teaching

“alert”   On Monday I drove through a fresh snow to get my first dose of the Moderna vaccine. By the time I arrived home, there were multiple alerts on…

Year fifteen at Fresno State: empty classrooms and empty nest. I begin the online semester fearing that my efforts to gain institutional support for outreach to southwest Fresno in the…

Image Credit: photos (Stephanie Astrow); design (Lilly Astrow)   Teaching under any circumstances, dire or otherwise, is largely about holding back. You love your students, of course. That’s a prerequisite.…

In my kids’ yoga classroom on the Lower East Side, two hundred elementary school girls still in their uniforms take the shape of a cow. Knees under hips, hands under…

We have no neighbors across the street, save the red fox and the gray fox, the mulberry trees, and the bunnies. This spring, rather suddenly, the mulberry trees fruited in…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

“Don’t say mourning. It’s too analytical. I’m suffering.”                         —Roland Barthes, from a journal kept after his mother’s death…

There are so many ways to get it wrong, to misread, to come to the pages we assign you—and fail. Maybe you see the same story, one of challenge and…

    MISS has run twice a month since the summer as a part of The New Comics.  Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics?…

I have had my life threatened one time, and the picture looks nothing like the common worry of a stranger hiding in a dark park at night while you walk…

  MISS runs twice a month as a part of The New Comics.  Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy submissions…

  MISS runs twice a month as a part of The New Comics.  Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy submissions…

  MISS runs twice a month as a part of The New Comics.  Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy submissions…

  MISS runs twice a month as a part of The New Comics.  Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith…