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    Paula Coria

Prose

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

Nathan Greenslit

I’m agnostic about the brain. I won’t stoop so far as to say that I don’t believe in it. But I’ve never experienced it — not mine, in any case. I’m not trying to be coy or obtuse. It’s just that one’s brain cannot be experienced as can, say, one’s foot. You can feel your foot; you cannot feel your brain. Strangely enough this organ is entirely outside the realm of direct experience. I say strange because we invoke it so often and so confidently to explain everything from learning to depression to love! Imagine yourself in front of a stove. How do you know whether it’s hot? You could appeal to conventional knowledge (with apologies for the oven pun) — “stoves get hot when they are on and I can see that this one is on” (maybe because you …

Bella’s World

Montserrat Turriza

Gardens and Psychedelia

Pat Pattison

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

Lama Elizabeth Monson

What’s in a Landscape?

Wayne Wild

A Comic’s Relief

Chloe Southern

Student Short Story Contest Winners

History Of My Heart: Opening and Closing Passages

Robert Pinsky

Promise Me You’ll Hide a Part of Yourself

Darcy Reeder

Music

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

Luciana Souza

Edited text of Video Being at home has had me thinking. Thinking about how everything was interrupted. Almost violently, in some cases. If you were a student living in the dorms, you had to very quickly pack your things and return home. Some of you had to travel overseas on those long distances that separated you from your home country. You left so quickly. You perhaps didn’t have a chance to complete your projects. Maybe you were working on a recording. For you seniors, your graduation was imminent, and you were about to walk onstage and shake hands with President Brown, as I did many years ago. Actually, Lee Berk was President of Berklee when I was at school. You may have left without saying proper goodbyes to your friends, your peers, your professors. You packed up, you left, you …

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

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

Which Way do the Trade Winds Blow?

Rick McLaughlin

T. Allen LeVines

Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto

Aliya Cycon Project

Interview by Xingyu

Poetry

For He Was a Great Man

Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus

For he was a great man thrown & pulled toward the flames
For the flames were familiar for they would seal his story
For he was taken down face down body down to account
For his soul stood up & noticed the chariot song descending
For he pleaded as the fiery metals coiled upon his ebony skin
For he was our Renaissance our thirst our vessel for Freedom
For they said he was our father our son our symbol our body
For a choir assembled in the streets in every furnace of witness

For he called upon his mother as he called upon the Source
For he was not your Negro he was not your Black cut down
For he was the ancestral ship burning through waves & chains
For he was the future no one had prophesied the Now & the Is…

“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

9 New Poets, 9 New Poems

Berklee Students

Charades and Four Other Poems

Robert Carr

Social Distance and Two Other Poems

Eileen Cleary

“The Longest Day” & Two Other Poems

Cristopher Gonzalez

Film

Art

Boston Sequence

Alexandria Pierre Etienne

Street photographer Matt Stuart inspired me to observe the streets of city life in a different way and to approach a subject/scene unnoticed without disrupting the motions of life. But the most challenging of all was patience. Figuring out the right time to capture a moment is both exciting and challenging. Sometimes the most magical things happen and you just come back home empty handed.

Paola Calatayud-Serna

Three Paintings

Magdalene Coleman

Natalie Haas

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas

Philip Barlow

The Garden@FUSION

Features

Creative Nonfiction

Essential Singing Approaches for Contemporary Styles

Jeannie Gagné, Professor, Voice, Berklee College of Music

From Valencia

BTOT

Interviews

Events

Celtic FUSION 2013

Irish Photos

Fionán O’Connell

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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.