Which associate professor for Tulane edited a poetry collection whose title alludes to James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"?
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The Fire This Time (essay collection) The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race is a 2016 essay and poetry collection edited by Jesmyn Ward, the title alluding to James Baldwin's seminal 1963 text "The Fire Next Time".
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Jesmyn Ward Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and an associate professor of English at Tulane University. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and a 2012 Alex Award with her second novel "Salvage the Bones", a story about familial love and community covering the 10 days preceding Hurricane Katrina, the day of the cyclone, and the day after. Prior to her appointment at Tulane, Ward was an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama. From 2008 to 2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010–2011 academic year. Ward joined the faculty at Tulane in the fall of 2014. In 2013 she released her memoir "Men We Reaped".
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Katie Baldwin Katie Baldwin is an American printmaker and book artist living in Huntsville, Alabama. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia). She served as a Victor Hammer Fellow at Wells College from 2011-2013. Baldwin produced the book "Treasure" at Women's Studio Workshop. Baldwin maintains a blog at Queen Anne's Revenge Press with illustrations and discussions of her art. She has taught pochoir, woodcut, reductive woodcut, and book art classes at the Center for Book Arts.
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Andrei Codrescu Andrei Codrescu (] ; born December 20, 1946) is a Romanian-American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He was the Mac Curdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009.
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Marlys West Marlys West is an American poet and writer. She received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She also received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book of poems titled "Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr" was published by the University of Akron Press. She has had work published in many literary journals and magazines; her work has also appeared in the anthology series "The Best American Poetry".
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Elizabeth Alexander (poet) Elizabeth Alexander (born May 30, 1962) is an American poet, essayist, playwright. After 15 years at Yale University, where she taught poetry and chaired the African American Studies department, Alexander joined the faculty of Columbia University in 2016.
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Thomas McCarthy (poet) Thomas McCarthy (born 1954) is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, Ireland. He attended University College Cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague. Among his contemporaries, described by Thomas Dillon Redshaw as "that remarkable generation," there were Theo Dorgan poet and memoirist, Sean Dunne, poet, Greg Delanty, poet, Maurice Riordan poet and William Wall, novelist and poet. McCarthy edited, at various times, The Cork Review and Poetry Ireland Review. He has published seven collections of poetry with Anvil Press Poetry, London, including " The Sorrow Garden", "The Lost Province", "Mr Dineen's Careful Parade", "The Last Geraldine Officer" ("a major achievement", in the view of academic and poet Maurice Harmon)and "Merchant Prince", described as "an ambitious and substantive book". The main themes of his poetry are Southern Irish politics, love and memory. He is also the author of two novels; "Without Power" and "Asya and Christine". He is married with two children and lives in Cork City where he works in the City Libraries. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1977. His monograph "Rising from the Ashes" tells the story of the burning of the Carnegie Free Library in Cork City by the Black and Tans in 1920 and the subsequent efforts to rebuild the collection with the help of donors from all over the world.
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Warren Woessner Warren Woessner (born 1944), poet and lawyer, studied creative writing with James McConkey and A. R. Ammons at Cornell University. He moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1966 and co-founded "Abraxas Magazine" with poet James Bertolino in 1968. He was also a founder of WORT-FM and hosted its poetry program. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971. His poetry has appeared in "Poetry", "Poetry Northwest", "The Nation", "Midwest Quarterly", "CutBank", "Poet Lore", and "5 A.M." Woessner's poetry and literary reviews have been published in "The New York Times Book Review", "American Book Review", "Rain Taxi", and "Midwest Review".
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Bradford Morrow Bradford Morrow (born April 8, 1951) is an American novelist, editor, essayist, poet, and children's book writer. Professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College, he is the founding editor of "Conjunctions" literary magazine.
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James Baldwin James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and social critic. His essays, as collected in "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, for instance "The Fire Next Time" (1963), "No Name in the Street" (1972), and "The Devil Finds Work" (1976). An unfinished manuscript, "Remember This House", was expanded upon and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film "I Am Not Your Negro".
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Willis Patterson Willis Charles Patterson (born November 27, 1930) is an African-American bass-baritone, editor, music arranger, and professor emeritus/longtime Associate Dean of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. A Fulbright Scholar and the winner of the Marian Anderson Award, he has performed in opera houses and concert halls internationally. He has served as president of the National Association of Negro Musicians and as executive secretary of the National Black Music Caucus. In 1977 he edited what "The New York Times" described as a "groundbreaking anthology of black art songs."
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Nicole Walker (writer) Nicole Walker is an American essayist, poet, and professor.
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G. Winston James G. Winston James is an American poet, essayist, editor, and activist. His poetry collections include "Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road" and "The Damaged Good".
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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou is author and poet Maya Angelou's collection of poetry, published by Random House in 1994. It is Angelou's first collection of poetry published after she read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. It contains her previous five books of poetry, published between 1971—1990. Her prose works have been more successful than her poetry, which has received little serious attention by critics.
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Major Jackson Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor. He is the author of four collections of poetry: Roll Deep (W.W. Norton, 2015), Holding Company (W.W. Norton, 2010) and Hoops (W.W. Norton, 2006), finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle.
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Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published five poetry collections. His 2010 collection, "Lighthead", won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur fellowships awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work.
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Graham Foust Graham W. Foust (born August 25, 1970) is an American poet and currently is an associate professor at the University of Denver.
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Roger Dickinson-Brown Roger Dickinson-Brown (1944–2015) was an American poet, author and teacher who wrote in English and French. After studying under Yvor Winters at Stanford University, he published and broadcast poems, criticism and reviews (Song, The Southern Review, World Order, WONO-FM) in the 1970s, and taught in the Program in Writing Arts at the State University of New York at Oswego.
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Armstrong Browning Library The Armstrong Browning Library is located on the campus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA and is the home of the largest collections of English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Additionally it is thought to house the largest collection of secular stained glass in the world.
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Cathy Smith Bowers Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949) is an American poet and professor. She teaches poetry in an M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte. Bowers was named by Governor Bev Perdue as the sixth North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2010–2012. She has published five collections of poetry.
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Paul Lake (poet) Paul Lake (born Baltimore) is an American poet, essayist, and professor at Arkansas Tech University. "Another Kind of Travel" won the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence.
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Mark Yakich Mark Yakich is an American poet, novelist, and the Gregory F. Curtin, S.J., Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. Yakich co-founded and co-edits Airplane Reading, a media venue dedicated to collecting travelers' stories about flight. He is also the editor of "New Orleans Review".