Shelley Martin

Oct 11, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Claire Potter |Hannah Burns |Shelley Martin

In Episode 16 of Multi-Verse, Devon Walker-Figueroa reads her poem “Private Lessons,” in which a dying man determines that his young pupil must become a prima ballerina, and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about the uses of silence, breaking Dante’s rhyme scheme, and what it means to be haunted by lessons long since over. “What use?” her dancer wonders, “in maligning his methods now?”This is not your grandfather’s ghost story.

Oct 10, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Hannah Burns |Shelley Martin |Mitchell Abidor

In 2016, white evangelical Christians showed up at the polls in force for Donald J. Trump, part of a diverse movement that defied expectations to sweep him into the White House. In the past decade, scholars and journalists have spilled a lot of ink on what seemed initially like a strange affinity of highly religious people for a base, immoral and violent man.