- A theoretical meditation in the form of Surya Namaskar A In a recent candlelight yoga flow class I teach every Thursday night at Lincoln’s Lotus House of Yoga, I found myself grimacing with self-recrimination as I guided my 12 students into eka pada rajakapotasana. Otherwise known as “pigeon,” the pose requires the student to bend one knee up to her wrist with the foot angled back to the hip, while the other leg extends straight out behind the practitioner on the mat. In th

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s essay “Outer Worlds: The Persistence of Race in Movement ‘Beyond the Human’” makes a critical intervention into the discourse of post-humanism, positing the question, “What and crucially whose conception of humanity are we moving beyond?” (215). Jackson’s thesis is that post-humanist calls to go “beyond the human” risk reinforcing the “Eurocentric transcendentalism” that post-humanism ostensibly rejects because these calls often do not take an appropr

If you were a kid in the 1970s or 1980s, chances are you have at least a vague recollection of Daniel Striped Tiger, the sweet, high-voiced, feline inhabitant of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe on Mister Roger’s Neighborhood. And if, like me and my partner, you have a child under the age of 5, you might also be familiar with Daniel Striped Tiger’s offspring who now has his own spinoff, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, on PBS. The animated show stars four-year-old Daniel Tiger wh

“…we have to get over, as in getting over a disease, the idea that we can ‘all’ speak to one another in the universal voice of poetry” (Charles Bernstein, A Poetics, 5) Today on my drive to campus, I found myself mulling over a recent discussion with a poet friend about appeals to the “common reader” and “universal human truths” in the discourse around contemporary American poetry, and our mutual distrust of these terms. Poetry, so the story goes, has lost its ability to spe

I have a complicated relationship with the movies. In the last few years, I have come to dread the experience of going to the movies because I almost always have a bad time. Sometimes it’s because of the theater. Sometimes it’s the crowd. Typically, it’s the movie. To be clear, I am not a film critic or a film studies scholar—sometimes I really do just want to be entertained. That being said, it is interesting (to me anyway) that when I walk out of a movie I only expected to

A watershed is a geographic feature that divides water into different systems. A watershed also represents the tributaries and gathering ground for a central body of water. As graduate students at the University of Nebraska, we acknowledge the significance of watersheds to the agricultural industry as well as the ecology of the Great Plains region. However and perhaps most popularly, a watershed is known to be a crucial event or occurrence recognized as causing a turning poin