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China's New LeftBy Pankaj Mishra of New York Times One day earlier this year I met Wang Hui at the Thinker’s Cafe near Tsinghua University in Be […]

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Aaron Coleman’s dissection of this shipwreck and the way he not only describes it but, but places the reader within the environment is impressive. Detail by detail he crafts an image and a sensory experience that […]

American Football was very interesting to me. The line “I wanted to be a trophy before I wanted to be a man” hits at a point seldom made in American sports. Especially at the professional level, the vast majority […]

In the poem  “A Fire She Loved”, Aaron Coleman depicts a woman getting drunk on whiskey and reflecting back to her job of feeding people. Coleman shows that this woman prioritizes drinking as it was “Heavier an […]

I first learned about the art of translation from working under Prof. Bourne. I think Coleman described my understanding of it well. It’s that he could walk away from a translation more easily than his own work […]

After attending the Poetry Reading by Aaron Coleman, I was intrigued by a multitude of things and greatly moved by his readings of his poetry. Prior to hearing him read them, it was slightly difficult for me to […]

There are many connections between the poems that Aaron Coleman wrote and read out loud and the themes that we have talked about in class. One of the connections between the poems and the class is the theme of […]

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In “Very Many Hands,” Aaron Coleman establishes the landscape for his book, “Threat Come Close,” a collection of poems, by understanding the stories and experiences of mig […]

I was intrigued by “Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras, March, 1864” and “Negro Reverend of an All White Church” and the similarities between the two of them. Both are persona poems about Coleman […]

I was so excited that Aaron Coleman chose to recite many of the poems we read in class yesterday, including “A Fire She Loved” and “Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864).” These two […]

In an interview with Alive Mag, Aaron Coleman states, “When I’m writing, the idea is to look so closely at the situation or the feeling that that stands before any concerns of being representative. But at the […]

After listening to the poetry reading by Aaron Coleman, I was intrigued by 2 of his poems, Viciousness in Ends and A Fire She Loved. What I found especially interesting about Viciousness in Ends was how he […]

In both films, we see a binary within black masculinity: religious and secular. Religious characters, though respected by the community, are judged by the more radical black men because of their tie to the white […]

I understand why the little boy in The Sky is Grey gives the preacher so much grief. The white slave owners were not benevolent in introducing Christianity to their slaves. They taught them a very specific kind of […]