100 Years of New College
Ten years ago (fall 2014), New College’s Nimbus published Mac Miller’s essay, “We Look Before and After”: 100 Years of New College, a bleak (per Mac) but prophetic (per me) look at New College’s then-future. The future seems to have arrived a bit early.
The purpose of this post is to make the essay more broadly available than it has been. I won’t characterize it further; it speaks for itself.
Read it here.
Thanks Jon! I don’t remember ever reading this piece in the Nimbus (but I wish I had). I’m reviewing my various NC 1967-1971 Mac memories (starting with my first semester poetry writing tutorial, for which he sent me to get more NC-uptodate by showing my poems to and working with upper classperson Sandi Stewart (who showed me her very original visual-poetic scrapbook/senior project (now alum Sondra London and editor of the 2015 book “The First Poets of New College: OLd & New Poems From the First Classes of New College of Florida” – a very treasured publication I still occasionally wander through).