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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The Vibe | AFROPUNK Fest 2015
AFROPUNK 2015 is coming Join us in Atlanta’s Central Park in the Old Fourth Ward for a weekend of live music, vibrant art and good vibes on Saturday, October 3rd and Sunday, October 4th. To say thanks for the support, we’re offering exclusive access to Early Bird tickets to members of the AFROPUNK community. To access…
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Tune In & Listen to 101.1FM Dallas’ JAZZ AT FAIR PARK
Tune in Sunday Evenings 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm NEW…ONLY ON WRR…JAZZ AT FAIR PARK Jazz at Fair Park is a new, weekly program produced by WRR-FM (101.1), Dallas’ station for classical music and the arts. Produced and broadcast from the historic WRR studios in Fair Park, the program airs Sunday evening from 7 to 8…
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Public Panel and Reception: Poetry and Its Futures
Poetry and Its Futures An opening panel of distinguised poets and literary scholars will forecast probable trajectories for poetry in the 21st century. Panelists include Kevin Young (Emory University), Frank X Walker (University of Kentucky), Lauri Ramey (California State University), Megan Kaminski (KU English), Stephanie Fitzgerald (KU English) and moderator Joanne Gabbin (James madison University).…
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New Episode: Juneteenth Jamboree | Texas’ African American Heritage
From PBS.org: “Dressed to kill from head to feet. Baskets full of food to eat. You can’t get this on your TV: The Juneteenth Jamboree!” -Gladys Bentley In the United States, the institution of slavery ended at different times in different places. The states of Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York had constitutional bans against slavery in place before the…
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Black Male Artists Pay Tribute to Unarmed Black Men and Youth in America
From Culturetype: OVER THE PAST YEAR, visual artists have responded to the steady clip of national news stories about unarmed black men and youth being killed by police. Titus Kaphur painted the Ferguson, Mo., protestors for Time magazine; Dred Scott wrote an essay titled “Illegitimate” for the Walker Art Center on the killing of Michael…
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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