Bread Loaf School of English

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   2020s,  Bread Loaf School of English,  Arts, Language, Culture

   Summer Writings

   Enjoy the poetry and prose of this summer’s cohort at the Bread Loaf School of English. The theme for the summer 2023 edition of the Bread Loaf Journal is recovery and resilience.

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   Bread Loaf School of English,  Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture

   A Writer’s Craft

   The latest podcast episode of Midd Moment features Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04, a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer.

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   Bread Loaf School of English,  Academic Excellence,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Faculty

   Poetry as Medicine

   Former Bread Loaf faculty member Marjorie Ryerson has published her first book of poetry, The Views from Mount Hunger. 

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   Bread Loaf School of English,  Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Faculty

   In Praise of Roadside Americana

   Megan Mayhew Bergman delights in driving past scrap metal dinosaurs, a giant gorilla holding a Volkswagen aloft, and other roadside attractions.

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   1990s,  Middlebury College,  Bread Loaf School of English,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Athletics,  Identity

   Finding His Way

   Michael Obel-Omia ’88, MA English ’92 had to redefine his identity after a stroke in 2016 left him with aphasia, which affects one’s ability to use or comprehend words.

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   2020s,  Bread Loaf School of English,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture

   Mystery at the Boarding School

   Bread Loaf School of English writer Rebecca Makkai MA ’04 addresses guilt, sexual predation, and racial privilege in her upcoming novel, I Have Some Questions for You, set in a New Hampshire girls’ boarding school. She spoke to Publishers Weekly about the book’s inspirations and her career.

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   2000s,  Bread Loaf School of English,  Arts, Language, Culture

   Words of Undoing

   Guernica magazine recently published a poem by Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07. You can read or listen to “Tenement” online.

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   Middlebury College,  Bread Loaf School of English,  Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Equity & Justice

   Reading List for Black History Month

   In celebration of Black History Month, we’ve compiled a list of Black authors connected to Middlebury that we hope you’ll check out. 

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   2000s,  Bread Loaf School of English,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Environment

   Art for the Earth

   Bread Loaf student and multimedia artist Himali Singh Soin ’08 is using her art to raise awareness and funds for ecological and community sustainability in the Himalayas.

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    Bread Loaf School of English,  Academic Excellence,  Faculty

    An Exemplary Educator

    Beverly Moss, director of the Bread Loaf Teacher Network, has won the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication Exemplar Award.