In 1972 I graduated from Goddard College, where I studied Early Childhood Education with the remarkable June Edson. I taught in nursery and daycare settings for a few years, and then I ran away with the circus, that is to say, I joined the Bread and Puppet Theater, which has been the foundation for my… Continue reading “I ran away with the circus” Trudi Cohen’s Together for Goddard Story
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Challenge Accepted: Goddard College Launches Future-Focused $4 Million Campaign
Goddard College announced on Tuesday its largest fundraising effort to date, the Together for Goddard campaign to raise $4 million by the end of June 2020. At a time when many are questioning the future and viability of New England colleges, Goddard believes that its greatest innovations and academic experiments are yet to come. “This… Continue reading Challenge Accepted: Goddard College Launches Future-Focused $4 Million Campaign
An Open Letter to a Prospective Student
Dear Goddard Prospective Student, I am not going to tell you my story. I am going to take the things I have seen and heard over the last two years at Goddard and create your story. It’s just the two of us here on this page, so let’s not be humble and shy. Admit it… Continue reading An Open Letter to a Prospective Student
100% Acceptance Takes on New Meaning at Goddard
by Bernard Bull, President of Goddard College A Goddard College graduation ceremony is unlike anything that I’ve ever seen in higher education. There are multiple graduations each semester, one for each degree or cluster of degrees that share a 10-day intensive residency on campus. We might have five to ten graduates at a given ceremony.… Continue reading 100% Acceptance Takes on New Meaning at Goddard
Radical Love: Q&A with Gina Forbes, Director of One Tree Center
Gina Forbes is the Director of One Tree Center in South Portland, ME. The Center includes a preschool that holds the phrase Radical Love at the center of its principles. Radical, in the true meaning of the word, meaning “at the root”. This rooted focus on love informs Gina’s work and manifested itself through her… Continue reading Radical Love: Q&A with Gina Forbes, Director of One Tree Center
Writer in the World Podcast EP. 9: “The Voice”
Faculty member Kenny Fries, a leading voice in the disability arts and disability studies world, talks about high standards, research, humor, and finding ways to be in the present time. A poet, memoirist and essayist, and also a librettist, he says that traveling and living internationally is “as necessary as blood.” “Most of my work… Continue reading Writer in the World Podcast EP. 9: “The Voice”
Unschooling toward Educational Liberation
by Bernard Bull, president of Goddard College ((((ring)))) By the time that someone graduates from high school, there is a good chance that they have been through a multi-year Pavlovian experiment that consistently results in people learning to respond on command. ((((ring)))) Doing the simple math, if you attended a school that used bells between… Continue reading Unschooling toward Educational Liberation
Writer in the World Podcast EP. 8: “The Limitations of Language”
Bhanu Kapil speaks about growing up amid immigrant voices in North West London, and how she “accidentally” became known for her performances as a way to cross time and space. “Trying to write a novel as a diasporic writer, I find it quite challenging to write the historiography, the memory, the cardinal flux of a… Continue reading Writer in the World Podcast EP. 8: “The Limitations of Language”
Writer in the World Podcast EP 6: “The Dark”
Can one’s imagination run too wild? Fiction writer John McManus talks about channeling the dark – anxiety, emotion, even wildly horrible possible futures – into his stories. He shares the evolution of the novel he is currently working on, Magnetic South, in which “fake” reporting about the colloquially-known “Kill the Gays” bill in Uganda leads… Continue reading Writer in the World Podcast EP 6: “The Dark”
Writer in the World Podcast EP 5: “The Outsider”
Born and raised in an immigrant family in England, Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing program director Elena Georgiou shares her experience of a community where there was “no pretense about a melting pot.” She talks political dreams, and how being an outsider, and a second class citizen, in her own country has fueled her writing: … Continue reading Writer in the World Podcast EP 5: “The Outsider”
Writer in the World Podcast EP 4: “Trust”
In Episode Four in the Writer in the World podcast series faculty spotlight series, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto interviews fellow faculty member and award-winning playwright Rogelio Martinez who teaches dramatic writing on the Vermont campus. Martinez speaks about leaving Cuba: “a land where trust doesn’t come easily.” In May 1980, when he was nine years old,… Continue reading Writer in the World Podcast EP 4: “Trust”
Writer in the World Podcast EP 3: “The Forest”
In the third episode of Writer in the World Podcast, author and Goddard faculty Sherri L Smith talks about why writers should take time to express gratitude to trees and be prepared to listen. Smith teaches fiction, graphic novel, non-fiction, screenplays, and fantasy at the MFA in Writing program at Goddard College. Fellow faculty Rahna… Continue reading Writer in the World Podcast EP 3: “The Forest”
Empathy, Anger, & Hate: A talk with Vincent DiPersio, documentary film maker
Vincent DiPersio (RUP ‘76) is a three-time Academy Award nominee for Documentary Feature. He has three Emmys. Last month he debuted a new film called Killed By Hate on the Oxygen Channel called Uncovered: Killed by Hate. It’s an examination of how the back-to-back murders of James Byrd and Mathew Sheppard led to Barack Obama’s… Continue reading Empathy, Anger, & Hate: A talk with Vincent DiPersio, documentary film maker
Writer in the World Podcast EP 2: “Defying Gravity”
“Defying Gravity” In the second episode of the Writer in the World podcast, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto interviews MFAW faculty Richard Panek who teaches fiction and non-fiction at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. Panek, an essayist, journalist, humorist and fiction writer, talks about how he became enamored of writing about science: “I saw that in writing… Continue reading Writer in the World Podcast EP 2: “Defying Gravity”
Dr. Danielle Gold Gives Hope for Refugees in Greece
In the struggle to provide much needed mental health support to vulnerable refugees, one woman is fearless. Dr. Danielle Gold, Executive Director of Fearless Planet documents her organization’s work in Samos, Greece in a video released by her organization. Dr. Gold is an alum of Goddard’s MA in Psychology program and adjunct professor teaching a… Continue reading Dr. Danielle Gold Gives Hope for Refugees in Greece
Writer in the World Podcast EP 1: “The Star”
The inaugural episode of The Writer in the World podcast by the Goddard College Masters in Creative Writing program.
Invitation to Witness: An Interview with Stefanie Batten Bland (part one)
March 13, 2019 This is the first installment of a three-part interview with Stefanie Batten Bland that was conducted by Reuben Radding on March 4, 2019 at New York University in New York City. Stefanie and Reuben are both current students in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College. All photographs in the series… Continue reading Invitation to Witness: An Interview with Stefanie Batten Bland (part one)
Invitation to Witness: An Interview with Stefanie Batten Bland (part two)
March 29, 2019 This is the second installment of a three-part interview with Stefanie Batten Bland that was conducted by Reuben Radding on March 4, 2019 at New York University in New York City. Stefanie and Reuben are both current students in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College. All photographs in the series… Continue reading Invitation to Witness: An Interview with Stefanie Batten Bland (part two)
Invitation to Witness: An Interview with Stefanie Batten Bland (part three)
April 5, 2019 This is the third installment of a three-part interview with Stefanie Batten Bland that was conducted by Reuben Radding on March 4, 2019 at New York University in New York City. Stefanie and Reuben are both current students in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College. All photographs in the series… Continue reading Invitation to Witness: An Interview with Stefanie Batten Bland (part three)
“The Salutation” honoring Toni Morrison comes to Haybarn Theatre
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” -Toni Morrison This Saturday at 7pm, Goddard College will host The Salutation!, the culminating event of the We Do Language Symposium, which has been happening at various locations throughout the state from September 15 to September… Continue reading “The Salutation” honoring Toni Morrison comes to Haybarn Theatre