It’s been awhile since the last Eclectique Interview. This will be the second interview with a poet. That’s Sarah Browning, director of D.C. Poets Against the War and Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Sarah is also author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007), and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the [...]
Project 60 Friday, November 19, 1:30 PM Gelman Library, George Washington University The Special Collections Research Center at GWU’s Gelman Library will honor E-bert! — that’s E. Ethelbert Miller on the first day of his 6th Inning (read 60th birthday). When Ethelbert invited me to moderate the panel of family and friends on his writers [...]
I happen to be browsing on the JackandJill Politics blog, and decided to take a look at this Politico widget – The White House calendar. As my schedule is too full sometimes to commit to my blog as I’d like, I thought I’d take an easy out, copy some code. 7:47 tonight the President and [...]
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has tapped poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher Elizabeth Alexander to deliver the inaugural poem January 20th. Alexander grew up in DC (Yay!). She teaches at Yale University and is a scholar of African American literature and culture. [Click on Alexander's name above to visit her website.] [...]
