In Memoriam: Remembering Derek Mahon
“I am going home by sea For the first time in years.” (‘Afterlives,’ Derek Mahon) Geraldine Higgins specializes in Irish…
Literature and Poetry
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New Rose Library Podcast series: “Rose Library Presents”
The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is excited to announce the launch of “Rose Library Presents”;…
By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of our Nation’s Capit ...
Kim Roberts is the editor of By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of our Nation’s Capital (University of…
Libraries, Within Libraries, Within Libraries
This summer, Emory Alumna Candice Butts 10C, was an intern for the Raymond Danowski Library. As an Emory alumna, a…
Nikki Giovanni is Amazing! Two New Videos
Even though National Poetry Month ends today, we hope these new videos featuring the indelible poet Nikki Giovanni will linger…
Seamus Heaney and the Radiance of Catholicism
In February 2020, Gary Wade conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a Rose Fellow. Mr. Wade is a…
Recent Literature and Poetry
She Puts Things In: Toni Morrison and the Legacy of Black Women Writers
In partnership with Emory University’s Rose Library and the Exhibitions team of Woodruff Library, Georgia Public Library Service is launching a tour of She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers to libraries statewide. Curated by Gabrielle Dudley,...
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath Experience “Poppy Day” in Cambridge
Di Beddow conducted research at the Rose Library in April 2018 as a recipient of a short-term fellowship. She is writing up her PhD thesis on “The Cambridge of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath” under supervision at Queen Mary University,...
The Literary Letter and the Archive
In June 2019, Dr. Sarah Bennett conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short-Term Fellowship Program. Dr. Bennett is a Lecturer in English at Oriel College, Oxford. The Rose Library at Emory offers particular riches for...
Queer O’Connor: Surprises from the Archives
In February 2019, Sean DiLeonardi conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short-Term Fellowship Program. Mr. DiLeonardi is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina Chapel...
Suspense in the Archive, or: Did the Mid-Century Avant-garde Have a Southern Accent ...
In July 2018, Dr. Anna Ioanes conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short Term Fellowship program. Dr. Ioanes is Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis. Archival research can be a suspenseful...
Talking back: bringing Beat counterculture into the modern era through dance
Author William S. Burroughs said, “In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.” Burroughs was certainly the former. He was a lifelong heroin addict, who wrote explicitly and affectionately of his drug use. He was...