Jericho Brown and Danez Smith in Conversation with Tracy K. Smith
Join 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith, as she discusses poetry, survival and our pandemic reality with renowned poets Jericho Brown and Danez Smith.
This highlighted Wintersession event will feature poetry readings by Jericho Brown, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; and award-winning poet, performer, and current Princeton Arts Fellow Danez Smith. Professor Smith will moderate a conversation on art, America, and the feelings and determinations arising from this complicated moment. An interactive audience Q&A will conclude the evening.
Tracy K. Smith is Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the author of four award-winning poetry collections, including Life on Mars, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. She served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Jackie Saccoccio, Painter of Explosive Abstraction, Dies at 56
She specialized in large canvases on which splashes of luminous color swirled and clashed. Her goal was to make her paintings seem as if they were moving.
Jackie Saccoccio in 2017 in a studio in Umbria, Italy. She made several trips to Italy to study art, sojourns that became essential to her work.Credit.Marco Giugliarelli/Civitella Ranieri Foundation
Published Dec. 28, 2020Updated Jan. 1, 2021
Jackie Saccoccio, a painter known for explosive yet delicately structured, almost atmospheric abstract paintings that exploited paint’s fluidity in the tradition of Jackson Pollock, Paul Jenkins and Helen Frankenthaler, died on Dec. 4 in Manhattan. She was 56.
UAB professor targets Wall Street Journal for op-ed questioning Jill Biden’s title
Over the summer, University of Alabama at Birmingham archaeology Professor Sarah Parcak tweeted a schematic instructing rioters on how to topple an obelisk, such as one at a Birmingham park or the Washington Monument in the nation’s capital.
Later that month, Parcak demanded the History Channel television show “Ancient Aliens” be canceled, calling it “one of the most racist shows on TV.”
Now Parcak is back, complaining about a
Wall Street Journal op-ed by former Northwestern University lecturer Joseph Epstein that mocked future First Lady Jill Biden for using the ceremonial title of “Doctor.”
Photo: Nikolas Kokovlis/Zuma Press Dec. 15, 2020 6:17 pm ET
A Dec. 13 Twitter thread by Sarah Parcak, a professor of archaeology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation:
I know everyone is angry about what Joseph epstein wrote about Dr Biden yesterday in the @WSJ However the real aim for our ire should be @jamestaranto the editor of their op-ed page. He has, so far, completely escaped accountability. That ends now.
James, explain yourself. When 3k+ Americans die daily from covid, millions suffer w food insecurity +eviction, major sedition happening, racism, climate change.you give space to an angry old white misogynist to yell at our future 1st lady re her Ed.D?