Don’t mind if I do at the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) brings Shannon’s fantasy to life. The exhibit features a 25-foot ...

Smith College Professor Michael Thurston uncovers how one influential critic helped shape the early American literary landscape As difficult as it might be to believe today, there wasn’t much support ...

Ungulates (2 toes): A hoofed mammal, including deer, moose, horse. Rodents (5 rear toes/4 front): Gnawing animals, including squirrels, rats, mice, porcupines and beavers. Stunted conifers: A ...

At the conclusion of the semester, Hyde and her students collaborated with the librarians at the Hillyer Art Library to adapt the students’ stories into zines. Students were inspired by everything ...

Natalie Diaz’s poetry is raw, rhythmic, and tender. The New York Times called her debut, When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), an “ambitious… beautiful book.” Pima and Mojave, and an enrolled member of ...

Adrienne Rich‘s life and writings have bravely and eloquently challenged roles, myths, and assumptions for half a century. She has been a fervent activist against racism, sexism, economic injustice, ...

David Cohen's fields of interests include empirical logic, quantum theory, the application of logic, analysis and algebra to physics and the mathematical education of nonmathematicians. The goal of ...

Danez Smith’s most recent collection—Bluff—interrogates America’s systemic racism, our country’s epidemic of gun violence, the murder of George Floyd, and how the language of poetry might serve as a ...

Lucille Clifton is one of the most beloved and respected figures in American poetry today. A major voice since her publishing debut in 1969, she has continued to portray the experiences of being an ...

Jamaal May, described by the Boston Review as a “poet as machinist”, writes exquisite paths between the melancholy and the sublime. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, May explores themes of ...

British poet and painter Frieda Hughes’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, and London Magazine. Her first full-length collection of poems, Wooroloo, was published by HarperCollins in ...

Cornelius Eady is the author of seven books of poetry and two librettos. Praised for his approachable and simple language, Eady captures the emotional vulnerability of life in a clean, elegant style.