Editor’s Note: The Dalai Lama celebrated his ninetieth birthday on July 6th and will observe the next twelve months as a “year of compassion.” The Massachusetts Review shares today an excerpt from contributor Amy Yee’s narrative nonfiction book, Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents . . .
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Elise Paschen’s latest collection is Blood Wolf Moon, our from Red Hen. Her poem “Heritage” appeared in our A GATHERING OF NATIVE VOICES issue back in 2020. BOA Editions recently published Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, the latest collection from poet Keetje Kuipers, whose poem “I, Too, Took Pictures of My Body” . . .
Read MoreThese erasures are created from pages of Fascinating Womanhood, a 1963 “self-improvement” manual for wives, with whose author I (once) shared a religious background. It urged women to suppress their intelligence and capability, and make themselves childlike, dependent, and “feminine.” I first encountered it in the library of the religious institute across the . . .
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Editor’s note: April 16, 2025, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Abigail Chabitnoy– mentor for the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA in Creative Writing, poetry editor for the Massachusetts Review, and assistant professor of English at UMass Amherst—presented this year’s Oscar-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat . . .
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Editor’s note: April 23, 2025, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the celebrated Italian documentarian Agostino Ferrente presented his 2019 film Selfie, which first screened at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards, and subsequently won prizes at film festivals in Luxembourg . . .
Read MoreEditor’s note: Alon Confino, director of the IHGMS at UMass, died on June 27, after a long illness. Professor Buerkle offered the following remarks at his funeral on July 2. My name is Darcy Buerkle, I am a faculty member in the History department at Smith College and it is a great . . .
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