Chatoyant House

12/16/2024

The Rhode Island State House decorated for the holidays🎄🎁❄️

12/15/2024

Winter is coming! Check out our roundup of poems that will be sure to put you in a festive mood.

12/15/2024

Out this week: Paul Celan’s Letters to Gisèle, a big collection of the poet’s missives to his wife, the French artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange. 💌

The letters cover twenty years of their relationship, during and after the end of their marriage. Celan, known for his dark and difficult poems, writes letters that are at turns tender and doting, anxious and haunted, many spilling over with declarations of love for Gisèle. In these letters, Celan sometimes translates his poems into French for the benefit of his Francophone wife, creating versions of his poems that exist nowhere else, many of them quite different from their published form. On the whole, the letters give a glimpse into the mind of a significant artist, one of the most important of the 20th century. The book also includes letters from Celan to his son Eric.

12/15/2024

Westminster Street in Providence in December 1974

12/04/2024

Submissions to The Commuter are OPEN! We want to see your short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Each category will be capped at 375 submissions, so don't wait to submit! electricliterature.submittable.com

12/04/2024

Every time you read James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” the words make an impact.

We can’t wait to hear Tom Jenks and Carol Edgarian dive into his world in our inaugural Narrative Readers Club event! This personal reading of “Sonny’s Blues” provides ongoing observations of the aesthetics underlying Baldwin’s perfect short story.

Join us for a discussion with others who love Baldwin as much as you do.

📅 December 4 at 5pm PST
💻 Online
🎟️ RSVP: https://www.narrativemagazine.com/narrative-readers-club/tom-jenks-james-baldwin-sonnys-blues-carol-edgarian

12/01/2024

http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/blog-posts/keeping-oral-history-alive-diversity-in-the-application-of-oral-history?format=amp

In this post, based on Lorina Barker’s presentation, current Oral History MA student Lizzie Li discusses the diversity of oral history in real practice.

12/01/2024

Our Pushcart nominations are out in the world! We’ll announce them when the writers are notified.

11/26/2024

Rhode Island leaders will not support President-Elect Trump's mass deportation plan.

11/26/2024

If you’re a Baldwin fan (or just love great stories), join us for this special inaugural Narrative Reader’s Club event!

We’re celebrating our editor and cofounder Tom Jenks’s new book: “James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues’”—from the My Reading series from Oxford University Press.

Join Tom and cofounder Carol Edgarian in conversation as they discuss Baldwin’s inspiration and influence on millions of readers everywhere, and the humanizing power of great stories to transform our experience of the world and our understanding of each other.

There’s nothing quite like diving into James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” with others who truly get it.

📅 December 4 at 5pm PST
💻 Online
🎟️ RSVP: https://www.narrativemagazine.com/narrative-readers-club/tom-jenks-james-baldwin-sonnys-blues-carol-edgarian