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One Mission Accomplished

This morning, I received an email update from a sociology professor at my alma mater, Bridgewater College. The message from Dr. Mwizenge S. Tembo began with this headline: “Mission Accomplished:… more →

Literati in the World

One Mission Accomplished

Jen wrote 1 year ago: This morning, I received an email update from a sociology professor at my alma mater, Bridgewater Co … more →

Tags: Careers in Literature, Lit in the News, books delivered, - Bridgewater College, Bridgewater Magazine, Mwizenge S. Tembo, Nkhanga library project, rural library projects, Zambia Knowledge Libraries

Reading and Return

Jen wrote 1 year ago: When a conversation turns to politics, or religion, or any of the other taboo subjects known to prod … more →

Tags: Favorites, The Book of Politics, Common Reader Second Series, Confrontation, How Should One Read a Book?, Literary Encounters, Virginia Woolf

Poetics of Grief

Jen wrote 1 year ago: Today, Palestine seeks recognition of statehood at the United Nations. Two days ago, President Obama … more →

Tags: Lit in the News, The Book of Politics, Exile, Homeland, Journal of an Ordinary Grief, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine, Poetry, United Nations

The Why Question

Jen wrote 1 year ago: I came across this quote this morning and thought it was worth passing along. “The sciences te … more →

Tags: Lit in the News, Literature For..., ProfoundNet, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, George Lucas, Humanities, Sciences

Our American Story

Jen wrote 2 years ago: Yesterday, the White House played host not only to politicians, but also to poets. The President … more →

Tags: Lit in the News, New Media, Barack Obama, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, First lady, Michelle Obama, Poetry, Rita Dove

Imagination and the Impossible

Jen wrote 2 years ago: A few weeks ago, international bestselling author Salman Rushdie spoke at Duke University on “ … more →

Tags: The Book of Politics, Careers in Literature, Lit in the News, Salman Rushdie, Public Events, private lives, Literature and Politics in the Modern World, Duke University, Vaclav Havel

Get Lit by Poetic Fire

Jen wrote 2 years ago: “Words transform lives. … Books provide a valuable resource and refuge for the human sou … more →

Tags: Literacy, Get Lit!, Words Ignite, Diane Luby Lane, Get Lit Players, Los Angeles, Carol Muske Dukes

Making History Whole

Jen wrote 2 years ago: I was struck yesterday by the similar concerns expressed by two rather different news stories, both … more →

Tags: Literary Theory, Lit in the News, 1984, Mark Twain, constitution, Huckleberry Finn, Jesse Jackson, alan gribben, GEORGE ORWELL

Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature

Jen wrote 2 years ago: Photo: Ulla Montan/Norstedts This week, Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. L … more →

Tags: Lit in the News, Mario Vargas Llosa, nobel prize in literature, The Time of the Hero

To Serve or Not to Serve — 1 comment

Jen wrote 2 years ago: Caught in the Act: Juveniles Sentenced to Shakespeare (Louise Kennedy, Boston Globe) Talk about a ca … more →

Tags: Careers in Literature, Lit in the News, Shakespeare, alternative sentencing, Shakespeare in the courts, Caught in the Act, Juveniles Sentenced to Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Company, Louise Kennedy

Right Now, Write Now — 2 comments

Jen wrote 3 years ago: “Where I’m from, if you tell your mom and dad you want to write poems for a living, they have no clu … more →

Tags: Girls Write Now, Coming Up Taller Award, Maya Nussbaum, GWN, Creative Writing, Mentor

When Whitman Sells Denim — 4 comments

Jen wrote 3 years ago: Sorry for the recent scarcity of posts — the semester is winding down, and spare writing time … more →

Tags: allusions, Lit in the News, New Media, Walter Benjamin, Walt Whitman, Alexander Russo, Levi, advertising

Tell Me a Story, Please

Jen wrote 3 years ago: “The poet [of Beowulf] was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Ger … more →

Tags: ProfoundNet, Lit in the News, npr, Beowulf, Rob Gifford, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Storytellers Star at Edinburgh Fringe, Storytelling, oral poetry

Literati in the World Scoops NPR

Jen wrote 3 years ago: …who is just now running the story (At Newspaper, Poets Report for a Day) that I wrote about l … more →

Tags: allusions, npr, Haaretz, Literati in the World, Scoop, poets report for a day, when literati write the news

Poets Go Tweet Tweet Tweet

Jen wrote 3 years ago: I got interested in Twitter poetry while writing my last post and decided to check it out. Here are … more →

Tags: Literary Theory, New Media, twitter poetry, TwiHaiku, twaiku, Tom Watson, Home is Where You Hang Your @, Servant of Chaos, Baracku

Twitterpoeted From Iran

Jen wrote 3 years ago: For those who fear that new media is the beginning of the end of traditional literature, let’s … more →

Tags: Literary Theory, ProfoundNet, Lit in the News, New Media, npr, twitter poetry, Poetry from Iran one tweet at t a time, Davar Iran Ardalan, Parham Baghestani

Faith and Fiction — 4 comments

Jen wrote 3 years ago: Author Mary E. DeMuth writes in BreakPoint magazine, “What flows to a thirsty world comes from … more →

Tags: Literature For..., CS Lewis, the point, Redeeming Fiction, Mary E. DeMuth, Breakpoint, Chuck Colson, Fiction, Christianity

The Stats Don't Lie...

Jen wrote 3 years ago: School must be out. … more →

Tags: Careers in Literature, plagiarism, Summer Vacation, school is out, School, English class

Cream, Sugar, or Paperback? — 1 comment

Jen wrote 3 years ago: In the 21st century, when books are thought to be on the decline and instant, abbreviated informatio … more →

Tags: Lit in the News, ProfoundNet, Company's ATM For Books Prints on Demand, Dane Neller, EBM, EspressNet, espresso book machine, Gutenberg, npr


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