"Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation.This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells pr ..."
"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."
"This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-1968 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a complex, ongoing process of defining national values such as freedom, justice, a ..."
"This title offers perspectives on civil rights not found in history books. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-1968 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a compl ..."
"Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation. This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells p ..."
"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."
Playlist for the Apocalypse Poems by RitaDove 128 Pages, Published 2021 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-86778-7, ISBN: 0-393-86778-1
"In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy."
"Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in contextIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915–16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The res ..."
"... USA on 27 July 1996, with the following cast: PHEBE, B.W. Gonzalez PSYCHE
, Gina Daniels SCYLLA, Tamu Gray TICEY, Michelle Blackmon DIANA, Nadine
Griffith SLAVE WOMAN/NARRATOR, Johanna Jackson HECTOR, Thomas Byrd
..."
Truth To Power Writers Respond To The Rhetoric Of Hate And Fear by RitaDove, Joy Harjo, Pam Uschuk Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2017 by Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts ISBN-13: 978-0-9986220-0-2, ISBN: 0-9986220-0-1
"Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts announces publication of a special collection of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, meant to address the rise in the public rhetoric of hatred and fear, prompted by the 2016 presidential campaign and election. Writers from diverse cultures, genders, ethnic backgrounds and races from all over the U.S. respond in poetry, fiction and nonfiction to social issues ranging from immigration, LGBT rights, women's ..."
Collected Poems 1974-2004 by RitaDove 400 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-28595-6, ISBN: 0-393-28595-2
"... Age 10, Harlem,” “Evening Primrose,” and “Soprano” appeared in the
chapbook Evening Primrose: Selected Poems, ... a song cycle for soprano and
orchestra, lyrics by Rita Dove, music by John Williams, and first appeared in the
program of ..."
The Best of Cutthroat(20th Edition) (Paperback) by Joy Harjo, RitaDove, Sandra Cisneros Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts Formato Grande ISBN-13: 978-0-9795634-9-2, ISBN: 0-9795634-9-6
"Collected here in THE BEST OF CUTTHROAT are works by some of the finest poets, short story writers and nonfiction writers in our country, including Joy Harjo, Rita Dove, Wendell Berry, Carolyn Forche, Martin Espada, Sandra Cisneros, Alison Hawthorne-Deming, Rebecca Seiferle, Richard Jackson, Michael Martone, Patricia Smith, Pam Houston, Linda Hogan and others. This anthology is a distillation of all the fine work that Cutthroat, A Journ ..."
"An anthology of poetry addressing violence against African-Americans featuring work by Jericho Brown, Kwame Dawes, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Martin Espada, Ross Gay, Jaki Shelton Green, Joy Harjo, Patricia Spears Jones, Allison Joseph, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jamaal May, Thylias Moss, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Quincy Troupe, Frank X Walker, Afaa MIchael Weaver, Mark Doty and more. Edited by Tony Medina. Proceeds from the s ..."
Collected Poems(1st Edition) 1974-2004 by RitaDove Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-28594-9, ISBN: 0-393-28594-4
"Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award Finalist for the 2017 NAACP Image Award Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.Rita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974–2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume ..."
"This literary journal features poetry, short stories and essays by Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Rita Dove, Carolyn Forche, Martin Espada, Sherwin Bitsui, Clarence Major, Marilyn Nelson, Patricia Spears Jones, Quincy Troupe, Linda Weasel Head, William Pitt Root, Mark Childress, Jodi Angel, Louis Alberto Urrea, Sandra Cisneros and many others. This tribute to Native American writers, Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan, is Cutthroat's Tenth Anniversary ..."
"In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration. Within months of its making, Lawrences Migration series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African-American art, a monument in the collect ..."
"The power of the written word can transform the human experience... One of the special roles of poetry is to concentrate observations and their attendant emotions in ways that can be a powerful stimulus to our imagination and helps us to transcend the particular moment of occurrence... The Poets Laureate of Virginia featured in this anthology possess this special gift. Our lives are richer for their dedication to their crafts as well as ..."
"Book to complement The Folgers Winter 2012 exhibition.Shakespeare's Sisters : Voices of English And European Women Writers,1500-1700,February 2 through May 19 2012."
" In a work unlike anything she's written before, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates unveils a poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of forty-six years and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. "My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnos ..."