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Winter Poetry Contest: Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize
The Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize is an annual poetry contest for undergraduates of any major...
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Faculty Bookshelf

At the Risk of Seeming Ridiculous: Poems from Cuba Libre
Olguín, Ben

In the tradition of testimonial poets raúlrsalinas, Carolyn Forché, Luís...
Loving in the War Years
Moraga, Cherríe

Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been...
The Subaltern Ulysses
Duffy, Enda

How might an IRA bomb and James Joyce's Ulysses have anything in common? Could this masterpiece of modernism, written at the violent...
Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
Fumerton, Patricia

Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of...
Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph
Abbott, H. Porter

Suppose that, before he is writing fiction, before he is writing drama,...
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday
Fumerton, Patricia

It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them...
The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature
Huang, Yunte
A panoramic vision of the Chinese literary landscape across the twentieth century.
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