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Photo: Elsa Dorfman – Wikimedia Commons Video for this show is being reworked … please be patient. Rock Steady: The Revolutionary Soul of Nikki Giovanni – 2021 Concept and curation by Quanda Johnson On April 8, 2021, four talented
In this second reading (of three) of the letters of Willa Cather, we find her in Pittsburgh and then New York, doing mostly (to her regret) journalism. But she takes a trip to the southwest, publishes a few short stories
Acting Un-American – HUAC and the Federal Theatre Project Fermat’s adaptation of the testimony of Hallie Flanagan before the House Un-American Activities Committee With live theater a fevered dream in the midst of the 2020 COVID pandemic, Fermat’s recorded Acting
Fermat’s Last Theater presents August 13, 2020, Cafe Coda Madison Concept and curation by Quanda Johnson Program Lawd, How Come Me Here – Negro spiritual – sung by Quanda Johnson From Giovanni’s Room – read by Melvin Hinton The
Gregg Williard’s fiction, non-fiction and visual art have been published in Shenandoah, New England Review, The Iowa Review, The Rupture, Into the Void and Diagram, among others. He teaches English to refugees and does a book reading show on WORT
Robert Ingersoll speaking the eulogy at Walt Whitman’s funeral Robert Ingersoll, called The Great Agnostic, was one of the premier orators of the second half of the 19th century, and gave the funeral eulogy for Walt Whitman on March 30,
Kafka’s “Lost Writings” … not really lost, but now translated into English https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-lost-writings/#/ https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/franz-kafka-06-29-20 Short Talk on Kafka on Hölderlin Anne Carson MAY 28, 2020 ISSUE “I cannot keep my dreams straight.” By this complaint Kafka meant, keep them going in
Love Poems by Pablo Neruda Read by husband and wife team Juan Egea and Sarli Mercado, from the UW-Madison Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Sarli we just featured in our Podcast, Women in Translation. Juan is is professor
Francine Hirsch, the UW Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History has a newish book: Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II Prof Hirsch gave a live stream talk about the
Lori DiPrete Brown Sarli Mercado Lori DiPrete Brown is founding director of UW-Madison’s 4W Women and Well-Being Initiative, which develops and supports a