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Book Review Of Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books, Ted Olson Dec 2017

Book Review Of Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Robert Morgan's Nonfiction Books


The Longest Night, Ted Olson Dec 2017

The Longest Night, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

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Book Review Of The Oxford Book Of American Poetry: The Difficulty Of Anthologizing American Poetry, Ted Olson Dec 2017

Book Review Of The Oxford Book Of American Poetry: The Difficulty Of Anthologizing American Poetry, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Review of The Oxford Book of American Poetry: The Difficulty of Anthologizing American Poetry


Book Review Of Caleb Beissert: Federico Garcia Lorca & Pablo Neruda: Beautiful, Translations From The Spanish, Ted Olson Dec 2017

Book Review Of Caleb Beissert: Federico Garcia Lorca & Pablo Neruda: Beautiful, Translations From The Spanish, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Review of Caleb Beissert: Federico Garcia Lorca & Pablo Neruda: Beautiful, Translations from the Spanish


Book Review Of Hank Reineke: Arlo Guthrie: The Warner Reprise Years, Ted Olson Dec 2017

Book Review Of Hank Reineke: Arlo Guthrie: The Warner Reprise Years, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Arlo Guthrie: The Warner/Reprise Years. By Hank Reineke. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012. Pp. xix + 327, series editor's foreword, preface, acknowledgments, discography, bibliography, index, 11 photographs, three illustrations.)


The National Storytelling Festival: Words, Music, And Memories, Ted Olson Nov 2017

The National Storytelling Festival: Words, Music, And Memories, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Excerpt: A Other acclaimed masters of the spoken word scheduled to appear at this year’s Festival include David Novak, Minton Sparks, Joseph Bruchac, Milbre Burch, and Jackson Gillman. Each year the Festival seeks to represent storytelling from a range of cultural traditions, and this year is no exception. Rev. Robert Jones and Diane Ferlatte will present stories and music relating African American experience, while Festival attendees may also see and hear performances by Yiddish storyteller Shonaleigh, Chinese American storyteller and musician Charlie Chin, and Brazilian performance artist Antonio Rocha. Several special events will be held in Anyone who shares an …


Word-Weaving In Tennessee: The National Storytelling Festival, Ted Olson Nov 2017

Word-Weaving In Tennessee: The National Storytelling Festival, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Excerpt: Appalachia is a storied land. Every place within the region has its own story, and virtually every person who has spent a significant amount of time in a specific Appalachian place has been affected by—indeed, has become part of—that story.


Robinson Jeffers: Appalachian, Californian, Poet, Ted Olson Nov 2017

Robinson Jeffers: Appalachian, Californian, Poet, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Excerpt: April is also National Poetry Month, and this column will focus on an April-themed poem—not one of the many April poems evincing sincere religiosity or forced sentimentality, and not that famous poem that cynically asserts that “April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land.


James Still: The Dean Of Appalachian Literature, Ted Olson Nov 2017

James Still: The Dean Of Appalachian Literature, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Excerpt: James Still (1906-2001) wrote “Heritage,” his signature poem, in 1935, and he continued to read it before audiences large and small into the 21st Century.