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Poetry for all the mothers and daughters healing the bloodlines
Belly to the Brutal sings a corrido of the love between mothers and daughters, confronting the learned complicity with patriarchal violence passed down from generation to generation.
A record of visionary experience in the wake of loss
Poet Kerri Webster writes into the vast space left by the deaths of three women: her mother, a mentor, and a friend using a wide array of lyric forms.
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“I became aware of the addictiveness of writing about grief…”
Introduction KERRI WEBSTER is the author of the poetry collections The Trailhead, We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone, and Grand & Arsenal, the latter of which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. The…
Read MoreIntroducing Life Lines: Poets in Conversation
A podcast produced by Wesleyan University Press with a grant from the NEA. Dropping on September 20th. In the first season of Life Lines: Poets in Conversation, hosted by Pushcart-prize nominated…
Read MoreBelly to the Brutal: An Interview with Jennifer Givhan
Introduction JENNIFER GIVHAN is an award-winning Mexican-American poet and novelist whose family has ancestral ties to the Indigenous peoples of New Mexico and Texas. Her books of poetry include Landscape…
Read MoreSound and Sovereignty in Ukraine
Recipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society
Wild Music
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The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
Tambura Bands, Race, and Affective Block in Croatia and Its Intimates
An Introduction to the Music Cultures of al-Qa’ida, Racist Skinheads, Christian-Affiliated Radicals, and Eco-Animal Rights Militants
Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria
Making Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv