her reading and conversation about her unbounded poetry.