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  • Sharing the Darkness

    Carolyn Forché

Words

Reflections

Lisa Luckenbach

  Feel confident, beautiful and empowered in your new wig, the instructions read. In the mirror a stranger stares back—weak, powerless. I see her ghostly image. She looks raw, bound, and scared. I sit in the pretend “barbershop” in our kitchen. My mom and two young daughters gather around me, while my husband shaves the last patchy clumps of hair from my scalp. Tears overflow in my mother’s eyes—she wipes them quickly. I remove the towel from my shoulders and hold the mirror up close. “There,” I say. “Not so bad, is it? Mommy’s a fierce woman warrior now.” I bend my elbow and make a muscle. The girls giggle. I have to laugh for them. I have to be strong for them. “Just give me a few minutes, okay?” I walk into my bathroom, close the door, sit on …

Fire and Rust:

a Suite of Poems from Pat Pattison’s Poetry Workshop

Hamilton The Musical and Political Reception of Art

Emma Pawl

3 Poems

Leana Borsuk

Charlestown High

Joseph Hughes

Creativity

Bella Komodromos

Reduced: (She/Her) Why I Struggle With My Pronouns

Natashia Deón

Music

Letter for Berklee

Steve Vai

Greetings enthusiastic music students, and congratulations. You have chosen the entertainment industry as your profession. I have been in it for the last forty-seven years, and I can tell you it’s truly a fantastic industry. The number of options and fields to explore in the entertainment industry is vast, and the Arts are paramount to the mental health of any culture. We need your brilliance! Your entire career experience in any industry is 100% joined at the hip with the quality of your attitude and your perspective on what you do. This great industry is here to serve you, and you to serve it. When you make a deliberate decision to see the best in everyone in it, you will have a supreme experience. As you start to feel a pull towards a particular field in this industry, you will …

Where Is Jazz Going?: Reissues, Jazz Industry, and the Future of Jazz

Jiwon Kwon

Sustaining Notes: From Grammy Award Winner Brazilian Singer Luciana Souza To Berklee Students

Luciana Souza

A Beautiful View from the Berklee Bridge, Flowing with Music, Energy, and Glimpses of a Fruitful Future

A Reflection by Dr. Bill Banfield

Music in Islamic Philosophy

Peter Adamson

Art

The Musician’s Keen Eye: Photographs with Notes

by Dave Hollender

 

Polynesian Visual Art

Tevita Latu & Taniela Petelo

Why this is not a pipe

Monica Fernandez

Mexico: A Surrealist Country.

Monica Fernandez

Photos by Yizhak Carmona

The Garden@FUSION

Film

What Big Teeth You Have

Raven Baksh

Stuck Between Stations: Reflections on The Eclipse & In Bruges

Sean Brennan

Triloka—Three Realms

Composed by Bruno Råberg

Purple Money

Emily Estefan

Berklee Student Screenplays

Rub Meat

Michael Heyman, PhD, DDS, SFPS. The Fizzbert P. Pinkbottom Endowed Chair of Nonsense at Berklee College of Music (FPPECNBCM) at a Berklee Poetry Slam

Features

Music, Gender, and Society: Outstanding Student Essays

Beth Denisch

Capturing Berklee’s Stories: The Berklee Oral History Project

Sofía Becerra-Licha, Archivist, Berklee Archives

Exploring New Teaching Techniques with Case Studies

Alexandre Perrin (Valencia)

Contests

Composition Department & FUSION Poetry Contest Winner

Student Fiction Contest Winners: 3 Stories

1st Place, The Umbrellas: Emmanuel Choi

Composition Department & FUSION Poetry Contest Winner

Archives

BERKLEE COMMUNITY

FUSION Vol 4

POETRY

Interviews

Events

Maeve Gilchrist

an Morrigan

Irish Step: Holland Raper

FUSION, Berklee’s global arts magazine, publishes writing in all genres, photography, video, and music by students, faculty, staff, and alumni from across the U.S. and our international communities. We feature distinguished guest artists, including three U.S. Poet Laureates, a U.K. Poet Laureate, National Book Award finalists, and writers whose awards include NEA, NEH, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellowships, a PEN Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.