Sharing the Darkness
I wake with a start at midnight. A nightbird striking the window? A bat in the eaves? Maybe someone in the theater of my sleep gave me a nudge—someone I don’t know in waking life. It is cloudy and...
View ArticleBerklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays
“In this class, we study the contribution of women composers and performers across history, genres, and styles—a necessary endeavor since women creators have been systematically overlooked in the...
View ArticleUsing Galaxy Clusters to Search for the Most Distant Objects in the...
On November 25, 1915, Albert Einstein published his famous theory of General Relativity, which is a geometrical representation of gravity. In this work, Einstein described how spacetime curves in the...
View ArticleCamelot Vampires Unleashed: 12 Poems in Traditional Forms from Pat Pattison’s...
Each year Berklee participates in the Intercollegiate Poetry Festival, featuring poetry from students at universities and colleges around the area. This year’s event took place on Monday, April 3rd at...
View ArticleFUSION Presents a Raucous Night of Performed Poetry: Berklee’s Spoken Word &...
The Slam poets represent a cross-section of the Spoken Word & Slam Poetry class, taught by Michael Heyman. This is brave, bold, head-on, powerpuffed, chuffed, exposed, raw, beautiful, hilarious,...
View ArticleTuning in to Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony
“Not since the first Manhattan performance of Parsifal [in 1903],” Time magazine declared, “had there been such a buzz of American anticipation over a piece of music.”[1] That piece was Dmitri...
View ArticleCaramel and Chocolate Can Both Have Sea Salt
“As we learn our way around this environment, either we hide our original word habits, or we completely surrender our own voice, hoping to please those who will never respect anyone different from...
View ArticleEscape Velocity
[This post contains video, click to play] Did you ever watch a group of children playing “Red Rover?” Arms linked up for strength, they chant, “Red Rover, Red Rover, let Sally come over,” and Sally’s...
View Article2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Carl Phillips: Two New Poems, exclusive to FUSION
Buried Treasure I used to think of tenderness as a kind of spindle we could both, each differently, revolve around together. Likewise, until not so long ago, I still believed that keeping a lamp on at...
View ArticleKata, a novel excerpt
The following is an excerpt from my novel, Kata, which tells the story of a deteriorating friendship between two women—one Croatian, one American—living in present-day Sarajevo. The American, Yancey,...
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