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Stephen Motika
Stephen Motika (born 1977 in Santa Monica, CA) is an American poet, editor, and publisher. Life and work Motika is the publisher of Nightboat Books, a literary non-profit publisher based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the editor of Leland Hickman's ''Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman'' (2009), and the author of the chapbooks "Arrival and At Mono" (2007) and "In the Madrones" (2011), both published by Sona Books. His first book of poems, ''Western Practice'', was published by Alice James Books in April 2012. Motika's work has appeared in t''he National Post of Canada'', ''Another Chicago Magazine'', and ''The Common Review''. ''The Field'', his collaboration with visual artist Dianna Frid, was on view at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in December 2003. He worked at Poets House Poets House is a national literary center and poetry library based in New York City. It contains more than 70,000 volumes of poetry, and is free and open to the public. Followin ...
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Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to its climate, beaches, and hospitality industry. It has a diverse economy, hosting headquarters of companies such as Hulu, Universal Music Group, Lionsgate Films, and The Recording Academy. Santa Monica traces its history to Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica, granted in 1839 to the Sepúlveda family of California. The rancho was later sold to John Percival Jones, John P. Jones and Robert Symington Baker, Robert Baker, who in 1875, along with his Californio heiress wife Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founded Santa Monica, which incorporated as a city in 1886. The city developed into a seaside resort during the late 19th and early 20th cen ...
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Gallery 400
Gallery 400 is a not-for-profit arts exhibition space within the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It was founded in 1983 to exhibit and support art, design and architecture. Over its history Gallery 400 has presented many exhibitions, lectures, and artist commissions. The exhibitions and programs present a broad range of recent developments and aesthetic concerns and have included more than 1,000 artists to date. It's located in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood. Concept The Gallery's program of exhibitions, lectures, film and video screenings, and performances features interdisciplinary and experimental practices. Operating within the College of Architecture, Design and the Arts at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), Gallery 400 aims to make the arts and artists accessible to the general public. Exhibitions Gallery 400 annually presents six to nine exhibitions in an exhibition space of 2,900 square feet (one large, ...
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American Male Poets
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American Book Publishers (people)
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ...
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21st-century American Poets
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21st-century American Male Writers
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ( I) through AD 100 ( C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. The 1st century also saw the appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, ninth Roman emperor, a ...
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1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th Pres ...
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Poets House
Poets House is a national literary center and poetry library based in New York City. It contains more than 70,000 volumes of poetry, and is free and open to the public. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, they temporarily suspended operations in November 2020. History Poets House was founded in 1985 by the late Stanley Kunitz, two-time poet laureate of the United States, and arts administrator Elizabeth Kray. Poets House contains virtually all poetry books published in the U.S. since 1990, plus many that are long out of print dating to the early 20th Century. It also contains literary journals and chapbooks (small books of poetry), and many audiotapes, videotapes, CDs, and DVDs of poetry readings from the mid-twentieth century through today. Visitors to Poets House can hear the voices of Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath and hundreds of other poets. In 2005, it was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 ...
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University Of Illinois, Chicago
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois system, UIC is also the largest university in the Chicago metropolitan area, having more than 33,000 students enrolled in 16 colleges. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity." The roots of UIC can be traced to the establishment of the Chicago College of Pharmacy in 1859, which was joined in the 1800s by additional medical related schools. It began an undergraduate program toward the end of World War II, and developed its West side campus in the 1960s. In 1982, it consolidated the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and the University of Illinois at the Medical Center into the present university. Today, the university has become a global leader for a number of subjects, such as nursing, pharmac ...
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The Common Review
''The Common Review'' was the literary magazine of the Great Books Foundation. History and profile ''The Common Review'' was started as a quarterly publication in Fall 2001. The founder was the former Great Books Foundation president Peter Temes. The magazine specializes in nonfiction essays and articles "about the books and ideas that matter", as well as reviews of new books, letters, and editorials. Daniel Born was the launching editor of the magazine. He served in the post until the Fall 2010 issue when Danny Postel was named new editor. Jason A. Smith was managing editor from 2001 until 2008, when he became editor of ''Wisconsin People & Ideas'', the quarterly magazine of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Some of the notable writers and poets featured in the magazine have included Gerald Graff, Nat Hentoff, Phillip Lopate, Joseph Epstein, Carl Rakosi, David Sloan Wilson, Julia Kasdorf, and Michael Bérubé Michael Bérubé (born 1961) is Edwin Erle Sparks ...
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Nightboat Books
Nightboat Books is an American nonprofit literary press founded in 2004 and located in Brooklyn, New York. The press publishes poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and intergenre books. History The press was founded in 2004 by Kazim Ali and Jennifer Chapis. In 2007, Stephen Motika became publisher. Nightboat Books publishes manuscripts accepted through general submission and annually awards a $1,000 prize and publication for a book of poems. Nightboat Books are distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. The press has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Fund for Poetry, and the Topanga Fund. Notable authors published by Nightboat Books include Dawn Lundy Martin, Nathanaël, Joanne Kyger, Cole Swensen, Melissa Buzzeo, Daniel Borzutzky, Bhanu Kapil, Jill Magi, Wayne Koestenbaum, Etel Adnan, and Fanny Howe. Brian Blanchfield's book ''A Several World,'' published by Nightbo ...
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Another Chicago Magazine
''Another Chicago Magazine'' is an American magazine established by Left Field Press, in 1977. Contributors include David Sedaris, Charles Bukowski, Samantha Irby, Ander Monson, Shelley Jackson, Charles Harper Webb, Maxine Chernoff, Kim Addonizio, Sterling Plumpp, Robin Hemley, David Trinidad, Kathleen Rooney, Kathy Acker and other writers. The magazine published a chapter from Mira Bartók's ''The Memory Palace'' before her best-selling memoir was published. In addition to fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, and art, the magazine has published interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Daisy Zamora, Grace Paley, Aleksandar Hemon, Donald Ray Pollock, Carlos Fuentes and other figures. Over the years, editors have included Simone Muench, Barry Silesky, and Sharon Solwitz. The magazine has also received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. In 2020, David L. Ulin's essay, "Bed," was republished in ''The Best American Essays'' edited by A ...
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