New Voices, Traditional Forms: Student Sonnets & Sapphic Stanzas

Words

Cornel West Interview

with Teodros Kiros

Teodros Kiros: I am privileged beyond description to attract the attention of one of the leading philosophers in the world today, Prof. Cornel West of Harvard University. Professor West has spoken at countless universities; his teaching positions have taken him from Princeton to Harvard to the seminary and back to Harvard again. Introducing him would take the entire hour. We are going to listen to the prolific contributions of a gifted orator, an extraordinary writer, and most importantly, the type of intellectual who walks the talk, who lives what he preaches. We are talking about a man who treats each and every human being whom he meets with absolute dignity and respect. I’ve been observing this professor for a few years now, and what is tantalizing about his character is that anybody who approaches him gets his maximum attention. He …

Gardens and Psychedelia

Pat Pattison

The Poetics of Natural Being: Buddhism, Creativity, and Nature

Lama Elizabeth Monson

A New Lens on Old Film: A Twenty-Something’s Angle on Art House Cinema

Isabella Komodromos

“Killing Time,” and Other Poems

Cristopher Gonzalez

New Voices, Traditional Forms: Student Sonnets & Sapphic Stanzas

Five Poems

Lindsey O’Neill

Music

Music in Islamic Philosophy

Peter Adamson

Despite his importance as the first Muslim intellectual to make use of ideas from the Greek philosophical tradition, we don’t know much about the life of al-Kindi. We do know roughly when he lived (the ninth century CE), that he was descended from a companion of the Prophet, and that his father was governor of Kufa. Beyond that we have only a few anecdotes about him. But one of them, preserved for us by the the historian al-Qifti, is well worth recounting. It seems there was a rich merchant who had taken up against al-Kindi and went about slandering his name. Then the merchant’s son fell ill, paralyzed and unable to speak. It was both a personal and financial blow, because the son was in charge of keeping track of the books for the merchant’s business and vital information was …

Musical Setting of Sara Pirkle Hughes’s “What Hurts”

Neil Olmstead

The String Revolution: Beux’s Etude pour violin solo & The Responsibility of the Composer/Performer

Sean Brennan

Against The Odds: an Exploration of Bulgarian Rhythms

Vessela Stoyanova

Art

Pastoral Mosaics: Journeys Through Landscapes Rural

Brian Michael Barbeito

This work is from an ongoing photo essay. I am currently documenting nature walking in Southern Ontario, Canada. Among the environments explored are woodlands, farms, open fields, but also the deeper forests, off path, where people such as dog walkers, nature enthusiasts, landscape photographers, and even weekend and serious hikers don’t venture. There are hidden streams, strange trees, untouched wildflowers, and more, which provide continual inspiration for writing and, of course, photography.