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Rafaele Andrade

Biography

Rafaele Andrade is a composer/cellist/sonologist based in the Netherlands. Her composition Sasando was the inspiration for Tim Horvath’s short story “The Tungsten Record,” published online at Conjunctions in 2020.

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Works & Days

Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

Online

Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology

by Chloe Garcia Roberts

October 2, 2024

It is not a beautiful day in Mexico City unless you can see Popocatépetl. In this place, beauty is determined solely by whether or not the volcano breaches the nebulous smog like a visitation, by whether the eye can ascend its snow-covered face. When what was sensed but veiled yesterday is suddenly revealed today, it is, in the smallest way, a faith realized.

Three Cantos from Dante’s Paradiso

by Mary Jo Bang

September 25, 2024

My eyes were already fixed on the face
Of My Lady, and my mind with them—
All other thoughts had been wiped away.

She wasn’t smiling; instead, she began:
“If I were smiling, you’d become
Like Semele when she was turned to ashes,

Four Poems

by Joe Fletcher

September 18, 2024

We were picnicking on the plains
when she emerged from the rushes.
She wore an apricot smock.
Her face was smeared with soot.
She said her name was Stina Groth.
A cloud of bats burst from the chimney
of a crumbling cottage behind her.
We asked her where home was.
She drew a circle in the silt with a twig.

A Reading by Joyce Carol Oates

The internationally renowned writer will read from her work.

Monday, October 21, 2024

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Chapel of the Holy Innocents