Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books, 15 August–8 November 2020, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (featuring an interview with Andrea Davis Pinkney)
15 August–8 November 2020, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta INTRODUCTION Since spring, the coronavirus pandemic has forced art museums and galleries across the country to halt their programming, and while many have reopened, many would-be patrons remain unable to resume the travel or outings they look forward to in ordinary times. In the portfolio […]
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Still the Talk of the Town: Literary Work and the New Yorker (on Janet Carey Eldred’s Literate Zeal: Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos; & Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence, edited by Joelle Biele)
IN Fall 2013
Work and Life, in the Balance (on Mary Hood’s Seam Busters; Ann Pancake’s Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley; & Monica McFawn’s Bright Shards of Someplace Else)
IN Fall 2015
C. J. Bartunek: “The Circus Train” gives a feeling of a whole life distilled into this one elegantly spare essay. In it, you write, “This could be called a pre-posthumous memoir.” Would you tell me about how you came to write this piece and about what your vision of it was when you first conceived […]
Read MoreOn the last evening in January 2013, I had the good fortune to stop by Coleman Barks’s home in Athens to interview him about his long poem “The VOICE inside WATER,” which appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of The Georgia Review and subsequently in his recently released collection, Hummingbird Sleep: Poems, 2009–2011 (University of […]
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