January 2019 – Rose Library News

The Process, So Far

Posted onJanuary 10, 2019August 17, 2023AuthorCourtney E. Chartier

Andrew Kingston is the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow at the Rose Library. Throughout the year, he will be blogging about his experience processing the records of The American Music Show. Not long ago, I arrived in the archive, on my second cup of coffee, and proceeded—from the Latin cedere, both “to go” and “to Read More …

It’s a Small Auld World: Gossip, ‘Slabber’ and Irish Poetry

Posted onJanuary 9, 2019August 17, 2023AuthorCourtney E. Chartier

In December 2018, Scott McKendry conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short Term Fellowship Program. Mr. McKendry is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast. Poets love gossip. In fact, one might argue that poetry itself is a form of highly-tuned gossip. Poets tells the not quite truth about the Read More …