Tag: Jill Salahub
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Women's History Month: Anne Frank
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Read More: Women's History Month: Anne Frank~from Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub I spent yesterday brainstorming a list of women to feature on the blog this month. It’s Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating specifically women who’ve made contributions to literature and education. Because there are so many, I toyed yesterday with limiting my list to U.S. citizens —…
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Women's History Month
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Read More: Women's History MonthCelebrated in March to coincide with International Women’s Day on the 6th, Women’s History Month highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. This year’s national theme is “Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business,” and here on the blog, similarly to how we celebrated Black…
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Black History Month: Audre Lorde
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Read More: Black History Month: Audre LordeAudre Lorde was a black writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, teacher, and civil rights activist, who described herself as a “lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Her poems and prose largely dealt with issues related to civil rights, feminism, and the exploration of black female identity. Jerome Brooks says in Black Women Writers (1950-1980):…
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Black History Month: Yusef Komunyakaa
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Read More: Black History Month: Yusef KomunyakaaPulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa isn’t just an important author and relevant figure in the celebration of Black History month, he’s important to us personally — as he is an English department alumnus and beloved member of our “Ramily.” Komunyakaa was born and grew up in the small town of…
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Black History Month: Gwendolyn Brooks
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Read More: Black History Month: Gwendolyn BrooksAccording a biography on the Poetry Foundation, “Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most highly regarded, highly influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry.” Most notably, she was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize. She wrote articles, short stories, poetry (publishing more than 20 collections…
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More in Memory of John Pratt
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Read More: More in Memory of John PrattJohn Pratt came to the CSU English Department from the Air Force Academy in 1975, and served as the department head until 1980. He was the college’s first Fulbright professor, having spent a year in Portugal in 1974. During his time as chair, he displayed a deep integrity, a great…
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Black History Month: Phillis Wheatley
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Read More: Black History Month: Phillis WheatleyTaken from Africa when she was only about seven years old, Phillis Wheatley was a slave. She was also the first published African-American female and one of the best-known poets of her time. The family who owned her taught her to read and write, allowed her an education that at the time…
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Black History Month: James Baldwin
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Read More: Black History Month: James BaldwinJames Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Born in Harlem, he loved reading and showed a special talent for writing at an early age. He first published at 21 years old (outside the poems, short stories, and plays he’d published in his high school newspaper),…
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Black History Month: Frederick Douglass
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Read More: Black History Month: Frederick DouglassOur current president didn’t make the traditional official proclamation designating February as Black History Month yesterday, but he did make a statement. Addressing a small group of African American aides and supporters to kick off Black History Month, he mentioned Frederick Douglass, but seemed to be confused about who he…
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Black American History Month: Langston Hughes
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Read More: Black American History Month: Langston HughesJames Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist born on February 1, 1902, (Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes!). He was one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry, and is considered a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. Along with poetry, he wrote…