District Of Columbia Poets

Author : Kim Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813941172
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Literary Guide to Washington, DC written by Kim Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation's most acclaimed writers. From the city's founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston have lived and worked at their craft in our nation's capital ... Part walking tour, part anthology, [this book] is organized into five sections, each corresponding to a particularly vibrant period in Washington's literary [history]"--Amazon.com.

Author : Garrett Peck
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626199736
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C. written by Garrett Peck and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to the nation's capital at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union officer wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Whitman eventually served as a volunteer "hospital missionary," making more than six hundred hospital visits and serving over eighty thousand sick and wounded soldiers in the next three years. With the 1865 publication of Drum-Taps, Whitman became poet laureate of the Civil War, aligning his legacy with that of Abraham Lincoln. He remained in Washington until 1873 as a federal clerk, engaging in a dazzling literary circle and fostering his longest romantic relationship, with Peter Doyle. Author Garrett Peck details the definitive account of Walt Whitman's decade in the nation's capital.

Author : Jessica A. Grieser
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1647121531
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Side of the River written by Jessica A. Grieser and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia–a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, DC–to explore the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and language. Grieser’s work is a call to center Black lived experiences in urban research.

Author : Shilpi Malinowski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143967390X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaw, LeDroit Park & Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C. written by Shilpi Malinowski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let residents tell you what it's been like to live in D.C.'s most gentrified neighborhood. When Gretchen Wharton came to Shaw in 1946, the houses were full of families that looked like hers: lower-income, African American, two parents with kids. The sidewalks were full of children playing. When Leroy Thorpe moved in in the 1980s, the same streets were dense with drug markets. When John Lucier found a deal on a house in Shaw in 2002, he found himself moving into one of four occupied homes on his block. Every morning, he waited by himself on the empty platform of the newly opened metro station. When Preetha Iyengar became pregnant with her first child in 2016, she jumped into a seller's market to buy a rowhouse in the area. Journalist and Shaw resident Shilpi Malinowski explores the complexities of the many stories of belonging in the District's most dynamic neighborhood.

Author : Remi Kanazi
Publisher : Al Jisser
ISBN 13 : 9781930083097
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets for Palestine written by Remi Kanazi and published by Al Jisser. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems and prints predominately by self-identified Palestinian poets living in the United States.

Author : Kim Roberts
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813944767
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Broad Potomac's Shore written by Kim Roberts and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacation in the US capital," Kim Roberts returns with a comprehensive anthology of poems by both well-known and overlooked poets working and living in the capital from the city’s founding in 1800 to 1930. Roberts expertly presents the work of 132 poets, including poems by celebrated DC writers such as Francis Scott Key, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce, Henry Adams, and James Weldon Johnson, as well as the work of lesser-known poets—especially women, writers of color, and working-class writers. A significant number of the poems are by writers who were born enslaved, such as Fanny Jackson Coppin, T. Thomas Fortune, and John Sella Martin. The book is arranged thematically, representing the poetic work happening in our nation’s capital from its founding through the Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, and the beginnings of literary modernism. The city has always been home to prominent poets—including presidents and congressmen, lawyers and Supreme Court judges, foreign diplomats, US poets laureate, professors, and inventors—as well as writers from across the country who came to Washington as correspondents. A broad range of voices is represented in this incomparable volume.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book District of Columbia Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : District of Columbia. Board of Commissioners
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia ... written by District of Columbia. Board of Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Ray Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880016060
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book Between the Thorns written by M. Ray Allen and published by . This book was released on 1991-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maurice Jackson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626165904
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DC Jazz written by Maurice Jackson and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Poems -- Introduction -- 1 Jazz, "Great Black Music," and the Struggle for Racial and Social Equality in Washington, DC -- 2 Seventh Street: Black DC's Musical Mecca -- 3 Washington's Duke Ellington -- 4 Bill Brower: Notes from a Keen Observer and Scene Maker -- 5 Jazz Radio in Washington, DC -- 6 Legislating Jazz -- 7 The Beautiful Struggle: A Look at Women Who Have Helped Shape the DC Jazz Scene -- 8 No Church without a Choir: Howard University and Jazz in Washington, DC -- 9 From Federal City College to UDC: A Retrospective on Washington's Jazz University -- 10 Researching Jazz History in Washington, DC -- List of Contributors -- Photo Credits and Permissions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z