Our opening song is “Ezz-thetic,” from the 1961 release Ezz-thetics by George Russell. In the conversation to come we’ll make reference to the American modernist poet Ezra Pound, and what the literary scholar Hugh Kenner termed “The Pound Era” in his 1971 book. Pound is perhaps best known for the poetic movement he named Imagism and for his endlessly expanding …

758 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Indiana on Monday, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. There were 20 reported deaths. Locally, Monroe County saw 151 new confirmed cases yesterday, nearly 20% of Indiana’s new cases. Lawrence County reported 2 new cases, while Brown County reported none. The Bloomington Academy of Film and Theatre, or BAFT, will …

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This week marks the 49th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, when 1300 prisoners in New York state overcame physical, social, and political barriers to accomplish their revolt. We spoke with Orisanmi Burton, a professor at American University, who has interviewed many participants in the uprising and is currently preparing a book on the event. Professor Burton insists on prioritizing the …

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He wrote–plays, essays, fiction, even haiku–for years and years until one day he decided he’d never win the National Book Award and gave up writing. Then, with the pandemic on everybody’s mind, an editor read his decades-old novella about a global illness and offered to publish it as a book. Jim Poyser threw in ten short stories and this month …

Well, we’re back, and we’ve entered the first stage of the coming apocalypse! Some headlines that we discussed this week: COVID cases are rising in Bloomington as Indiana University classes continue and local public schools open their doors (as of Monday) Doctors discover a mutated strain of HIV in 2 patients in France that is resistant to treatment Federal Judge …

Today’s edition of Bring It On! focuses on the tragic death of Chadwick Boseman from colorectal cancer and how this cancer is affecting the Black Community. In the first half of the show hosts, Clarence Boone and Cornelius Wright, examine the legacy and impact of Boseman’s too-brief career with Dr. Terri Francis, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and …

394 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Indiana on Monday, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. There were 4 reported deaths. Locally, Monroe County saw 32 new confirmed cases yesterday, while Lawrence County saw 1. Brown County reported no new cases. The Monroe County Community School Corporation announced yesterday that it would be moving into “code yellow” …

Late last month in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police shooting of a Black man named Jacob Blake set off riots and looting in a city just a little smaller than Bloomington, Indiana. Three months prior, the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin prompted a string of riots and looting that resonated throughout the country, from Portland to …