Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

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The Pivot

I’m one of those people. I rehearse. I practice. I study. I read, ask questions. So it takes me a while to reach the larger questions one…

Oct 16, 2020

Oct 16, 2020

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

The Art of Humility

It’s one of those journey-not-a-destination kind of things

Apr 2, 2020

Apr 2, 2020

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

Argie-Bargie

It’s always a good idea to once in a while take stock of yourself as an essayist. Here’s mine —

Dec 19, 2019

Dec 19, 2019

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

Turning Ourselves into Characters

Somewhere in mid-Missouri it struck me: Phillip Lopate wasn’t Phillip Lopate.

Dec 19, 2019

Dec 19, 2019

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

Today’s Montaignes

At heart, a personal essay is an attempt to arrest oblivion by wrestling into some kind of shape, or purpose, the mess of life. After all…

Dec 19, 2019

Dec 19, 2019

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

Open Body: Trying Veganism

This piece is inspired by a friend, who recently decided to become a vegetarian. She made the decision public on social media, and…

Jul 12, 2018

Jul 12, 2018

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

On Memory

In recent discussions on memory, a controversial issue has been whether collective memory or repressed memory is indeed authentic calling…

May 6, 2018

May 6, 2018

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

Two Roads, and I…

I’m on a long, and winding road.

Jan 14, 2017

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

Person from Porlock

A dream. An opium-induced haze. Famously, either a dream or a drug helped or hindered Samuel Taylor Coleridge to realize his poem “Kubla…

Jan 13, 2017

Jan 13, 2017

Dr. Wm. Anthony Connolly

Ductus!

It’s the middle of the night, and I am twelve, maybe thirteen, when I awake in terrible pain. The pain is coming from between my legs. I…

Oct 6, 2016