NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
Take a moment to rewind and catch up on the latest updates in the art library – now archived.
Get a free Official National Poetry Month Poster. Featuring artwork by Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton.
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Hidden Charm Press Seeks Black Women Women Writers: The Power of Sisterhood
From Hidden Charm Press: Hidden Charm Press seeks submissions from Black women for the print anthology “Extra MoJo! #3” on the theme The Power of Sisterhood. The submissions period is March 1 – June 15, 2017 for a summer release. There is no submission fee, and this is a nonpaying market (meaning writers will receive…
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FREE Online Forum: Black Women and the Politics of Respectability
From Black Perspectives Black Perspectives is collaborating with SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society to host an online forum on “Black Women and the Politics of Respectability.” The forum begins on Monday, April 24, 2017 and concludes on Friday, April 28, 2017. It will feature essays by Ralina L. Joseph (University…
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Libraries in the Jim Crow South and A Conversation with One of the Tougaloo Nine
From ALA.org In celebration of Black History Month, join author Cheryl Knott (“Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow”) and Civil Rights activist Geraldine Hollis (author of “Back to Mississippi”), along with artists Michael Crowell and Chapel Hill Library Director Susan Brown, for an engaging and educational conversation on…
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Hip Hop Librarianship: Leaders of the New School
From ART_library deco: Recently, I had the opportunity to create the book jacket for the Hip Hop Librarian Consortium’s first e-book bibliographic series, to be published later this month. Download the free book on March 24, 2017, here: http://www.hiphoplibrarianship.wordpress.com
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Typographic Poster: ‘And Still I Rise’
From Katherine-Kelly.com: ‘And Still I Rise’ Typographic Poster Poem by Maya Angelou This poster is an exploration in typographic voice. I was prompted with a body of text and was asked to choose and convey a voice for that piece of writing. After many rounds of exploration, I chose a Paula Sher inspired treatment. I…
Cover Image Courtesy, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1893). Phillis Wheatley Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7329-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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