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1970 Alternative Media Conference at Goddard College

The Alternative Media Conference took place at Goddard College from June 17th through June 20 in 1970. The original Alternative Media Conference brought over 1,700 innovative FM radio DJs, a new breed of record company promoters, underground newspaper reporters, Freak Brothers cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, Baba Ram Dass, Rolling Stone photographer Robert Altman, 60s radical Jerry… Continue reading 1970 Alternative Media Conference at Goddard College

Ruth Ozeki’s reading at Goddard

As in, she DID read, and if you weren’t there but wish you were, here’s a video:   Novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki was our visiting writer at the MFA in Creative Writing Program’s spring 2015 residency in Vermont. Ozeki’s first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated… Continue reading Ruth Ozeki’s reading at Goddard

Disability Theater: A Note from Berlin

The past five months, I’ve been in Berlin researching a new book.  Much of my time is spent learning about difficult things, such as how disabled people were killed under the Nazi Aktion T4 program.  But much of my time is also spent partaking in the extraordinary cultural riches of Berlin. The past few years,… Continue reading Disability Theater: A Note from Berlin

Ruth Ozeki to Goddard in January

We are thrilled that our Visiting Writer at the upcoming winter residency in Vermont will be novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki. Ruth’s first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her most recent work, A Tale for the Time… Continue reading Ruth Ozeki to Goddard in January

Alum Mary Johnson talks memoir With Rahna Reiko Rizzuto and Kenny Fries

During our recent residency, alumna Mary Johnson, author of An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life,  joined faculty members Kenny Fries and Reiko Rizzuto at Goddard’s Plainfield, Vermont campus on 1/10/12 to discuss approaches and experiences to developing a memoir. Transformation: From Personal Experience to Published Memoir from… Continue reading Alum Mary Johnson talks memoir With Rahna Reiko Rizzuto and Kenny Fries