We're counting down the days! Sandra Cisneros will visit TAMIU Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 6 p.m., sharing a reading, Q&A, and book signing in the TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Twice before — in 1984 and 2005 — @nytimesbooks asked promising writers who inspired them. For the Book Review’s 125th anniversary, we hear from a new generation of writers about their inspirations. https://t.co/iH87SnemWO
@Emily_Isaacson You are amazing Emily! I'm inspired by all that you've accomplished. I wish we lived closer so we could chat and let our boys play together.
"Poetry...lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."—Audre Lorde in SISTER OUTSIDER.
Happy #NationalPoetryMonth! Tell us the poems that inspire you! Who's a poet you love? What's a poem you keep coming back to?
In our latest episode of the #C19Podcast, @FashLydia considers the breadth and impact of pirates in C19 literature. Come for the ballads--stay for the infectious laughter and pirate-joke stylings of some charming stowaways. No fooling! https://t.co/O13uSV6DAd
If you're "attending" #nemla21 today please make time to stop by the awesome panels that Karen Sánchez-Eppler and I will be running at 1:30 and 3:15 EST. We'll be talking consanguinity and alternative depictions of families and communities in Am. Lit!
Today, I am directing every state to prioritize educators for vaccination. We want every educator, school staff member, and child-care worker to receive at least one shot by the end of this month.
It’s time to treat in-person learning like the essential service that it is.
Starting Langston Hughes in my Major American Authors of the 20C class today, including this wonderful recording of him discussing & reading one of his earliest poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." #todayspoem@PedagogyAmLitSt
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It’s time for a conference! This October 14-16 in Orlando. Virtual and in-person options. Click the link in our bio to learn how to register, become a member, and see the call for papers. Virtual and in-person options. #fcea#fcea_online
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail