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Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 16Austen CamillePublished September 2025It is very possible that the following poems have been written in the way that they are written because the Black Mountain Poets existed. I had never thought to categorize my...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 16Louis-Antoine Grégo and Federica PardiniPublished September 2025Since 2014, my studio and I have been passionately working on the ambitious rehabilitation of a former 7,500m² convent dating back to the early 17th...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 16Chloe Moore & Kira HoustonPublished September 2025 Originally recorded December 2024This video conversation was released December 2024 in conjunction with the exhibition The Farm at Black Mountain College held at...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 16Jillian LepekPublished September 2025Black Mountain College has been frequently described as formed in the intellectual tradition of intentional communities, one of the most well-known being Brook Farm in...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 16Joseph BathantiPublished September 2025  “… most everything I have ever learned, including how towrite, I picked up at Black Mountain College …”■   Michael Rumaker Early June 1952McCarthy amok –Michael Rumaker,...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15Richard Edwin RobertsPublished October 2024Lamps burn at noonin the house beneath pineswhere only splintered sun shines.Dusk comes soon,under barrier mountains lingers. Morning lateclimbing a rampart range.Reluctant...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15Charlott GreubPublished October 2024Formless - The Concept of ‘Silence’ in Music and Architecture Traditionally, music has been distinguished from noise, just as architecture is usually framed in juxtaposition with...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15Ioana CosmaPublished October 2024The Sound of the Earth From the blue bellies of ocean floorsand vanilla lagoons of visceral callingthere comes a sound that sails throughthe living like a subtle graze of the lover’s...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15 Alec Dunn Published October 2024In 2009, Signal was still in its conceptual stage. Josh MacPhee and I had yet to publish an issue, and only had vague aspirations about the contents and the physical size of this...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15Anne DickensPublished October 2024What happens to a place not forgotten?That calls to the future.The fragments of ideas and living meetIn night airA place that launched a centuryWith tendrils to every next place,Every...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15Lisa MullenneauxPublished October 2024 This article originally appeared in The New England Review, vol. 36, issue 4, 2015In her twenties, the New York poet Hilda Morley visited Hilda Doolittle, her namesake and...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15Annie Blazejack, Peter Boyer, Geddes Levenson, and Alex RubinsteynPublished October 2024Abstract: Perpetua is a generative art project, a computer program which designs and renders weavings using a simulated floor...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15Maria MolteniPublished October 2024New Craft Artists in Action was founded in 2010 by Maria Molteni and launched with collaborators Andrea Sherrill Evans and Taylor McVay. NCAA is an queer + feminist art collective...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15 O.M. ComstockPublished October 2024When Anni Albers and her students at Black Mountain College, such as Lore Kadden Lindenfeld, Else Regensteiner, Mimi French, and Don Page, looked at weaving, their trained eyes...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15Lorna Goodison and Amy E. ElkinsPublished October 2024 Originally recorded July 2023BMCM+AC presented a lecture, poetry reading, and conversation with Lorna Goodison and Amy E. Elkins. Elkins, Associate Professor of...

Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 15Corey D. B. WalkerPublished October 2024Review of: Joseph Pizza. Dissonant Voices: Race, Jazz, and Innovative Poetics in Midcentury America. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2023. ISBN 9781609389116. The July 7,...