Originally Posted: April 30, 2015 [youtube]http://youtu.be/vq57W2Tvbtk[/youtube] WATCH Brownderville claims that poetry can make one’s mind an interesting place to live. He tells stories about his intense relationship with language, his early experiences of poetry, and his dad’s delight in funny-sounding words. Greg Brownderville has published a book of poems titled Gust (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly, 2011) […]
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Wall Street Journal Originally Posted: April 21, 2015 Pulitzers Added a Fourth Novel to Find Fiction Winner Board asked jury to submit another book before selecting ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ The Pulitzer Prize Board this year asked its fiction jury to submit a belated, fourth nominee, in contrast to its handling of the […]
Event Date: Thursday, April 16 Time: 6pm reception, 6:30pm lecture Location: Dedman Life Science Building, room 131 How can we learn to live with things? How do we approach a world so replete, so overburdened with stuff that it’s literally falling apart from the wear? How do we think of ourselves as just another thing among so […]
NY TIMES Originally Posted: April 8, 2015 By: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison At 84, she sits comfortably as one of the greatest authors in American history, even as her uncompromising dream for black literature seems farther away than ever. Not too long ago, Toni Morrison sat in the small kitchen attached […]
Members of the SMU community are invited to a free performance of “For My People: A New Musical Work” on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 7 p.m. at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Clarence Muse Café Theater, 1309 Canton Street, Dallas. Celebrating the centennial of the birth of acclaimed African American poet-scholar-activist Margaret […]
KUAR-UALR Public Radio News & Culture for Arkansas Originally Posted: April 1, 2015 On this episode of Arts & Letters, we sit down with poet and folklorist Greg Brownderville, who hails from Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas. He is the author of Deep Down in the Delta: Folktales and Poems (Butler Center Books, 2011) and Gust (Northwestern […]
TCU 360 Originally Posted: March 29, 2015 William Wells Brown was born into slavery, escaped to London and became the first African-American to publish a novel. An SMU professor visited campus Thursday to discuss the life, travels and cultural significance of one of the most important authors in American history. William Wells Brown is considered […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 24, 2015 Once completed, Dr. Cassedy’s project will be “essential reading for anyone in early American studies.” Dallas (SMU) – Dr. Tim Cassedy, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for his study of linguistic consciousness and awareness among English speakers from […]
Public Radio of Armenia Originally Posted: March 10, 2015 From March 6 to March 7, a conference, entitled “Legacy of the Armenian Genocide 100 years later” was held at the Institute for Global Justice in The Hague. The conference was organized by the National Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) of the Netherlands, […]
KERA Originally Published: March 7, 2015 Today, March 7, marks the 50th anniversary of a bloody milestone in the Civil Rights Movement – when marchers in Selma, Alabama were attacked by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On Friday, a busload from SMU began retracing the route a group of students, faculty and staff took […]