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  • Sharing the Darkness

    Carolyn Forché

Words

Introduction To Trans Literature and Two Other Poems

Stephanie Burt

Before The Wedding That man you’re standing next to…For so long I looked up to him like a god. You’re immured in conversation And when he smiles back at you now, my heart Skips, and not for him. Tonight I need armor to look at you; when I want To tell you how we should be together, no human Language comes out. I have known this feeling That warms, then scalds, me Before, when you and I touch: it’s the best And the worst— I’m brittle tin, I’m paler than drought grass, I shake, my eyes turn black, and I can’t see you Any more, and yet I do. I am going to survive this experience Even if it’s like coming back from the dead. Still, I wish I could be taking your hand now, though my Horns and tail …

For He Was a Great Man

Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus

“Lightning Decides” & Three Other Poems

Andrew Motion

9 Poems from Poetry 2

Terza Rima, Italian & English Sonnets, Free Verse

Full Circle Sail

Daniel Picker

Poems in Feet & Poems on Feet: Readings & Performances by Berklee Students

How Real Is Your Brain?: a Playful Warning About a Science of Our Selves

Nathan Greenslit

Music

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

Neil Olmstead

“What Hurts” is based on a poem by Sara Pirkle Hughes. It is the first piece in a song cycle of five art songs for mezzo soprano and piano that I composed within the last year and recorded this past August. This piece questions the reasonableness of our efforts to forget pain, physical or emotional, in order to “get on with life.” I was inspired by this viewpoint and also by the overall rhythm and form of the piece. The poem is a “pantoum,” a verse in quatrains, in which the second and fourth lines are repeated as the first and third lines of the following quatrain. Sara gave me permission to omit a section of the poem and to change the wording slightly to satisfy the music. Although such omissions are considered taboo in some circles, this flexibility is …

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

Which Way do the Trade Winds Blow?

Rick McLaughlin

T. Allen LeVines

Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto

Art

Soundreaming

Ewa Doroszenko & Jacek Doroszenko

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. This city will always pursue you. You’ll walk the same streets, (…) Constantine P. Cavafy     The Soundreaming is an interactive Internet presentation that takes the form of an audio-visual archive of locations around Barcelona. This website documents out site-specific compositions and sound impressions. Recording the dreams and both natural and human designed sounds during the expedition we created sound compositions derived from this material. Sound installations are complemented with a unique electronic audio composition, mixed with sounds recorded in Barcelona and lo-fi music.     When traveling, most people take photographs and  use them to communicate a sense of what the experience of being in that place might have been like. However, the acoustic environment can provide a tremendous amount of the sense of place and feeling of a location in a different way than photographs. In our artistic practice soundscapes are playing the role of images. The …

Aldon Baker

Art of Absence

Simon Patch and Mary Sarpong

Boston Sequence

Alexandria Pierre Etienne

Three Paintings

Magdalene Coleman

The Garden@FUSION

Film

Scottish Fiddle & Harp

Jenna Moynihan and Mairi Chaimbeul

When I’m Old, music video

Rumle Sieling Langdal Jensen

Croíbhualadh (Heartbeat)

Louis De Paor

Nanos

Music by Sara Ontaneda | Video by Callie Huber

The Fringe

Bliain Le Baisteach

Sean Taylor & Mikael Fernström

Features

Polyrhythm Clocks

Jerry Leake

The Hidden Curriculum – Definitions and Uses

Kevin Block-Schwenk, Associate Professor of Liberal Arts (Economics & Math)

BTOT 2016 Synergy Presentation

Co-leaders Gail McArthur-Browne and Helen Sherrah-Davies with artist collaborator Jim Zingarelli, Gordon College.

Contests

FUSION Magazine Faculty Photography Contest and Exhibition Winners

Winning Stories: FUSION Student Fiction Contest

Archives

Creative Nonfiction: 2014

FILM STUDIES

INTERVIEW

Interviews

Events

Deadstring Ensemble: Celtic FUSION 2012

Celtic FUSION 2012: Jenna Moynihan:

Celtic FUSION 2012: Holland Raper, Ellen & Drew Story

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.