June Yang

Grants and development professional. Writes fiction, teaches dance fitness. A nice Northern lady. She/her/hers. Personal account (opinions are her own).

[June Yang @June_Unjoo_Yang]

Love this one-two punch of deeply deserved recognition for @paulmguest.

🌟His poem “Theories of Revenge” was chosen for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2022.

🌟His poem “Directions” is today’s featured poem on @versedailypoems.

Read “Directions”: https://t.co/vjpMijFycu

[ESSENCE @Essence]

Judith Jamison, an international dance pioneer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, has passed away at the age of 81.

Judith's grace, stature, and God-given talent inspired us all to dance like no one’s watching. In 1965, at a time when Black dancers were rare in ballet, she became the standard of dance with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Jamison helped bring the dance company international acclaim with two of Ailey’s signature dances, “Revelations” and “Cry.” She danced with the Ailey Company for 15 years before leaving to perform on Broadway. Later, she returned to the Ailey Company as its artistic director for 20 years.

Thank you for the gifts; may you dance a heavenly dance.

📸: Getty Images

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Judith Jamison was a true visionary in the world of dance.

From the American Ballet Theatre to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, she broke barriers and stirred souls with her grace and artistry.

Over the years, Barack and I would watch her pieces for Alvin Ailey's company whenever we could — and often brought our girls with us to see her gifts on display. We were lucky enough to host her and her dancers at the White House to showcase their extraordinary talent for the world to see.

Today, Judith's spirit will live on in all the dancers she’s inspired, in all the pieces she’s perfected, in all the audiences she has moved and uplifted. Barack and I send our love to her family, her dancers, and to all those around who looked up to her.

[Star Wars @starwars]

Thank you for everything, James.

A statement from George Lucas and Lucasfilm: https://t.co/ieEdG0k5zY

[Sean Hayes @SeanHayes]

It was truly an honor, Mr. Jones. You will be greatly missed. #JamesEarlJones #WillAndGrace

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

There is a certain immortality involved in theater, not created by monuments and books, but through the knowledge an actor keeps to his dying day that on a certain afternoon, in an empty and empty dusty theater, he cast the shadow of a being that was not himself but the distillation of all that he had ever observed; all the unsingable heart song the ordinary man may feel but never utter, he gave voice to. And by that somehow joins the ages.

—Arthur Miller

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

My deep sense of foreboding only deepens.

[Variety @Variety]

Bob Newhart, the genteel but sharply satirical comic whose TV series “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” were huge hits throughout the 1970s and ’80s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 94. ⁠

Read more about his life and legacy here: https://t.co/I34GAQQCbb

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Bob Newhart has passed away at age 94. His wit and deadpan delivery and stammering style made him a must-watch for generations. The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart won a Grammy and topped the charts while The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart are still classics.
He will be so missed.

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

From his groundbreaking stand-up to his two classic sitcoms he gave us a lifetime of laughter. Truly one-of-a-kind. Thank you Bob Newhart!
#RIP

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Munro (1931–2024). In memory of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive.

https://t.co/1G1Qgtss2C

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The author Alice Munro has died at 92. “Few contemporary writers are more admired, and with good reason,” James Wood wrote, when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2013. https://t.co/cC9aV2RLr9

[George Stroumboulopoulos 🐺 @strombo]

He was a custodian of original intent.
He had a way to connect bands to the most authentic identity of their idea - Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Mogwai, The Breeders, Jesus Lizard and so many more.
RIP Steve Albini.

[Michael Azerrad @michaelazerrad]

I don't know what to say about Steve Albini's passing. He had a brilliant mind, was a great artist and underwent the most remarkable and inspiring personal transformation. I can't believe he's gone.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Siri Hustvedt with Paul Auster, December 2020.

[Mark Asch @MarkAschParody]

r.i.p. Paul Auster, seen here as a Columbia undergrad participating in the 1968 uprising in a shot from Peter Whitehead’s THE FALL

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Paul Auster, the prolific, inventive writer best known for his novels about New York, has died at 77. https://t.co/cH9U37h0gY

[DecoratingDissidence @DecoDissidence]

RIP Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), who leaves an incredible legacy after a life dedicated to art &activism. In story quilts such as the French Collection, she used textile art to intervene in narratives of art history & modernism, rewriting the canon to centre the Black female gaze

[Andrew Russeth @AndrewRusseth]

RIP Faith Ringgold, a dauntless and astonishingly inventive artist, activist, author, illustrator, sculptor, and children’s-book legend. The great ideas just kept coming. She was one of the signal cultural figures of our times.

[Saul Williams @SaulWilliams]

Rest in Peace Faith Ringgold 🕊️

[Paul Guest @paulmguest]

My thanks to ⁦@thenation⁩ for publishing this poem, forthcoming in You Are Here by ⁦@Milkweed_Books⁩ — thank you, also, to ⁦@adalimon⁩ for including it in this anthology. https://t.co/a7nzmzcWgs