J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

I’m excited to say we have Kate Campbell coming to JCJC in April to help us Celebrate Eudora Welty’s birthday. She is a singer/songwriter who has written music based on Welty’s fiction. She also writes a great deal about civil rights and Southern culture in general. You can go to her website to listen to [...]

Barry Hannah, 1942-2010

who would believe them winged who would believe they could be beautiful who would believe they could fall so in love with mortals that they would attach themselves as scars attach and ride the skin sometimes we hear them in our dreams rattling their skulls clicking their bony fingers they have heard me beseeching as [...]

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine ~Lucille Clifton, “why some people be mad at me sometimes,” from Blessing the Boats, New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 Isn’t that always the case? Isn’t that half our problem each time we try to talk to [...]