Nov. 2 marked this year’s Cromwell Day, an annual celebration of Otelia and Adelaide Cromwell, the first Black graduate and first Black professor at Smith, respectively. The theme this year was “Finding Joy on Our Journey to Racial Justice,” adding to the semester’s focus on finding joy in sorrow while on the path toward justice. The Cromwell Day Committee — a group of students, staff, and faculty — decided on this theme together, which gave a sense of continuity after poet Ross Gay’s visit in September.
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The last time Ross Gay visited Smith College was in the fall of 2016 when he was drafting “The Book of Delights” which was published in 2019. Since then, the United States has plunged into a new political landscape and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forever altered the world.
For Barbara Kellum, Professor of Art, teaching at Smith College was “love at first sight.” She began teaching at Smith in the mid-1980s following the completion of her PhD at Harvard University. Moving to Cambridge for graduate school was her first experience on the East Coast as a California native, but she hasn’t looked back since, calling it a “revelation” to be here. This year, Kellum has been honored with the Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching.
Tethering Groove, the Mount Holyoke dance department’s senior performance, showcases pieces choreographed by five students and featuring dancers of many backgrounds, even including dancers from other schools. The two-night dance performance garnered an audience from across the Five College Consortium as well — with students from Smith, Mount Holyoke, and UMass in attendance.
On 21 March, poet Franny Choi was welcomed as a reader at the Boutelle Day Poetry Center with a large, vibrant audience as she read her poems of finding love and light in the despair of current events and generational trauma.
Kicking off this season’s readings at the Boutelle Day Poetry Center on Feb. 28, Jennifer Chang brought a calm but assertive energy with her writings of war, nature and family. Her soft spoken tone was evocative of childhood memories and reflections of trauma with poems such as “Again A Solstice” and “Dorothy Wordsworth.”
The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center hosted the second guest poet of the Fall 2021 Reading Series, Jenny Johnson, a writer known for her exploration of queer identity in relation to nature and reality.
“I thought, my path is calling me, and I couldn’t refuse it,” mused Tiana Clark, on her realization that she was meant to be a poet while she worked at the Schomburg Center for Black Culture, en route to being a historian.
It was the best of times for the president of Smith College adorned with her Louboutin’s, it was the worst of times for her students,…
This post is part of the 2021 Spring Translation Marathon for student translators
Translated from English by Jeanne Cho
NBC뉴스에 따르면 2020년 한 해 동안 아시아·태평양계를 겨냥한 증오 범죄는 150% 이상 증가했다. 중국 우한에서 시작된 것으로 알려진 코로나19 팬데믹과 도널드 트럼프 전 미 대통령의 ‘중국 바이러스’와 같은 발언은 아시아계 미국인들에 대한 증오 범죄와 인종차별을 부추겼고, 이와 같은 현상은 바이든 대통령의 취임 후에도 가라앉지 않고 있다.