by Mass Humaities | Aug 5, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
Martín Espada is an acclaimed poet, editor, essayist, and translator. He is also one of four individuals being honored this year with the Governor’s Award in the Humanities. Espada’s 2021 book of poetry, Floaters, won the National Book Award for Poetry. We recently...
by Mass Humaities | Jul 25, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
Clementinos is the third anthology of work produced by students in the Clemente Course in the Humanities. Mass Humanities celebrates the publication of Clementinos: Voices from the Clemente Writing Project, a new book featuring writing by Massachusetts residents who...
by Mass Humaities | Jul 12, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
Frederick Douglass and African American Uses of Communal Celebration and Truth-telling as Modes of Resisting Oppression and Creating Public Memory By Desiree Taylor2023 Reading Frederick Douglass Together Research Fellow Lessons from the past can teach new things and...
by Mass Humaities | Jul 11, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
On June 28, we gathered in Holyoke at Mill 1 Events for “The Future of Storytelling,” a two-part workshop and reception that celebrated our 50th anniversary while also affirming the centrality of storytelling in the cultural nonprofit sector. Please enjoy these...
by Mass Humaities | Jul 3, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
“Frederick Douglass is my hero,” says Boston resident Nancy Ahmadifar. The first time she attended a reading of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in Jamaica Plain, she hadn’t intended to read part of the speech. She planned on simply observing, she said. But...
by Mass Humaities | Jun 29, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
The move marks a new chapter in the organization’s 50 years of supporting the humanities in Massachusetts. Mass Humanities, the state’s leading funder of public humanities programs, is relocating its headquarters from Northampton to Holyoke in August. The foundation...
