history, language, and contemporary culture
Discussion Topics

Speech After Long Silence : Of Poetry and Consciousness
by Noga Arikha
Delivered at the 2005 Campbell Corner Reading

Three Discreet Easy Pieces Launching Debate
by Elfie Raymond
(Providence, RI, REALIA Conference 2004)

Pakistan's Foreign Policy:
Responding to current global and regional dynamics

by Riaz H. Khokhar
Foreign Secretary of Pakistan

The New Century
by Linsey Abrams
In commemoration of 9/11/2001

Manifestations of the Supernatural According to Simone Weil
by Diogenes Allen
> Simone Weil and the Intellect of Grace
by Matt Matros

Martha Nussbaum, Poet's Defender
by Alan Jacobs
(FirstThings)

Where is Solon When We Need Him?
by Elf S. Raymond
(Bretton Woods, REALIA Conference, 2002)
> Applicability of the Hippocratic Healing Method, a response by Niki Clements

Post 9-11
The Philosopher of Islamic Terror
With God on His Side
I am Iraq
(New York Times Magazine)

Agonies of Globalization
Bush vs. Women
(New York Times)
Pain Swallowed by Silence
(FAO Newsletter Land, Food, and People)
The Free-Trade Fix
(New York Times Magazine)

On Ontological Parity and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by Janna Turoff

Panic in Proportion: The Case for "Open Source" Science
by Shuba Gopal

Aftershocks: Reflections on the Implications
of September 11
by W. Michael Reisman

Shakespeare and Hegel: a Confrontation
by Jean Goldschmidt Kempton

Plagiarism
by David Baker
An Elegy about the Adolescent Sovereign Self

Essays

Speech After Long Silence : Of Poetry and Consciousness
by Noga Arikha

Folkloristic Commentary
by Joseph Campbell

Manifestations of the Supernatural According to Simone Weil
by Diogenes Allen
> Simone Weil and the Intellect of Grace
by Matt Matros

Tragedy in the Philosophical Age of the Greeks: Aristotle's Reply to Nietzsche
by Michael Davis

The Arca Foederis at the Abbey of Saint-Denis
by Niki Clements

excerpts from Reading with Diana
by Kathleen Hill

A Path Out of Middletown:
The Life of Helen Merrell Lynd, 1896-1982

by Christine Biancheria & Susan Frietsche

An Iliad for Our Time: Walcott's Caribbean Epic Omeros
by William Shullenberger

Science and Metaphysics in the Three Religions of the Book by Toby E. Huff

Figuration and Secularization: The Movement of History by Meira Kensky

Forms of Representation in Hindu-Javanese Temple Sculpture
by Kristine Marx

The Figure of the Reader in Ann Lauterbach's and Susan Howe's Poetry
by James McCorkle

Democratic Intimations of the Continental Reformation
by Elfie Raymond
>  Keeping the Promise
by Janna Turoff, a response

Signs of Plenty: The Altar of Verdun
by Elfie Raymond

Conversing with History:
> Introductory Remarks to Bill Moyer's 1989 Sarah Lawrence Faculty Panel on Joseph Campbell

> Snippets from the 1996 Helen Lynd Colloquium at Sarah Lawrence

Essay Contest Archive




Biographies of Judges and Contributors

 

What Words Can Do

Letter to My Aunt and other poetry
by Laura McKee

Han Shan at Bear Cove
by William Shullenberger

The First Language and other poetry
by Alison Watkins

Avesnes: Reading In Place
by Kathleen Hill


Poetry

David Baker
Eavan Boland
Jennifer Chang
Anthony Deaton
Nicholas Giosa
Kate Knapp Johnson
Ann Lauinger
Phillis Levin
James McCorkle
Frank Polite
Eric Rawson
Jon C. Tribble
Connie Voisine
Alison Watkins
Jake Adam York


2006 Poetry Contest
Winners:
Veronica Patterson
John Pursley III



Distinguished Entries:

Lynn Aarti Chandhok
Rebecca Kavaler

Poetry Contest Archive