Last year….or maybe it was the year before…I was asked to contribute to a special issue of American Music on the future of American music scholarship. At the time, I was working on my Julia Perry chapter for Expanding the …
You or Someone You Love by Hannah Matthews. 5/5 A beautifully written and compassionate chronicle of abortion care in America–who gets abortions, who doesn’t or isn’t allowed to, who the caregivers are, what their own abortion stories are. As an …
On May 13, I’ll be leading a gentle, all-generative workshop on writing about and with music. Full details below. Register here! TIME: Saturday, May 13, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. CST/CDT PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The …
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Protectress and I are in Kirkus again! McKenzi Thi Murphy interviewed me for this profile.
Listen to Michael Carney, music director of Good Company: A Vocal Ensemble, talk with WCLV’s John Mills about the ensemble’s upcoming program Lost in the Stars and my piece with composer Jean Root, “Past the Moon”! I heard a recording …
Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic by g. haron davis. 3/5 A much-needed anthology of 14 stories about magic trans and nb teens–teens who find their magic, are exiled for their magic, use their magic for good, use their …
My poem “Jessica Lights the Candles,” written while I was doing scholarly research on The Merchant of Venice and informed by the play, is now available to read here in Empyrean Magazine online. You can also find my poem “Revolution …
I’m delighted and honored to be awarded the 2023 Virgil Thomson Fellowship by the Society for American Music for “Analyzing Rosa Rio’s Accompaniments for Silent Film,” which is a part of my larger book project titled Race and Gender in …
A History of the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin. 4/5 In preparation for this novel, I read the author’s previous epic work, Laurus. As some reviewers have already mentioned, this is a continuation of that novel, and the author’s storytelling style …
Writing About and With Music: An All-Genre Generative Workshop After reading a few poems about music, we’ll spend time listening to several different works and writing as we listen. INSTRUCTOR: Kendra Preston Leonard, Ph.D. TIME: Saturday, March 4, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 …
March 4: Learn to write about music in your creative writing! Read more »