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The date of Commencement was previously announced as May 30 th; however, given current pandemic conditions, the University is reviewing other options for the last week of May. The University is currently planning to hold the ceremony in-person on Wesleyan’s Middletown campus, though off-campus guests will be restricted to virtual attendance given the ongoing threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. More details about the ceremony and a definitive date for Commencement will be announced by the end of March. Reginald Dwayne Betts, an award-winning poet, memoirist, and teacher, is this year’s ...

Monday, 22nd February 2021 Supporters of Donald Trump breach Capitol Hill in an attempt to halt the certification of the election result In 1946, a 12-year-old Jewish girl named Krystyna arrived in New York City from Poland. Her survival had been improbable. In the Warsaw Ghetto her mother had dressed her up in high heels and a kerchief so that they would be taken for forced labour together. Krystyna had known that deportation meant death. She imagined her friends as having fallen into a black hole. Seventy years later, Krystyna remembered the day that she and her mother escaped from the g...

And this is how a poem by Kirk Nesset made it into the pages of Poetry. Nesset, a 63-year-old former Allegheny College English professor, pleaded guilty in 2015 to possession, receipt, and distribution of child pornography; he was sentenced to 76 months in federal prison and released this fall. He is now on the sex offender registry in Arizona. From the moment the issue came out, sexual violence survivors, victims’ advocates, and assorted feminists began raining angry tweets, blogs, and public statements on Poetry and its publisher, the Poetry Foundation. A Change.org petition demanding ...

Special spring Talking Volumes series to focus on race Four writers of color will discuss their work in the context of race in America.  February 12, 2021 — 9:46am Text size Copy shortlink: A special spring edition of the Talking Volumes literary series, devoted to the topic of race in America, will take place on consecutive Tuesdays in March. Co-sponsored by the Star Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio, the conversations with four authors will be hosted by MPR journalists Kerri Miller and Brandt Williams and will take place virtu...

Black Contemporary Art Online Aesthetica teams up with ISE-DA – a trailblazing platform promoting Black visual arts culture – to highlight the best digital exhibitions, online galleries and videos. Established for young creatives, collectors and enthusiasts of Black African descent, ISE-DA aims to cultivate a pioneering new generation of creatives who are interested, invested and informed about art across the Diaspora. February is Black History Month in the US; many of their selected links are essential resources to educate and inspire. Africa. The Caribbean. USA. Afrosoul celebrat...