December 10, 2024, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + EventsFreedom to Write, Freedom to Read: The Story of PEN by MARION WYNNE-DAVIES Defending freedom of expression is a crucial issue for writers worldwide. Authors have united to fight for the freedom to write and defend readers’ rights. The most influential of these groups is PEN (originally P.E.N., an acronym for Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists), an international organization… read more
December 10, 2024, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingMilton in Phoenix by AARON T. PRATT Any Shakespeare collector would want a copy of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, which is arguably the most comprehensive history of England, Ireland, and Scotland written during the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. Carl H. Pforzheimer bought a copy of the first edition (1577) for his library of early… read more
December 10, 2024, Filed Under: Authors“Into the Emptiness” by Frederick Seidel “Into the Emptiness” by FREDERICK SEIDEL Into the emptiness that weighs More than the universe Another universe begins Smaller than the last. Begins to smaller Than the last. Dimensions Do not yet exist. My friend, the darkness Into which the seed Of all eleven dimensions Is planted is small. Travel… read more
