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Carmen Giménez
Carmen Giménez (born February 20, 1971), formerly known as Carmen Giménez Smith, is an American poet, writer, and editor. Life Giménez earned a Bachelor of Arts from San Jose State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She was recently a professor in English at Virginia Tech and, prior to that, New Mexico State University. She teaches in Bennington College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Giménez founded the "historically brown and queer" Noemi Press in 2002, and she is a founding fellow and co-director of CantoMundo. In the fall of 2017, Giménez became editor of ''The Nation'' Poetry Section, alongside Stephanie Burt. In summer of 2022, Giménez became the Executive Director and Publisher of Graywolf Press. In 2009, Giménez was named to Poetry Society of America's biennial New American Poets Series. In 2011, she was named a Howard Foundation Fellow in Creative Nonfiction; her me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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PEN/Open Book
The PEN Open Book Award (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is an award intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry. Created in 1991 by the PEN American Center (today PEN America), the award ensures custodians of language and literature are representative of the American people. The Committee discusses mutual concerns and strategies for advancing writing and professional activities, and coordinates Open Book events. While multiple awards were presented in previous years, the PEN Open Book Award now presents one award every year to books published in the United States (but without citizenship or residency requirements) by "authors of color who have not received wide media coverage". The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1971 Births
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclipse, February 10, and August 1971 lunar eclipse, August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 1971 Ibrox disaster: During a crush, 66 people are killed and over 200 injured in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belladonna Books
Belladonna* Collaborative (or Belladonna Series, Inc.) is a small press non-profit publisher and collaborative organization based in Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1999 by Rachel Levitsky as a reading series at Bluestockings in New York, NY. The reading series quickly expanded to a matrix of readings, publications, and informal salons, featuring avant-garde feminist writing, with an emphasis on hybrid and language-focused writing. Currently, the press operates as a non-hierarchical collaborative, publishing books and hosting literary events with attention to diversity in its roster of authors and editorial board. History Belladonna* was started as a reading and salon series at Bluestockings, a bookstore on New York City's Lower East Side, in August 1999. The first publications were postcards by kari edwards for the May 4, 2000 reading at Bluestockings. Following the edwards postcards, and in collaboration with Boog Literature, Belladonna* began to publish commem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Group
Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media company, media Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Bertelsmann. The new company was created by a Mergers and acquisitions, merger that was finalised on 1 July 2013, with Bertelsmann initially owning 53% of the joint venture, and Pearson PLC initially owning the remaining 47%. Since 18 December 2019, Penguin Random House has been wholly owned by Bertelsmann. Penguin Books has its registered office in the City of Westminster, London.Maps ." City of Westminster. Retrieved 28 August 2009. Its British division is Penguin Books Ltd. Other separate divisions are located in the United States, Ireland, New Zealand, India, Australia, Canada, China, Brazil and South Africa. History Penguin Books Ltd. (est. 1935) of the United K ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Bernheimer
Kate Bernheimer is an American fairy-tale writer, scholar and editor. Works Kate Bernheimer's first three novels, a trilogy based on Russian, German, and Yiddish fairy tales, ''The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold'' (2001), ''The Complete Tales of Merry Gold'' (2006), and ''The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold'' (2011), were published by Fiction Collective 2. Amongst her other work, her short-story collection ''Horse, Flower, Bird'' was published in the fall of 2010 by Coffee House Press. She edited the World Fantasy Award-winning collection of short stories, '' My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales,'' which was published in the fall of 2010 by Penguin Books, and its sequel, '' xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths,'' in 2013. She is also the author of ''The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum'', chosen as a best picture book of the year by ''Publishers Weekly'' in 2008. Her children's book ''The Lonely Book,'' illustrated by Chris Sheban and an Amazon "Best Books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
''My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales'' is an anthology of fantasy stories based on the idea of fairy tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez Smith. The book was published by Penguin Books on September 28, 2010. The anthology itself won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. Contents * Introduction (My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales), by Kate Bernheimer * Drawing the Curtain, by Gregory Maguire * "Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child", by Joy Williams * "Ardour", by Jonathon Keats * "I'm Here", by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya * "The Brother and the Bird", by Alissa Nutting * "Hansel and Gretel", by Francine Prose * "A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin", by Kevin Brockmeier * "With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold", by Neil LaBute * "The Swan Brothers", by Shelley Jackson * "The Warm Mouth", by Joyelle McSweeney * "Snow White, Rose Red", by Lydia Millet * "The Erlking", by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum * "Dapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Arizona Press
The University of Arizona Press, a publishing house founded in 1959 as a department of the University of Arizona, is a nonprofit publisher of scholarly and regional books. As a delegate of the University of Arizona to the larger world, the Press publishes the work of scholars wherever they may be, concentrating upon scholarship that reflects the special strengths of the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University. The Press publishes about fifty books annually and has some 1,400 books in print. These include scholarly titles in American Indian studies, anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geography, Chicano studies, history, Latin American studies, and the space sciences. The UA Press has award-winning books in more than 30 subject areas. The UA Press also publishes general interest books on Arizona and the Southwest borderlands. In addition, the Press publishes books of personal essays, such as Nancy Mairs's ''Plaintext'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated distinguished accomplishment in the past and potential for future achievement. The recipients exhibit outstanding aptitude for prolific scholarship or exceptional talent in the arts. The foundation holds two separate competitions each year: * One open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. * The other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin America and Caribbean competition is currently suspended "while we examine the workings and efficacy of the program. The U.S. and Canadian competition is unaffected by this suspension." The performing arts are excluded from these fellowships, but composers, film directors, and choreographers are still eligible to apply. While student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville House Publishing
Melville House Publishing is an American independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The company was founded in 2001 and is run by the husband-and-wife team of Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company is named after the author Herman Melville. It has a reputation as an "activist press" and publisher of left-leaning books. History The company was founded by husband-and-wife team of Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians. Johnson wrote a blog called "MobyLives" and after the 9/11 attacks collected poetry related to the event and published it as a book to great success, which launched the company. They intended Melville to be a low volume boutique that specializes in poetry and "highly literary" novels issuing less than six a year. The company has a reputation as a "activist press" and became known for works of "political reportage with a leftist streak". Johnson once said they formed the company with the notion of "getting Bush ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
