Tag: harlem renaissance
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July 17, 2006 04:30 PM EDT --
He always wrote
of noir lace and silk
and on page
he bled --
he too,
was America.
He was America's darker
brother who wrote of rivers;
he'd known rivers,
he'd known . . .
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February 01, 2009 03:59 PM EST --
While I was at Bartleby.Com I saw that today is the anniversary of the birth of Langston Hughes. Sadly the way I feel today I cannot do justice to this amazing poet and man. But, I did . . .
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June 10, 2007 08:04 PM EDT --
I have been living in Austin, Texas for over nine months now, and as an intense bibliophile and art aficionado, I always knew that the Harry Ransom Center was somewhere I must visit. You know . . .
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October 25, 2007 07:32 PM EDT --
Women of Power: Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was the first African-American female anthropologist. She rose out of Eatonville . . .
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August 30, 2000 12:00 AM EDT --
It's Wednesday, the 30th of August.
United Bank of Switzerland and Credit Suisse are like Gimbels and Macy's. So when the former bought a big Wall Street name recently, the latter had to respond. Today . . .
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May 30, 2006 09:08 AM EDT --
TUESDAY, 30 MAY, 2006
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Poem: "For All" by Gary Snyder from The Gary Snyder Reader. © Counterpoint. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
For All . . .
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September 10, 2006 08:49 AM EDT --
THE LETTERS OF JEAN TOOMER, 1919-1924, edited by Mark Whalen, with a Foreword by Barbara Foley. U. of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN; www.utpress.org. 2006. 249+xliv pp. $38.00 hardcover, ISBN 1-57233-470-3. . . .
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September 28, 2005 04:02 PM EDT --
SUNDAY, 1 FEBRUARY, 2004
Listen (RealAudio) | How to listen Poem: "Lincoln Theatre," by Langston Hughes, from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage). Lincoln Theatre . . .
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October 13, 2005 09:06 AM EDT --
THURSDAY, 13 OCTOBER, 2005
Listen (RealAudio) | How to listen Poem: "How To Be a Poet" by Wendell Berry from Given: New Poems. (copyright) Shoemaker Hoard, Washington, D.C. Reprinted with . . .
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