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Finding Your Own Voice: Braxton Interviews Cortez, Joanne Braxton Apr 2010

Finding Your Own Voice: Braxton Interviews Cortez, Joanne Braxton

Joanne Braxton

Dr. Braxton conducted an interview with internationally acclaimed jazz poet and activist Jayne Cortez.  In her introduction, Braxton referred to Cortez as an “inspirational figure” who has created films and founded theater companies in addition to establishing her core body of work that includes 10 books of poetry and nine recordings.  “Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, innovative, dynamic innovations in lyricism and visceral sound,” Braxton said. “To hear Jayne Cortez’s poetry is to feel it.”


Art Work - “Loving: Elena Rubin” And “Loving: Shoshanna Weinberger”, Laura Kina Dec 2009

Art Work - “Loving: Elena Rubin” And “Loving: Shoshanna Weinberger”, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

OTHER TONGUES: MIXED-RACE WOMEN SPEAK OUT is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century. Contributions engage, document, and/or explore the experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the center, rather than periphery, of analysis.


Forest Of Eyes: Selected Poetry Of Tada Chimako, Jeffrey Angles Dec 2009

Forest Of Eyes: Selected Poetry Of Tada Chimako, Jeffrey Angles

Jeffrey Angles

One of Japan's most important modern poets, Tada Chimako (1930-2003) gained prominence in her native country for her sensual, surreal poetry, and fantastic imagery. Although Tada's writing is an essential part of postwar Japanese poetry, her use of themes and motifs from European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean history, mythology, and literature, as well as her sensitive explorations of women's inner lives make her very much a poet of the world. Forest of Eyes offers English-language readers their first opportunity to read a wide selection from Tada's extraordinary oeuvre, including nontraditional free verse, poems in the traditional forms of tanka and …


Viable (A Letter Confessing My Own Lack Of Faith To My Newborn Son), Julie Hensley Dec 2009

Viable (A Letter Confessing My Own Lack Of Faith To My Newborn Son), Julie Hensley

Julie Hensley

Last January, in the minute and a half it took the ultrasound technician to pronounce that word, hours after I stood up from the sofa and felt the blood rush warm out of me, I thought about the moments when knowledge of your life was mine alone, when I had sat, heart-pounding, holding the confirmation of your presence inside me, frozen, unable or unwilling, to rise and begin the inevitable process of sharing you.


Days And Nights Of San Miguel, Marianne Rogoff Dec 2009

Days And Nights Of San Miguel, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"Continuity
Roosters crow and the plaza comes to life every morning with newsboys, tourists, pigeons and grackles, prayers of the pilgrims, the balloon man, the cigarette lady, the horse with his blinders. Men stride through dressed for business in fresh-shined shoes. Cement façades are yellow gold, burnt red/orange, and keep still as clouds drift across the sun and shadows hover, persist. Rays of light fall from the sky, which is deep blue where it is not white with giant cumulus puffs. Black rain clouds move in, threatening, wind blows balloon streamers, smoke rises from tortilla barbecues, heads turn upward. The …


Encuentros Causales, Marianella Machado Dec 2008

Encuentros Causales, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

Encuentros Causales recoge una variada selecci¿n de poemas compuestos por Marianella Machado entre los a¿os 2001 y 2006. Cada poema de este libro, representa un encuentro con Dios, (la Causa ¿nica), ya sea, en la oraci¿n, la meditaci¿n, la felicidad, el sufrimiento, la culpa, entre otras circunstancias. Cada uno de los poemas es el resultado de una reflexi¿n sobre la causa en torno a la cual ha tenido lugar el encuentro con Dios.


Bajada, Julie Hensley Dec 2008

Bajada, Julie Hensley

Julie Hensley

After six months, I drove back to the desert like a lover. December. In the wake of a slow, winter rain. Week-old grass curled back into the sand like the golden fur of some sleeping animal.


100 Years Ago: By The North Sea, Christy Allen, Julie Mckuras Dec 2008

100 Years Ago: By The North Sea, Christy Allen, Julie Mckuras

Christy Allen

No abstract provided.


Menudencias, Marianella Machado Dec 2008

Menudencias, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

Menudencias es una colecci¿n de poemas breves inspirados en los Haikus de poetas japoneses, tales como: Bash¿, S¿gui, Kiorai, Riota, Taigui, Kit¿, entre otros. En Menudencias, Marianella Machado no intenta imitar fielmente a dichos poetas. M¿s bien, la poeta busca exceder los par¿metros de ese g¿nero mediante el uso constante de la variaci¿n de im¿genes.


Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems Of Hiromi Itō, Jeffrey Angles Dec 2008

Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems Of Hiromi Itō, Jeffrey Angles

Jeffrey Angles

Itō, born in 1955 in Tokyo, is one of the most important and dynamic poets of contemporary Japanese literature. After her sensational debut in the late 1970s, she emerged as the foremost voice of the wave of women's poetry that swept Japan in the 1980s, writing about the female body, sexuality, abortion, migration, and international displacement with a frankness that revolutionized the way that poetry was being written in Japan. To date, she has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, several novels, and numerous books of essays. This book provides the first retrospective of Itō's career in English …


Ascetic, Paul Bush Aug 2008

Ascetic, Paul Bush

Paul M Bush

No abstract provided.


Legerdemain, Paul Bush Aug 2008

Legerdemain, Paul Bush

Paul M Bush

No abstract provided.


Stanford University's Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Program Mar 2006

Stanford University's Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Program

Joanne Braxton

The Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference program where Dr. Braxton gave the introductory paper, Dunbar: The Originator.


Stanford University's Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Program Pdf Mar 2006

Stanford University's Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Program Pdf

Joanne Braxton

The Stanford University Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference program where Dr. Braxton gave the introductory paper, Dunbar: The Originator.


La Gruta, Marianne Rogoff Dec 2005

La Gruta, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"An ordinary night at La Gruta. Hot water dispels tension, possibilities float around my soft flesh, hard heart. Woman in her forties. Betrayed wife. Swims in mist under star-strewn Mexican sky. Again, another starry night and demons banish, mourning ceases, I breathe and swim through air, free the beastly beating broke-down heart. Under moonlight, seven nights the pool shimmers, light visible, then the tunnel, hotter, long and tight…. "


Detritus (Grand Valley Review), Kathryn Waggoner Dec 2003

Detritus (Grand Valley Review), Kathryn Waggoner

Kathryn L Waggoner

No abstract provided.


Julius Lester, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2000

Julius Lester, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

This article is reprinted from the original reference work, the Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press, 1997). It describes the life and career of Julius Lester.


Melba Boyd, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2000

Melba Boyd, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

This article has been reprinted in a revised edition of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press, 1997). It describes the life and career of Melba Boyd.


"Nothing Done!”: The Poet In Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture, Jill Anderson Dec 1999

"Nothing Done!”: The Poet In Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture, Jill Anderson

Jill E. Anderson

In this dissertation, I argue that early nineteenth-century American poets’ and readers’ interpretations of Romanticism shaped their understanding of the role poetry and its producers could play in a developing national culture. By examining the public careers and private sentiments of four male poets — William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jones Very — I analyze how each reconciled poetic vocation with the moral and economic obligations associated with the attainment of manhood. I locate these poets and their critics within specific historical discourses of aesthetic reception and production, focusing on the tensions and overlaps between …