Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. She received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Chinese Literature and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Presently, Chin is Professor Emerita at San Diego State University and serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent book is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems (...
Feb 17, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Ronald Schuchard , the Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies, Emeritus, Emory University, is the author of numerous studies of modern authors, particularly T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats. His Eliot’s Dark Angel won the Robert Penn Warren / Cleanth Brooks Prize for outstanding literary criticism, and his The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts won the Robert Rhodes Prize for an outstanding book on Irish literature. He is co-editor with John Kelly of three volu...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 4
Diane Gordon Briggs is the youngest child of Barbara Gordon and astronaut Richard F. Gordon of Gemini XI and Apollo 12. She is a wife, mother of six (like her mom), and a Christian Counselor. Join in with Diane and her closest childhood friend, Tracy L. Scott, as they reminisce over their childhood and their dads’ space adventures during the early days of NASA. Tracy L. Scott is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Emory University. She grew up in Nassau Bay, Texas, as part of the early NASA communit...
Dec 16, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Rose Library's Community Outreach Archivist and Community Conversations host, Lolita Rowe sat down with artists Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, and Carlos Museum curator, Megan O’Neil to explore ideas of community, making connections, collaborative art making, identity, and much more. Explore Marie Watt’s art here . And Cannupa Hanska Luger’s here . For more information on the exhibition Each/Other , which is open to the public through December 12, 2021, visit the Carlos Museum website . Em...
Nov 10, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 2
This fall, a major collection of books and papers related to Bram Stoker's iconic novel Dracula , collected by John Moore, opened to the public. Learn more about this collection here and here . Beth Shoemaker is the Rare Book Librarian at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archive & Rare Book Library in Atlanta. Her work includes cataloging, collection development, teaching and curating exhibits in the Emory Libraries. Follow her Rose Library rare books Instagram here . Eddy Von M...
Oct 27, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 1
In this final episode of Season One of Community Conversations, Nick Sturm , NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics at Emory's Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, does a deep dive into small press publishing with Maureen Owen, legendary publisher of Telephone Books and Telephone Magazine in New York from 1969-1983, bringing many then-unknown poets' books into the world, including Susan Howe, Patricia Spears Jones, and Yuki Hartman. The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, a part of the Rose Library's lit...
Jun 09, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode, Nick Sturm (check out his Twitter and website ) takes a deep dive into the fascinating history of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, which is housed at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. The Danowski is home to over 75,000 poetry books, 50,000 little magazines, and thousand of broadsides, posters, and other ephemera. The collection was donated to the Rose in 2004, and continues to guide the poetry collecting mission. Nick Twemlow is Poetry and Digi...
Apr 14, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath , which has been shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes , which was a Choice/American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title; and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972 , which won the Donald J. Murphy Prize and Robert Rhodes Prize from the American...
Mar 10, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Here are links to more information about Pellom McDaniels and collections discussed during this episode: Lifting Every Voice The Inspiration and Impact of Pellom McDaniels III Frederick Douglass: A Bicentennial Tribute Camille Billops and James V. Hatch archives Richard A. Cecil collection...
Feb 10, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Learn more the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade archive here .
Jan 13, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Jesse R. Peel (1940-) is an HIV positive Atlanta, Georgia, psychiatrist and activist in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community. He was born in Everetts, North Carolina, to J. Woolard (1914-1984) and Helen Peel (1916-2005). He completed his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, graduating from medical school in 1965, completed his internship from 1965-66, and did his residency in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylva...
Dec 10, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Community Conversations is produced by Lolita Rowe & Nick Twemlow. Jacob Chisenhall is our editor. Music created by Sister Sai. Thank you to Caroline Corbitt for logo designs. We are grateful for the support provided by our colleagues at the Rose Library, Jennifer King, director of the Rose Library and Yolanda Cooper, Dean of Emory Libraries. Special thanks to Nikki Giovanni for her words and insight and to her partner, Virginia Fowler. Also to Gabrielle Dudley for conducting this interview ...
Nov 11, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Community Conversations is produced by Lolita Rowe & Nick Twemlow. Jacob Chisenhall is our editor. Music created by Sister Sai. Thank you to Caroline Corbitt for logo designs. We are grateful for the support provided by our colleagues at the Rose Library, Jennifer King, director of the Rose Library and Yolanda Cooper, Dean of Emory Libraries. Special thanks to Nikki Giovanni for her words and insight and to her partner, Virginia Fowler. Also to Gabrielle Dudley for conducting this interview ...
Oct 14, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 1
