by Lisa Schantl | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
The Age of Poetry: On and off the Page Poetry is having a major moment. We seem to turn to it, to need it most when the world’s leaders debase language and thereby thought and action. And yet within the world of poetry, a division exists, an aesthetic line in the...
by Manon Hakem-Lemaire | Jun 21, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Jews of “Latin” America “He’s Mexican,” I told my French mom about my boyfriend. “Oh, does he have a mustache and a sombrero?” she replied, amused. After months spent in Mexico, mostly among the Jewish community, I was taken aback by my mom’s comment. Where did this...
by Kersti Francis | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Fleeing Backwards: The Problematic Present in Medieval Studies When and how do we talk about the attitudes of an entire field? These conversations often occur in office hours, not in articles, emerging over drinks at conferences or in fights in closed Facebook groups....
by Kelly Alblinger | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Notes From a Saint Life lessons have the tendency to sneak up on us. Often, we’re going about our business, doing what we do, and a message from the universe smacks us upside the head without warning. If we are paying attention, the impact can be life-altering. Our...
by Marissa Mika | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Nesting For years, we had cats. Gigantic rescue cats, retrieved from a Philadelphia parking lot when they were only a pair of gray and black kittens, as benign and rambunctious as the cubs in Tiger King. But they grew into the sort of cats who fantasized all day long...
by Madison Felman-Panagotacos | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Sacrificial Motherhood and Bodily Autonomy Deolinda Correa trudged across the arid Cuyo Valley in search of her husband, her infant son in tow. While her initial goal was the pursuit of her husband, who had been forcibly conscripted by a regional caudillo — a...
