Emily Skillings ‘wipes her dirty hands’ at Lang Almuni Poetry Reading

Elizabeth Kendall (left) and Emily Skillings (right) talk about Skillings' work at the Lang alumni poetry reading on Tuesday Nov.10, 2015. (Photo/Kianna Stupakoff)

The undeniable charm of Emily Skillings’ poetry is its brutal honesty. Her poems aren’t pretty, in the traditional way that a poem is pretty, but they mesmerize. She…

#InSolidarityWithMizzou

Inside The New School's Social Justice Hub, New School students Rikki Byrd, Tsige Tafesse, Raissa Kouegbe and Katherine Tom discuss their agenda for the Nov. 13 walkout in solidarity with Mizzou.

Rikki Byrd, a University of Missouri alum and graduate student at Parsons was prompted by recent events at Mizzou to draft a New School letter of solidarity in…