Part 2 of the Dream Geographies collaboration between poet Judith Serin and artist Masami Inoue. — I’m walking in the Richmond neighborhood, near where my husband, Herbert, and I used to live, but the fancy part, around Lake Street, close to Sea Cliff. Among the grid of city streets and large square houses that fill their lots...
Broad Street presents a collaboration between poet Judith Serin and visual artist Masami Inoue. Dreams lie somewhere on a map, and these two are seeking the legend to read it.
Once devils lived in everything. They lurked in trees, hid in ponds, crept through forests, hexed our crops, sickened our livestock and our children, cursed our limbs so they withered. They brought down fires and illness and disappointments of all sorts. We set out gifts for them: bowls of milk, or an extra plate at...
Photo: Magda Barthofer Charlotte Simmonds, author of “Kipaw-paw-pish,” spoke with us about finding truth in her writing process–and advice for others who seek to tell the truth. How did you choose the distinctive voice in which you wrote “Kipaw-paw-pish!”? And how close to the “real” you is that voice? While “Kipaw-paw-pish!” is factual, I chose a...
Jenny Stenger, © President and Fellows of Harvard College When you hear the word “library,” old books and wooden shelves come to mind, and the sense-memory of that distinct aroma released while flipping through the aged pages. However, at Harvard University, the shelves of one library are filled with something different — colors. Pigments of every...
