By Maureen McGavin Poets and friends Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young met as Harvard undergraduates, became part of the Dark Room Collective, and journeyed from rising talents to established poets. Now their papers cross paths at the Rose Library. Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young were budding poets and Harvard undergraduates in the early…
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Come Celebrate With Me: An Exhibition on the Work of Lucille Clifton
The Lucille Clifton Exhibition Come Celebrate With Me: The Work of Lucille Clifton is currently on display in the MARBL gallery on the 10th Floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The exhibit is co-curated by Kevin Young, Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at MARBL, and Amy Hildreth Chen, Emory…
Writers: Kevin Young
The Writers exhibition, on display in the Schatten Gallery until November, features photographer Nancy Crampton’s pictures of authors,poets, novelists, journalists and other writers. A small selection of MARBL materials, chosen by guest curators from the Emory community,complements each photo. The materials illuminate the connections the writers have with each other and the special collections in…
Rose Library Blog
- New Digitized Collection: William H. Scott Family Papers March 6, 2023Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is excited to announce the addition of a new digital collection to Emory Digital Collections. The William H. Scott Family Papers is a manuscript collection from the family of William H. Scott (1848-1910), who was a Black Baptist minister and political activist who was...Erin Glogowski
- Carter G. Woodson, The Father of Black History at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library February 13, 2023As we observe Black History Month we look to Carter G. Woodson, who is known as the Father of Black History. Rose Library holds a collection of materials from Woodson’s library which includes, correspondence, photographs, and books. Woodson with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, an organization he helped found announced...Erin Glogowski
- Ernest Hartsock’s Bozart Magazine: An Oasis in the Sahara January 30, 2023Siân Round is very near to finishing a PhD in English at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines literary magazines in the American South between 1921 and 1945. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, The Cambridge Quarterly, and Review of English Studies. Who was Ernest...Erin Glogowski
- How Ebony magazine engaged and reacted to the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s January 10, 2023Sid Ahmed ZIANE is a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University. He studies African American history and his area of interest revolves around race and media in Post-war America. He is currently working on a project which looks at the correlation between the modern black print media and the modern black liberation movement in the US....Erin Glogowski
- Personality and the Passage of Time in Handwritten Letters December 20, 2022Colin Newton is a writer from Los Angeles whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Ignatian, Westwind, Maudlin House, Red Planet Magazine, The Fabulist and Northridge Review. Newton was a 2018 Trillium Project resident at Oregon State University’s Shotpouch Cabin, and has years of experience as a freelance writer and writing instructor. Research conducted...Erin Glogowski