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Pecan Grove Press
Pecan Grove Press publishes primarily poetry books and chapbooks. Though sponsored by the Department of English and The Academic Library of St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, the press is self-supporting. Founded in 1988 by St. Mary's faculty member, Karen Navarte, Pecan Grove Press has served poets for more than 20 years. It receives approximately 300 manuscripts for consideration yearly and has produced more than 110 books. Although the press's scope includes poets from across the state of Texas and as far away as Canada, it remains true to its roots by continuing to publish at least one San Antonio poet each year. Since 1990 H. Palmer Hall, the library director at St. Mary's University, has served as the press's director. In his capacity, Dr. Hall has expanded the mission of Pecan Grove Press by publishing writers from all over the United States, Canada and Mexico while continuing to publish St. Mary's University student poets and writers from the San Antonio area. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapbook
A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered booklets, usually printed on a single sheet folded into books of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages. They were often illustrated with crude woodcuts, which sometimes bore no relation to the text (much like today's stock photos), and were often read aloud to an audience. When illustrations were included in chapbooks, they were considered popular prints. The tradition of chapbooks arose in the 16th century, as soon as printed books became affordable, and rose to its height during the 17th and 18th centuries. Many different kinds of ephemera and popular or folk literature were published as chapbooks, such as almanacs, children's literature, folk tales, ballads, nursery rhymes, pamphlets, poetry, and political and religious tracts. The term "chapbook" for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Antonio, Texas
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Larry D
Lawrence Jones (born January 25, 1984) is an American professional wrestler and promoter. He is best known for his time with Impact Wrestling, where he performed under the ring name Larry D. Professional wrestling career Impact Wrestling (2019–2022) On October 19, 2019, Larry D lost to Acey Romero in the main event of Impact Wrestling's All Glory special. On February 22, 2020 at Sacrifice, Romero teamed up with Larry D to defeat oVe (Dave Crist and Madman Fulton). Larry D solidified his partnership with Romero on the March 31 episode of ''Impact!'', forming a tag team called "XXXL". On the April 14 episode of ''Impact!'', they made their debut in a four-way tag team match against The Rascalz ( Dez and Wentz), Reno Scum (Adam Thornstowe and Luster the Legend) and TJP and Fallah Bahh, the latter winning after TJP pinned Thornstowe. The following week on Night 1 of Rebellion, they fought in a three-way tag team match against The Rascalz and TJP and Fallah Bahh, the former winni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Fargnoli
Patricia Fargnoli (November 16, 1937 – February 18, 2021) was an American poet and psychotherapist. She was the New Hampshire Poet Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009. Biography Fargnoli was an alumna of Trinity College (Connecticut), Trinity College, Hartford College for Women, and the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Fargnoli's books of poetry include ''Necessary Light'' (Utah State University Press, 1999), winner of the May Swenson Book Award; ''Lives of Others'' (Oyster River Press, 2001); ''Small Songs of Pain'' (Pecan Grove Press, 2003); ''Duties of the Spirit'' (Tupelo Press, 2005) which won the Jane Kenyon Literary Award for Outstanding Poetry by a New Hampshire poet; and, most recently, ''Then, Something'' (also from Tupelo Press, 2009), which won the 2009 Foreword Review Best of the Year Silver Award in Poetry. She was the recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. Her poems appeared in magazines and literary journals including ''Poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vince Gotera
Vince Gotera (; born June 20, 1952) is an American poet and writer, best known as Editor of the ''North American Review''. In 1996, Nick Carbó called him a "leading Filipino-American poet of this generation"; later, in 2004, Carbó described him as "one of the leading Asian American poets ... willing to take a stance against American imperialism." Life Born Vicente Ferrer Gotera on June 20, 1952, to Candida Fajardo Gotera and Martin Avila Gotera, immigrants from the Philippines. He was born and raised in San Francisco, but spent some time as a child in the Philippines.Blog: ''The Man with the Blue Guitar'', "Autobiography (1.0)." Retrieved 2009-09-28. In 1971, Gotera started college at |
Wendy Barker
Wendy Barker (September 22, 1942 – March 11, 2023) was an American poet. She was Poet-in-Residence and the Pearl LeWinn Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she taught since 1982. Biography Barker was born September 22, 1942, in Summit, New Jersey, but grew up in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. Between 1968 and 1982 she lived in Berkeley, California. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Arizona State University and her Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California at Davis. Barker also taught high school English in Scottsdale, Arizona, between 1966–68 and in Berkeley, between 1968 and 1972. She was married to the critic Steven G. Kellman. Her sixth collection of poems is ''One Blackbird at a Time'', winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry (BkMk Press, 2015). Her fourth chapbook is ''From the Moon, Earth is Blue'' (Wings Press, 2015). An anthology, ''Far Out: Poems of the 60s'', co-edited with David M. Parsons, was published by Wings Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Brendan Hopes
David Brendan Hopes (born 1950 in Akron, Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...) is an American author, playwright, and poet. He is a professor of literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Early life Works He is the author of ''Bird Songs of the Mesozoic'', ''Abbott's Dance'' , ''Man in Flight'' , '' Edward The King'', ''7 Reece Mews'' , ''A Dream of Adonis'', ''A Sense of the Morning'' and '' A Childhood in the Milky Way''. Works in poetry include The Glacier's Daughters (U of Mass Press) which won the Juniper and the Saxifrage Prizes; The Basswood Tree (Franciscan Press) Blood Rose (Urthona Press), A Dream of Adonis (Pecan Grove) and Peniel (St. Julian Press). Milkweed Editions published two collections of nature essays, ''A Sense of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Morton
Colin Morton (born 1948) is a Canadian poet. Personal life Morton was born in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Calgary, Alberta and has worked as a teacher and editor. His poetry and fiction have appeared in ''Descant'', ''The Fiddlehead'', ''Arc'', ''Grain'', ''The Malahat Review'', ''Ascent'', and ''The North American Review'' among many other publications. He was a member of the performance group ''First Draft'' which recorded, published, and performed some 40 times across Canada in the 1980s. More recently, his poetry has explored aspects of world history. In 1986 and again in 2001 he won the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. His book of poetry ''The Merzbook'' was inspired by the life and work of Kurt Schwitters Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, Constructivism (art), constructivism, surrealism ..., and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Lyons
Bonnie Lyons (born July 4, 1944) is an American writer and academic. Biography Bonnie Lyons was born in Brooklyn, New York and lived there until she was five years old, at which point she moved to Miami Beach, Florida. Her grandparents were Benjamin and Rebecca Kaplan and Benjamin and Rose Dubrow, all of whom were originally from Minsk, Belarus and immigrated in the early twentieth century. Benjamin Dubrow was the founder of the famous Dubrow's Cafeteria, and Bonnie would work there in the summers, often taking orders over the phone. She was president of her class at Miami Beach High School, but never graduated from high school, choosing instead to leave early and attend Newcomb College at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She completed her undergraduate and graduate work at Tulane and received her PhD in English Literature in 1973. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas and is a full professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is married to Grant L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Peckham
Joel B. Peckham, Jr. is an American poet, scholar of American literature and a creative writer. Education Peckham graduated from Middlebury College. Career He has taught at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Hope College, and the Georgia Military College. He currently teaches at Marshall University. He has worked as an editorial assistant for the ''Prairie Schooner'', and is also co-founding editor of ''Milkwood Review''. His work has appeared in ''American Literature'', ''Ascent'', the ''Black Warrior Review'', ''The Literary Review'', ''The Malahat Review'', The ''Mississippi Quarterly'', the ''North American Review'', '' Passages North'', '' River Teeth'', the ''Sycamore Review'', ''The Southern Review'', '' Texas Studies in Language and Literature'', '' Under the Sun'', and ''Yankee Magazine''. His work, out of the tradition of Neo-Romantic and Open-Form 20th Century Poets such as James Dickey and Allen Ginsberg employs a Whitmanesque line to explore the limits of em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Publishing Companies Based In Texas
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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