NYU's computer systems cannot handle any non-Latin characters in people's names. It cuts against the core of my identity, and it is time the systems changed.
18 months ago

IN FOREST PRIMEVAL, winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Vievee Francis summons a wilderness — equal parts the wilderness of...
83 months ago

O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. (Psalm 22:2). I lost. I failed. I sobbed on the stiff...
87 months ago

For reasons that in the mind of a 16 year old, made a lot of sense, I named my business Elizabeth Ervin. It sounded lovely, professional,...
29 months ago

Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: “Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer.”
107 months ago

Yesterday, when I received my copy of Barbra Streisand's long-awaited memoir, “My Name is Barbra,” I knew what had to be done.
14 months ago

Joey Wade can remember the first conversation, but not the exact time of day. He knows he was in Raleigh's Dorothea Dix Hospital and in the Cherry Building.
245 months ago

Debbie Millman has an ongoing project at PRINT titled “What Matters.” This is an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative...
38 months ago

The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, had been Googling me on his computer and iPhone. They were concerned that he may have had malevolent intent.
102 months ago

My name is America, and at nine years old, I hate my name. Not because I hate my country. No! In fact, at nine years old I love my country!
75 months ago