Category: Events
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Women's History Month: Adrienne Rich
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Read More: Women's History Month: Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich was a poet, non-fiction writer, essayist, and feminist, credited with bringing “the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse.” Rich was encouraged especially by her father to read and write poetry. Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, published during her last year as an…
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Women's History Month: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Read More: Women's History Month: Amy Krouse RosenthalIf you have young children who love to read, you may already know Amy Krouse Rosenthal, maybe without even realizing it — she’s a best selling author of over 30 award-winning books beloved by children, including “Duck! Rabbit!,” “Spoon,” “Yes Day!,” “Little Pea,” and “The Wonder Book,” (see a full…
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Women's History Month: Leslie Marmon Silko
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Read More: Women's History Month: Leslie Marmon SilkoLaguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko was born in 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She identifies as an Anglo American and Mexican American, noting that she is ¼ Laguna Pueblo, a Native American tribe predominantly located along the Rio San Jose in west-central New Mexico. Growing up along the border…
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Fork Socket: An Exposé (or, No One Was Injured in the Making of This Blog Post)
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Read More: Fork Socket: An Exposé (or, No One Was Injured in the Making of This Blog Post)~from intern Joyce Bohling This month’s Fork Socket reading featured a giant game of Battleship. You know, Battleship: the game with the submarine, the cruiser, the aircraft carrier, and the destroyer, where you say “miss” so many times it starts to sound like you’re trying to get an unmarried woman’s…
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Women's History Month: Sylvia Plath
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Read More: Women's History Month: Sylvia PlathThe name Sylvia Plath incites thoughts of deep, depressive poetry and a woman who abruptly ended her life. But her raw, revealing writing has inspired and influenced generations of new writers and poets. Born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath had always been drawn to language. From the age of…
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Women's History Month: Edith Wharton
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Read More: Women's History Month: Edith WhartonEdith Wharton may not have published her first novel until she was 40 years old, but she was a prolific writer who actually began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, even writing a novella at age eleven. Publishing was seen as something women, especially those of her class, didn’t do (their…
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Women's History Month: International Women's Day
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Read More: Women's History Month: International Women's Day“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” ~Gloria Steinem International Women’s Day commemorates the movement for women’s rights, and was originally called International Working Women’s Day. The earliest…
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Women's History Month: Sojourner Truth
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Read More: Women's History Month: Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist born into slavery, originally named Isabella Baumfree. At eleven years old, after the death of her original owner and then his son, she was separated from her family, and sold at an auction with a flock of sheep for $100. Sold two more times…
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Women's History Month: Maxine Hong Kingston
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Read More: Women's History Month: Maxine Hong KingstonThe daughter of Chinese-American immigrants, Maxine Hong Kingston was born in 1940 in Stockton, California. She is the author of two highly-acclaimed works of nonfiction—Woman Warrior and China Men—and has also written two novels and a number of more recent works of nonfiction. Kingston’s writing career began early with publication…
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Women's History Month: Margaret Fuller
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Read More: Women's History Month: Margaret FullerMargaret Fuller is a woman known for her powerful feminist writings and her literary criticism. Born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts in 1810, she learned to read at the age of three. Her father refused to let her read the feminine books of the time that focused on etiquette and sentiment, setting…