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Poetry and War: A Reading and Conversation

February 27, 2019 - Suzanne Krause

Commemorate World Poetry Day with a reading and conversation between two award-winning contemporary poets whose lives and writings have been impacted by war. [Read more…] about Poetry and War: A Reading and Conversation

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection, poet, poetry, war

A nomad’s writing finds a home

September 25, 2017 - Stephen Enniss

Q&A with Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje began his career as a poet but is best known as the author of the 1992 Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient, which was made into a critically-acclaimed motion picture. He was born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in 1943; he moved to Canada at age 18. [Read more…] about A nomad’s writing finds a home

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Acquisitions, Canada, Man Booker Prize, Michael Ondaatje, PEN, poet, poetry, Sri Lanka, steven enniss, The English Patient

Archive of Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient,” acquired

September 25, 2017 - Suzanne Krause

The archive of award-winning author Michael Ondaatje has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center. Ondaatje, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel “The English Patient,” is widely regarded as one of the finest English-language novelists writing today. [Read more…] about Archive of Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient,” acquired

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: Acquisitions, Canada, Don DeLillo, J. M. Coetzee, James Salter, Jayne Anne Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, novelist, poet, release, Sri Lanka, The English Patient

A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

April 27, 2017 - Danielle Sigler

The first page of A Wild Plaint, 1909. Christopher Morley Collection.

In the midst of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the editorial board of the Book-of-the-Month Club). [Read more…] about A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: A Wild Plaint, A. K. White, African American Review, African-American, Aubrey Grey, Chicago, Christopher Morley, Danielle Brune Sigler, diary, Doubleday, Fenton Johnson, fiction, manuscript, novel, poet, poetry

Bringing Anne Sexton back into the conversation: Q&A with Amanda Golden

November 22, 2016 - Marissa Kessenich

Anne Sexton, n.d. (Anne Sexton Literary File, Photography Collection, container PH:LH, Sexton, A, box 3, accession no. 981:0089:0060. Anne Sexton literary file, Harry Ransom Center.

Amanda Golden’s collection of essays This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton brings new attention to Anne Sexton’s poetry, archives, and legacy. [Read more…] about Bringing Anne Sexton back into the conversation: Q&A with Amanda Golden

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: All My Pretty Ones, Amanda Golden, Anita Helle, Anne Sexton, Christopher Grobe, Fellowships, Kamran Javadizadeh, Live or Die, poet, poetry, Sylvia Plath, This Business of Words, University Press of Florida

Billy Collins’s recommended reads

October 25, 2016 - Harry Ransom Center

Billy Collins. ©Suzannah Gilman.

Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States, was honored by The Poetry Society of America in May at their annual benefit. [Read more…] about Billy Collins’s recommended reads

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: archive, Billy Collins, poet, poet laureate, poetry, recommended reading

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