Tag: Women’s History Month

 Sonia Sanchez awarded the 2022 MacDowell Medal

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Congratulations to Sonia Sanchez, who has been awarded the 2022 MacDowell Medal. Sanchez, considered one of the most important writers from the Black Arts Movement, is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, children’s stories, and plays. Read more about Sanchez, plus poems, here.

Dorothy Parker works now available in the public domain

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Read all the poems published in Enough Rope (Boni & Liveright, 1926) by Dorothy Parker, now available in the public domain, as well as “The Algonquin Hotel: Summer 1927,” the introduction to the comprehensive biography Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (Penguin Books, 1989), by Marion Meade. “Epitaph for Read More …