Assistant Professor Jennifer Firestone’s new publication is out! In Gates & Fields, Jennifer Firestone conjures Emily Dickinson to serve as the Virgil of this brave... Read More
When Robin Mookerjee died last year, in May 2016, he left behind a considerable amount of unpublished writing, including poems and short stories. Lucy... Read More
The Literary Studies department is proud to announce the inaugural Robin Mookerjee award, which will honor a student whose creativity and passion for literature have some... Read More
Rufi Thorpe (Class of 2006, Eugene Lang College) received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2009, and is the author of two... Read More
Emily Gould (Class of 2004, Eugene Lang College) is the author of a memoir ( And the Heart Says Whatever , 2010) and a... Read More
Claudius Speaks is accepting submissions for our Spring 2017 issue: Flight. Claudius Speaks is a platform for emerging voices to challenge the mind and move the heart. They seek personal... Read More
Tikkun magazine is currently recruiting interns to work with their editorial team for June-August and September to December 2017 and January to May, 2018.... Read More
Fathima Sheikh (Class of 2019) shares her thoughts on the conversation between Robert Antoni (Pan-European MFA), author of Blessed is the Fruit, and Caryl... Read More
October 10, 2019
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
October 7, 2016
By Elaine Savory On October 22nd, Literary Studies is hosting a one day symposium on a very special book, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, which has a very special birthday this year. Published in 1966, this year the novel is fifty years old, so to speak. Our celebration is one in a series across the world which only proves how extensively this work is loved and respected. […]
Assistant Professor Jennifer Firestone’s new publication is out!
In Gates & Fields, Jennifer Firestone conjures Emily Dickinson to serve as the Virgil of this brave lyric sequence, guiding the poems through the fierce silences at the heart of grief. Firestone is a poet who feels her way forward, and her spare language and intense images cast a vital, vitalizing light across the landscape of loss.
—Susan Howe
Wondrously strange, eerily healing, like an overheard incantation, these clipped lyrics build sound relationships and repetitions into a conversation among the elements—one that makes them somehow even more elemental, even more essential. Firestone weaves a beautifully haunted atmosphere, enthralling and captivating. We are there with her in the carriage—toward eternity.
—Cole Swensen
Reading these spare poems makes me feel like I am participating in them, overhearing them, such is their suggestiveness and the intimacy of their utterances.
—Kazim Ali
What holds us in is often not what we imagine. Jennifer Firestone knows it better than any of us and her new book is a template of the heavenly earth. Many thanks for this book’s dreamy sluice into another version of our world. If poets can reignite lost eyes on the path, Firestone is our champion. A poet we need, a poet who can show the poet in all who imagine and read.
—CA Conrad
Firestone’s quiescent elegy is set in another time. Time of death, time of memory, a time of pellucid borderline consciousness. Do we wake or sleep? Poignant, fragile subtleties of existence collect here—particulars transcend and magnify, as in “Guilt and other small planets colliding.” The quiet power of Gates & Fields grows on you, over you.
—Anne Waldman
