“Your cadence is a little, it’s … not white. You don’t talk like a white person. Right? And that’s fine.” I can imagine the stunned silence when Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle recently made this inappropriate comment to an Easthampton.
We celebrated April Fools’ Day recently by reading social media posts and listening to our friends’ claims with a slightly more critical approach than usual. No one wants to fall for a foolish prank. Unfortunately, healthy skepticism doesn’t last.
Forty years ago, our college sociology professor brought several classes together for a role-playing game called Guns or Butter. We gathered in a large-windowed campus lounge and spread the game board and pieces across a large table bathed in winter.
Jackson Aw escapes into the world of computer games when he needs a break. Interestingly, he doesn’t play the typical stress-busting genres that usually involve racing cars or blowing things up. Instead, the founder and CEO of design studio Mighty Jaxx is obsessed with complex civilisation and town planning simulation games like Humankind, often resetting them hundreds of times until.
The One Night The Dog Was Good written and read by Nance Van Winckel
Nance Van Winckel s most recent collection of poems, which won the Pacific Coast Poetry Award, is
Our Foreigner (Beyond Baroque Books, 2016). Other collections of poems include
Pacific Walkers (U. of Washington Press, 2013),
No Starling (U. of Washington Press, 2007),
Beside Ourselves (Miami U. Press, 2000),
After a Spell (Miami U. Press, 1998),
The Dirt(Miami U. Press, 1994), and
Bad Girl, with Hawk (U. of Illinois, 1988).
Ever Yrs, a novel in the form of a scrapbook (Twisted Road Publications, 2014) and
Boneland: Linked Stories (U. of Oklahoma Press, 2013). Other books of fiction include