Poet and novelist Jan Clausen is also the author of a memoir, Apples and Oranges. Her work has appeared recently in Bloom, Boston Review, Fence, The Hat, Margie, Ploughshares, and The Women’s Review of Books. The recipient of writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, she teaches creative writing at the New School and in the Goddard College MFA in Writing Program. Her poetry collection From a Glass House will be published by Ikon Books later this year. Archived work is available at: www.ablationsite.org.

Blog Entries by Jan Clausen

The New School Commencement Protest: A Faculty Member's View

Posted May 25, 2006 | 12:39 PM (EST)


I teach creative writing at the New School and I'm an organizer of the protest by students, faculty, and staff in response to President Bob Kerrey's choice of Senator John McCain as our commencement speaker. Having read President Kerrey's defense of his own actions--offered under the guise of defending...

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