Monthly Archives: March 2011

Scots poet Robin Robertson

Reading @ Trinity University, Ruth Taylor Hall Art Gallery Friday April 1 (no fooling!) at 4p.m. Robinson is from the northeast coast near Perth, but has lived for many years in London, where he is currently deputy publishing director for Jonathan Cape. His debut, A PAINTED FIELD, won the 1997 Forward First Book Prize and

V-Day

Okay, I admit it. At first I was a little ho-hum about participating in a staged reading of The Vagina Monologues. (Isn’t that, like, a little mid-90s?) But someone I admire asked me to, and so I said okay. And now, thinking about performing my little bit tomorrow night, along with other Trinity women faculty

Open Letter

I have a short essay up, along with a wide and illuminating range of responses to Claudia Rankine‘s Open Letter on writing about race. Thanks to Claudia for asking, and continuing to ask. And interesting to be thinking back on Sierra Leone right now, as I’ll be returning in May with the University of Iowa’s