Creative Writing

Jesse Curran: Before the Soil Settles: Quarantine Acts, Spring 2020

Published by on June 15, 2020 | 2 Responses
Jesse Curran: Before the Soil Settles: Quarantine Acts, Spring 2020

Jesse Curran graduated from our doctoral program in 2012; her dissertation, “From Mourning to Meditation, Theorizing Ecopoetics, Thinking Ecology,” directed by Susan Scheckel, is a brilliantly contemporary re-reading of the works of Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson. In addition to teaching in the First Year Experience program at SUNY Old Westbury, she’s a yoga […]

“Open Sesame,” by Kaha Mohamed Ahen

Published by on June 1, 2020 | 2 Responses
Kaha Mohammed Aden

Kaha Mohamed Aden’s collection of short stories, Fra-intendimenti, was published in 2010 by Nottetempo. As Alessandra Marino points out, this title “introduces the central theme of the precariousness of intercultural communication as a border practice. The deconstruction of the Italian word fraintendimenti, literally meaning ‘misunderstandings’, refers both to the migrants’ condition of living in-between (fra) […]

Background Image: From John Milton's "Of Education" (1644).
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