Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) was a prolific poet, children’s book author, and professor. Clifton’s poetry focuses mainly on the strength and endurance one must possess in order to live as a Black American, though it also explores other aspects of her identity, such […]
It’s that time again! Advocacy Week, presented by the TEFL/TESL Student Association, is just around the corner. Mini-presentations will occur all week beginning Monday, February 26th with the week culminating in a keynote address on Friday, March 2nd. This year, […]
I think any poem, and any writer, is always breaking open the questions beneath the poem, or the writing. You’re always trying to figure out: what gives me the right to say x or y? What does that mean? When […]
Ross Gay, born in 1974, is an American writer and professor, and considered by many to be one of America’s leading poets. Gay was born in Ohio but soon relocated to Pennsylvania, where he stayed until graduating from Lafayette College […]
Ten Essential Black Authors to Read During Black History Month— and Every Month A reading list from Camille Dungy Narrowing this down to a Top Ten List was a nearly impossible assignment. So, like the books I share here, I […]
“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.” ~Alex Haley Author Alex Haley was born in 1921 in Ithaca, New York. His father was an agriculture professor […]
Based on his recent book, The Fate of Transcendentalism. Secularity, Materiality, and Human Flourishing (2017), Ronda’s talk explores the work of three figures associated with the nineteenth-century American transcendentalist movement or inspired by it: reformer and essayist Elizabeth Peabody, novelist […]
~from Katie Haggstrom “The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of my by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.” ~Richard Wright Poet, essayist, and author Richard Wright […]
Zadie Smith is a British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Smith was born Sadie Smith in the north-west London borough of Brent to a Jamaican mother and an English father in 1975. When she was 14, she changed her first […]
Samantha Irby is a comedian, author, and blogger. When asked in an interview when she knew she was a writer, Irby responded, “Probably not until I saw my first book in an actual bookstore. Although even now I kind of feel like […]
