February 27, 2019, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Poetry and War: A Reading and Conversation Commemorate World Poetry Day with a reading and conversation between two award-winning contemporary poets whose lives and writings have been impacted by war.
September 10, 2018, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsNotebooks illuminate creative process behind Billy Collins’s poem “The Names” This story originally appeared January 21, 2014. Among the papers in the recently acquired Billy Collins archive are materials related to his poem “The Names,” which was written to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Interspersed throughout the poem are the names of 26 victims of the… read more
May 9, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingCold War culture Erik Mortenson discusses his book Ambiguous Borderlands and the pervasiveness of shadow imagery in Cold War materials. Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) investigates the role shadows play in Cold War literary and popular texts. Informed by research at the Ransom Center,… read more
