Everett Anderson’s Year, by Lucille Clifton The Lucille Clifton Exhibition “She Sang So Sweet:” Lucille Clifton’s Children’s Literature is currently on display on the 2nd Floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The exhibit is curated by Amy Hildreth Chen, Emory PhD student in English. The following is the essay which accompanies the exhibition, written…
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What Watches Me?: A Preview of the Upcoming Lucille Clifton Exhibit
by Amy Hildreth Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Research Assistant to Kevin Young What “early in the morning/it shines its glassy eye”? The Window. What “sees me wander/ in and out/ and never stops to cry”? The Door. These riddles and more can be found in Lucille Clifton‘s first children’s book, What…
Rose Library Blog
- Join our growing team! May 26, 2023By Jennifer Gunter King, Director of Rose Library The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library seeks nominations and applications for our next Curator of African American Collections and Curator for Literature and Poetry Collections positions. If you envision building library collections that advance research and public interests as part of a dynamic research...Erin Glogowski
- “An archivist of some kind that will come to my house after I am gone” – the Lucinda Bunnen Papers May 16, 2023by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the fifth post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. Today I accomplished something I had desired to do for a while: I managed to get the entirety of Lucinda’s collection onto one floor. To work on...Gaby Hale
- ‘Untitled’: A Collaborative Dance & Photography-Based Activation May 11, 2023written by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist for Rose Library. This month, visitors to the For Keeps Bookstore and Auburn Avenue Research Library will have the opportunity to watch performances curated by Sierra King and Rose Library’s Anicka Austin. The pair have been working together on a dance and performance-based activation that reflects their archival...Gaby Hale
- The Great Speckled Bird: Researching Georgia’s Radical Press and the New Left May 10, 2023Amanda Stafford is a PhD student at the University of Leeds in the UK. Her research looks at the interconnected histories of the radical press and the New Left in Georgia between 1968 and 1976. I was awarded a Stuart A. Rose Short Term Fellowship back in 2020 at the height of the Covid lockdown...Gaby Hale
- “A very personal, life-long pursuit” – the Lucinda Bunnen Papers May 3, 2023by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers This is the fourth post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. “Making photographs represents a very personal, life-long pursuit, rather than a chronological record of events or places.” – Lucinda Bunnen After accessioning and minimally processing the first...Gaby Hale