Brett Beasley is a staff writer for The Curator and a doctoral candidate in English Literature at Loyola University Chicago. Follow him on twitter @Brett_Beasley.
[Re-post:] In Defense of War Poetry
As long as there are wars, there should be war poetry, poetry that introduces complex responses into the public debate about the significance of war.
[The following article, originally published April 11, 2014, is being re-posted today in honor of Memorial Day, a holiday established for remembrance of those who have died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Brett Beasley argues that war poetry is an important means of remembering those who have fallen and also a way of […]
Failure:Lab swims against the metaphorical (and twitter) stream, with storytellers drawing audiences into the heart of a failure and then leaving them there. This makes being at Failure:Lab like experiencing an upside-down TED Talk.
The Curator’s Brett Beasley met up with Gregory Wolfe, Image’s founder and Editor-in-Chief, at the Festival of Faith and Writing in Grand Rapids, MI. They had the following conversation about culture, beauty, and the difficulties of sustaining an artistic vision today.
Poetry can’t write policy, but by providing a complex response to a complex situation, war poetry helps us to abide in contradictions, surely the first step toward living together more abundantly.
Brett Beasley’s reflections on the Sundance Film Festival
Stream, cloud, dust; now more than ever our text and our reading times are in need of a shape and an architecture. Intentionally or unintentionally, each of us has a reading practice that shapes the way we live, think, and interact
Field Notes from ArtPrize 2013
Yet there are a few intrepid souls—we call them standup comedians—who stake their livelihoods and reputations on their ability to walk alone onto a stage and produce laughter. “The equivalent for most people,” Jerry Seinfeld once said, “would be going to work in your underwear.”
Reading Kierkegaard in the Age of MOOCs
In the 200th year since his birth, Søren Kierkegaard still possesses the coyness of the Cheshire Cat, disappearing at will, leaving only his grin behind. But behind the tricks, disguises and illusions is the Kierkegaard the 21st century urgently needs: Kierkegaard the educator.
Doughnuts and American Ingenuity
In the face of a 24/7 offer of doughnuts, we are no longer rational, decision-making human beings, but urge-ridden troglodytes bound to our inborn drive for fat and sugar.
What about the time before America ran on Dunkin’?
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