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Email to the Washington University Community on November 25, 2014 from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton regarding aftermath of the release of the grand jury decision in Police Office Darren Wilson's case.

Email to the Washington University Community on November 24, 2014 from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton regarding emergency preparedness in advance of the grand jury decision in Police Office Darren Wilson's case.

This is the press release for the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" exhibition organized by Freida Wheaton.

The Alliance invited visual artists to respond to the killing of 18-year old Michael Brown, Jr. in Ferguson, MO and to the worldwide reaction of the public, law enforcement and the media. This historic awakening, with Fe
rguson, MO as “ground…

Table of Contents Introduction Steven Meyer James Merrill's Narrative Prose Garth Hallberg The Summer Palace: James Merrill's Fantastical Wallpaper Ida McCall and Margaret Funkhouser The Occasional Verse Jennifer Kronovet and…

Hans Lodeizen, a brilliant young Dutch poet, died in 1950—leaving his silhouette and a personalized copy of his first volume of verse in the hands of the twenty-four-year-old James Merrill. The two had become friends four years earlier at…

In one of his earliest volumes of poetry, Water Street (1962), James Merrill was already inquiring into what would become one his primary poetic projects: the problem of poetic “double vision.” Poetic double vision, or seeing art as both a…

Of James Merrill’s abilities as a playwright, opinions range from the acclaim of Tennessee Williams, who hailed The Bait as a masterpiece, to the almost unanimous contempt of New York theatre critics, who branded The Immortal Husband with…