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A recording of our digital reading of poetry, fiction, and essays from our annual literary anthology, with ASL interpreting. To celebrate the release of
Boston Review s annual Arts in Society issue,
Ancestors, we hosted a digital reading from contributors, featuring poetry, fiction, memoir, and essays. This was the third in our series of events to celebrate the book’s release, with the first and second also viewable on our site.
ASL interpreting was provided by Susan Pacheco-Correa and Selena Flowers of Pro Bono ASL, and the evening was hosted by
Boston Review Arts Editor Adam McGee and Contributing Arts Editor Ivelisse Rodriguez.
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Bryant Gomez launched a study during last year s quarantine that became the basis for his honors thesis
Bryant Gomez had barely settled into his first year as a transfer student at Rutgers University-Newark when the campus shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But unlike the millions of other college students who had to quarantine with their parents, Gomez, a psychology major, wanted to study how the lockdown was affecting their happiness.
He reached out to a professor and together they launched an experiment to determine what types of positive psychology interventions people thought would help them cope as they faced endless months of isolation.
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