Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture
During her Notations lecture in the Lower Gallery at Zoellner Arts Center, poet Brenda Shaughnessy posed a question the audience could not answer: what would the world look like if it were taken over by octopi? Shaugnessy’s fifth poetry collection, The Octopus Museum, explores such a world. She admitted that she didn’t plan for the…
Lori Goldstein, a member of the graduating class of 1995, began her career in both editing and journalism. Some of her first jobs included editing technology and public policy journals for Cutter Consortium, a business-technology advisory firm, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. However, the monotony of this style of writing lead to Goldstein’s realization…
Looking around Baker Hall, I couldn’t help but notice the diverse array of faces in the sea of people filling the auditorium to maximum capacity. A white elderly couple sits to my right, relieved to finally have a break after waiting in line for almost two hours. To my left, a Black woman proclaims she…
It’s remarkable when you can see so much of yourself in a person who initially seems so different from you. Jacqueline Woodson was born in Ohio and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina after her mom left her dad. She moved to Brooklyn with her family when she was seven to escape Jim Crow. She…
What does it mean to tell a story? This question isn’t one that has a straight answer, but it’s what author Marita Golden made all of us in the audience consider during her opening lecture for the 2018-2019 season of Lehigh’s Notation Series. On September 13th, Golden filled the Lower Gallery of Zoellner Arts Center…