November 3, 2021

Audiences Are Ready for Change with Caroline and Fire

When it opened on Broadway at the tail end of the 2003-4 season after an Off-Broadway run at the Public Theater, Caroline, or Change was overshadowed by the rivalry between Wicked and Avenue Q. This difficult, strange and complex musical by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Violet) about the relationship …

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Trish Hopkinson: “Uprooted”

Trish Hopkinson, “Uprooted,” 2021 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize Finalist selected by Judge Mariano Zaro This poem, articulated in perfectly paced tercets, is an exercise of specificity: “My mother pulled out the rhubarb”. This simple action, intensified throughout the poem, becomes a symbol of the relationship between humankind and nature. Without leaving the confined space of …

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