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A Poetic Toolkit: Meaning and Mystery with Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman is the 2021 Kapnick Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Virginia. Hillman has authored ten full-length collections, the most recent of which is
Extra Hidden Life, among the Days (Wesleyan University Press, 2018). Her poems have also been collected in three chapbooks
The Firecage (A+Bend Press, 2000);
Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995); and
There are plenty of prospects to be excited about for the upcoming 2021 season.
Can Randy Arozarena and Ke Bryan Hayes continue their superlative play from the end of the season? When will Wander Franco, the game s consensus most phenomenal phenom, make his debut with the Rays? We can t wait for the answers to these and many more questions.
Next year, the Majors could see an influx of superstar shortstop talent with Bobby Witt Jr. (Royals), CJ Abrams (Padres) and Marco Luciano (Giants). Many of the top picks in the 2020 Draft could arrive in 2022 too, such as Spencer Torkelson (Tigers), Max Meyer (Marlins) and Austin Martin (Blue Jays).
There are plenty of prospects to be excited about for the upcoming 2021 season.
Can Randy Arozarena and Ke Bryan Hayes continue their superlative play from the end of the season? When will Wander Franco, the game s consensus most phenomenal phenom, make his debut with the Rays? We can t wait for the answers to these and many more questions.
Next year, the Majors could see an influx of superstar shortstop talent with Bobby Witt Jr. (Royals), CJ Abrams (Padres) and Marco Luciano (Giants). Many of the top picks in the 2020 Draft could arrive in 2022 too, such as Spencer Torkelson (Tigers), Max Meyer (Marlins) and Austin Martin (Blue Jays).
In September 2014, I was commissioned by the New York-based free speech advocacy group PEN American Center to investigate how Western authors were navigating the multibillion-dollar Chinese publishing world and its massive, but opaque, censorship apparatus. Writing the resulting report, “Censorship and Conscience,” was fun and important work. Many China-focused writers and people in the industry had a sense of how bad the censorship problem was for Western authors, but no one had satisfactorily mapped the contours of the problem. Did it affect everyone, or just nonfiction writers who couldn’t avoid touching on Chinese human rights topics? How often were writers caving to censorship requests, or were they just as likely to opt for publishing without cuts in Taiwan or Hong Kong?