Rita Banerjee

YouTube video by Sharon Gelman Ellen Bryant Voigt interview excerpt

In 2016, MFA Alumna Sharon Gelman (Fiction, 2016) sat down to interview Ellen Bryant Voigt for her video-essay and anthology of interviews, 200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World (Chronicle, 2017), which can be viewed here:

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Honoring the Life and Legacy of Ellen Bryant Voigt - MFA Program for Writers | Warren Wilson

With great sadness, I write to announce the passing of Ellen Bryant Voigt, the great poet, educator, and architect of the MFA Program for Writers. Please join us in celebrating her incredible life, legacy, mentorship, and vision.

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If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

I think these videos are going to break through and upset voters…..

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Supreme Court once again eyes overturning key part of Voting Rights Act The Supreme Court is considering a Louisiana redistricting case that could determine whether states are required to draw majority Black and Latino districts.

The Supreme Court is considering a case that could eliminate a key provision in the Voting Rights Act and reduce minority representation in Congress, reshaping the House in a way that hasn’t been seen in decades.

Perspective. Symbolism. Like a science fiction nightmare. The United States most sacred dwelling, destroyed.

The Treasury Department instructs employees not to share demolition photos of the White House’s East Wing www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Diwali deepa lamps in two concentric circles.

Happy #Diwali!! 🪔🌟✨

Respect to those who got here first.

Studying *Annie Hall* in HS led me minor in film in college. Rest in Power, Diane Keaton 🌟💖 ✨

Colin Burrow · World-Beating Buster-Upper: Muriel Spark’s Wickedness The characteristic flavour of Spark’s writing was that of a Catholic ironist, for whom the terrible and the laughable...

‘Every writer​ needs a bastard within, otherwise they would never make time to write. Usually the bastard is allowed to shout at maximum volume in their correspondence.’

Colin Burrow reads Muriel Spark’s letters: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Happy Mid-Autumn Moon Festival & Lakshmi Puja! 🌕🐇🌟✨

#お月見

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?” ~ Vita Sackville-West

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Virtual Speaker Series: Rita Banerjee. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Virtual Speaker Series: Rita Banerjee. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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YouTube video by Ethereal My First Kolkata Durga Puja| Durga Puja Filmic

শুভ বিজয়া ! 🥳🍀💖🎉✨
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Join our director @ritabanerjee.bsky.social on Tuesday, October 7 for her lecture on "How to Survive as a Writer under American Capitalism." Hosted by the @uofnorthdakota.bsky.social English department, the lecture will be on Zoom at 7PM Central Time. Register here: ritabanerjee.com/2025/10/01/h...

Hilarie Burton Says ‘Small Acts of Resistance’ Can Help Combat 'Increasingly Routine' Book Bans (Exclusive) On Oct. 1, PEN America published their annual report on book banning and censorship in the U.S. for the 2024-2025 school year. Actress and author Hilarie Burton, who is working with PEN America during...

A new report PEN America report reveals increasing “normalization” of book bans in the United States

“This isn't something that's happening in just one pocket of our country,” actress and author @hilariebmorgan.bsky.social tells PEOPLE. “This is a wide sweeping problem.” people.com/hilarie-burt...

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

So honored to be part of "Sign & Breath: Voice and the Literary Tradition" (ed. Shanta Lee and Philip Brady) -- a new critical anthology that asks "What is poetry? What defines voice?"

You can pre-order Sign & Breath here:
etruscanpress.org/product/sign...

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The MFA Program for Writers celebrated its annual winter residency this past January, & our #MFA Faculty lectures are now online. If you're #writing & navigating through difficult news cycles, check out my talk "The #Poetry & Power of #Witness" here: www.warrenwilsonmfa.org/product/rita...

We just wrapped our MFA Program for Writers Summer Residency @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social & our #MFA lectures are now online. If you are struggling w. difficult moments in your #creativewriting, check out my opening talking "Writing Towards Psychic Heat" here: www.warrenwilsonmfa.org/product/rita...

Delighted to be reading from my personal essay “American Caste” & presenting on “How to Survive as a Writer under American Capitalism” for the University of North Dakota on Tuesday, October 7 at 7 pm CT via Zoom. Join through the QR Code.

#amwriting #amreading #creativenonfiction #AmericanWriters

Carol Burnett Plays On The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.

Wonderful, rich profile of the divine Carol Burnett by the fabulous
@rachsyme.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission which said the online giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships, and made it difficult t...

Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the FTC, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so.

Thank you, Joe Biden. apnews.com/article/amaz...

A collage of hundreds of canvassers from dozens of canvass launches.

Last week, thousands of volunteers knocked on more than 100,000 doors across the five boroughs — the first time we've crossed that single week milestone since June.

We can't stop now: zohranfornyc.com/sixweeks

Zohran with his hands in the prayer position, while Spike Lee bangs on the wall behind him.

Zohran, Spike Lee and a big group of Arsenal fans outside Spike's office.

Zohran and Spike Lee in front of the "Do The Right Thing" mural in Fort Greene.

Caught today’s @arsenalfc.bsky.social match with Spike Lee in Fort Greene (not a sentence I ever thought I'd get to write).

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

On the Party of Narcissistic Inequality Something that's true of all the narcissists I've known and witnessed is that they're unhappy and they can't recognize that this is an entrenched condition. They think it's due to something someone just did, and if they punish, intimidate, coerce that person to change their ways then they'll be happy:

Another way to put it is: they are obsessed with the idea that with enough repression and punishment, they can create their peaceable kingdom--on the corpses of their enemies and the corpse of the US Constitution. Behind that is the fantasy that a wholly homogenous USA can be created....

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.