Hannah Griggs

Native American Heritage Month 2024: Literary Collections

Posted onOctober 28, 2024AuthorHannah Griggs

In honor of Native American Heritage month in November, we’ve selected a handful of titles written by Native American authors that have been published in recent years. Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (2017) “Whereas” confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, Read More …

National Poetry Month 2023: Spotlight on a Beatnik “little” magazine

Posted onApril 20, 2023September 19, 2023AuthorHannah Griggs1 Comment

April is National Poetry Month! Emory is home to the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, which houses a collection of over 75,000 volumes of rare and first editions of modern and contemporary poetry. Within the Danowski collection are issues of Beatitude, a Beatnik-era “little” magazine first published in 1959. The magazine featured a number of works Read More …