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Author Statement:Animals, horses, dogs, cats, and visiting wildlife are the gifts that bring me great joy, and so they appear in my poetry. Even rats and skunks are worthy of my poetry. As for humans, I focus on the downtrodden, and those living in slums and hollows---not to forget those living in our iron cities, our prisons. I mourn the deteriorating condition of the planet. I mock those who have elitism and greed at the center of their lives. I also poke fun at myself especially my struggles with aging. In terms of style, I try to balance the trend toward narrative with my love for the early imagists.
You know that if you finish the novel you're working on it would sell - or maybe you have written a story for a children's book. Your colleagues and family tell you it's great, but you don't know what to do next. You're an educator not a writer, and the publishing world seems out of your grasp. Educators as Writers: Publishing for Personal and Professional Development is written by fellow educators and a few editors, who provide a «how-to» to see your name in print. Fifty-four articles cover topics such as memoirs, blogging, children's books, freelancing, finding publishers, author websites, poetry contests, style guides, networking, and using classroom skills to write.
Women have been pivotal in the country music scene since its inception, as Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson make clear in The Women of Country Music. Their groundbreaking volume presents the best current scholarship and writing on female country musicians. Beginning with the 1920s career of teenage guitar picker Roba Stanley, the contributors go on to discuss Polly Jenkins and Her Musical Plowboys, 50s honky-tonker Rose Lee Maphis, superstar Faith Hill, the relationship between Emmylou Harris and poet Bronwen Wallace, the Louisiana Hayride's Margaret Lewis Warwick, and more.
A true crime/narrative nonfiction account of one the youngest Americans ever convicted of murder and sentenced to death. An important, powerful book.
A writing instructor's handbook emphasizing the pedagogical necessity for teachers to practice their craft in conjunction with teaching it. Based on a series of workshops held in Traverse Bay, Michigan, the volume features exercises and examples to prompt the creative writing process, wiring the experiences to classroom application and suggesting practical approaches to subject matter, content, grammar, and integrating media into the writing instruction mix. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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In Making the Unknown Known, leading scholars throughout Texas explore the significant role women artists played in developing early Texas art from the nineteenth century through the latter part of the twentieth century. The biographies presented here allow readers to compare these women’s experiences across time as they negotiated the gendered expectations about artists in society at large and the Texas art community itself. Surveying the contributions women made to the visual arts in the Lone Star state, Making the Unknown Known analyzes women’s artistic work with respect to geographic and historical connections. Including surveys of the work of artists such as Louise Wüste, Emma Rich...