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Arts+Culture

Interview
Mary Jo Salter on what makes a poem good
Published Winter 2024
Chatting with the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2024 / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A composer for our times
Published Winter 2024
Peabody composition professor Kevin Puts has won most of music's major awards. What's his next act? / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Bach around the block
Published Winter 2024
Peabody cello Professor Amit Peled brings classical music lessons to Baltimore neighborhoods / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Near Eastern Studies
Dispatch from 15th century BCE
Published Winter 2024
JHU researchers investigate a recently unearthed cuneiform tablet dating back to 15th century BCE. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Fiction
Rules of order
Published Winter 2024
Yvonne Battle-Felton's second novel delves into the secrets of a remote village in 1960s America / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Rounding out the avant-garde
Published Winter 2024
The inaugural exhibition of the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes, offers a rare look at art and ephemera by artists and intellectuals, largely from Central and Eastern Europe, working to come to terms with their upturned lives after war and revolution. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Poetry
Varied hues of grief
Published Winter 2024
Molly Peacock's latest poetry collection is a sensual and sad ode to her late husband / Johns Hopkins Magazine
In memoriam
Former English professor and literature scholar Larzer Ziff dies at 97
Published Dec 2, 2024
Ziff, who taught in the English Department for nearly two decades, is remembered for his generous mentorship and influential scholarship
Undergraduate education
History in the making
Published Dec 2, 2024
Students in a Near Eastern Studies First Year Seminar try their hand at creating replicas of cuneiform tablets
Arts+culture
The Stein way
Published Nov 14, 2024
Sheridan Libraries exhibit explores the many facets of modernist matriarch Gertrude Stein