Poetry in the Quad (Between Buildings 1800 and 1400) is a diverse, encouraging, inspiring, supportive, joyful outside event where we all come together to
"Available through the library website, Poetry & Short Story Reference Center contains a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques." - Publisher
Shakespeare’s representation of weather, climate and environment : The early modern “Fated Sky”.
"While ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more and more attention, climate-related issues remain fairly neglected, particularly in the field of Shakespeare studies. This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena" (Chiari, 2019).
Necroclimatism in a spectral world (dis)order? Rain petitioning, climate and weather engineering in 21st century Africa.
"Deemed to constitute disposable bodies, disposable cultures, disposable polities, disposable societies, disposable epistemologies, disposable religions, disposable laws and disposable economies, the sacrificed are, in the age of climate catastrophism, once again reminded that they 'have duties to die', to become extinct in order to save the global spaceship that is sinking due to climate change and global warming." -- Project Muse
Variability of the sun and sun-like stars : from asteroseismology to space weather.
"However, we are still far from fully understanding what and how causes this variability. Why does the Sun continue to go on, on a rhythmic scale, the so-called solar cycle, without damping? How to better understand the complicated relationships between the Sun, the heliosphere and the many proxies of long-term solar activity?" - From Publisher
A hard rain: America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost.
"In the end, there is the disastrous Democratic National Convention of 1968, the driving from office of Lyndon Johnson, and the election of Richard Nixon. Gaillard quotes historian Todd Gitlin in commenting on the rise of violence and disenchantment as the decade dragged on: 'Rage was becoming the common coin of American culture (Esposito, 2018).
Rain shadow.
"Your heart traps mine as summits catch storms. Call this to calm the rain shadow. What will remain?" From poem The Same Mountain Twice.
A storm of witchcraft : The Salem trials and the American experience.
"Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters." Publisher
References
Baker, E. (2015). A storm of witchcraft : The Salem trials and the American experience. Oxford University Press.
FROM: Mattias Olshausen BOOK: A Gentleman in Moscow AUTHOR: Amor Towles
This book is about a Russian count, Alexander Rostov, whom a
Bolshevik court sentenced to permanent house arrest in 1922.
The catch is that Rostov is living in an upscale hotel near the Kremlin. He spends the next 30 years of his life there, witnessing a great societal change from a unique vantage point.
A Gentleman in Moscow is an excellent read for the times we live in. It serves as a reminder to make the most of one's circumstances,
rather than to live in bitterness or regret. Perhaps the most central
theme, though, is the value of unexpected and unlikely friendships.
Rostov's open and accepting nature is the greatest asset in his
confinement, as it leads him to establish close relationships
with the hotel's employees, an inquisitive nine-year-old guest,
and even a Soviet commissar. I recommend this book to
anyone who needs a break from the news and wants to believe in the best in humanity.
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