Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon] (1846–52), daguerreotype, 2019.47, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel / Courtesy o…
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June 8, 2020Photo: Quentin Lagache / Unsplash In this story of lengthy quarantine due to an unnamed virus, a woman sneaks into the mountain to collect ferns—many ferns. Simultaneously evoking life un…
May 18, 2020From left to right, prose winner Jamie Lauer and writer Pía Barros, poetry winner Russell Karrick, poet Lucía Estrada. Jamie Lauer and Russell Karrick recently were named as the recipients of…
September 16, 2014Photo: Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle via Wikimedia CommonsMany works of Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta have formed the foundations of further artistic endeavors, including and beyond their own…
April 22, 2013Retrato de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. por Miguel Cabrea, 1750. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–95) was born in San Miguel Nepantla, Tepetli…
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