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Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle describes the conflict that occurred between two Confederate officers, General Thomas C. Hindman and General Albert Pike, over the defense of Indian Territory. Thomas W. Kremm and Diane Neal discuss how this conflict impacted the military situation in the area
Oral history interview with Willie Ann Pradia and Birdie Diane Neal
No full textWillie Ann Pradia and her daughter Birdie Neal discuss their lives growing up in Stillwater as African Americans. Willie shares stories of what she did for fun as a child, her memories of Washington School, what kind of businesses were in the community, and how segregation and integration affected her. She also discusses how she was raised, with church and faith paying a significant role in her life.The Stillwater's Washington School oral history collection is comprised of interviews with community members and alumni of the Booker T. Washington School in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The purpose of this project is to document the history of the school and African American community in Stillwater as well as the ongoing preservation efforts for the school. This interview was originally conducted as part of the Spotlighting Oklahoma collection
Diane Zinna, 45th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textDiane Zinna is the author of THE ALL-NIGHT SUN (Random House, 2020) which was longlisted for The Center for Fiction\u27s First Novel Prize and the Cabell First Novelist Award. She received her MFA from the University of Florida and was the longtime membership director for AWP, The Association of Writers & Writing Programs. There, she created the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program, helping to match more than six hundred writers over twelve seasons. She is also the creator of Grief Writing Sundays, a popular writing class on telling difficult stories that has met every week since the start of the pandemic. Diane is the recipient of an ArtsFairfax Artist Grant, and beginning Fall 2022, she will be the Darden Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming at Electric Literature, LiteraryHub, Brevity, Monkeybicycle, and Eat, Darling, Eat. Diane lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with her husband, daughter, and doodle
Author Diane Glancy discusses her first movie project and reads from a journal she is keeping about her experiences as a novice movie maker
No full textNoted author Diane Glancy discusses her first movie project and reads from a journal she is keeping about her experiences as a novice movie maker. After showing a clip from the still unfinished movie (not included here), she takes questions from the audience. Introduced by MSU Anthropology Professor Susan Applegate Krouse. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Leslie Behm interviews science fiction writer Diane Carey
No full textAuthor Diane Carey talks about how she came to write science fiction books for the "Star Trek" series, about the business of freelance writing, being a dependable writer, and being fortunate to have found a genre which she enjoys and is in demand. Carey is interviewed by Leslie Behm for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Science Fiction Writers Series
Diane Wakoski, 4th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textOne of the two or three most important poets of her generation in America, wrote Hayden Carruth about the extremely prolific and talented Diane Wakoski. Author of more than a dozen full-length collections and as many chapbooks, Wakoski is considered one of the most poetically daring writers on the American scene. While she frequently writes about the difficulty of being a woman in an age of changing values, her range encompasses an array of contemporary subject matters and themes. Since 1962, when her first book of poetry appeared, Wakoski has continued to draw her ever-growing readership into the complex world created by her vision
Diane Ackerman, 15th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textDiane Ackerman, poet and nature writer, has cavorted with whales in Argentina, studied bats in the deserts of Texas, and scouted out rare albatrosses on Japan\u27s Torishima Island. Her non-fiction bestseller, A Natural History of the Senses, is a meticulously researched celebration of hearing, vision, smell, taste and touch. Her Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems was named a Notable Book of the Year in 1991 by the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of Reverse Thunder, a dramatic poem on the life of a sixteenth century Mexican nun, Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, from which the staged reading for the Literary Arts Festival has been adaped
Diane Ackerman
No full textDiane Ackerman visited The College at Brockport in April 2000. She is a poet, essayist, and naturalist.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
Ep. #008 - Diane Nelson
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.This week’s Cultures of Energy podcast is brought to you by the number zero. Our co-hosts cover the need for more fun in academic life and Hollywood takes on the Anthropocene. Then (9:11) Cymene speaks with the ever joyful Diane Nelson, Professor of Anthropology at Duke University and author of Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide (Duke University Press, 2015). They talk hot-tub feminism, the power of numbers in how we think and feel about the world, genocide in the Capitalocene, and the politics of land, forests and hydroelectric power in Guatemala today. Diane offers us lessons from living in a country that has experienced massive human and environmental losses but also reminds us that, like the number zero, every end is also a beginning
Science fiction writer Diane Carey talks about science fiction at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textIn a program at the Michigan State University Main Library, Author Diane Carey describes writing for the Star Trek book series, explains science fiction and how it differs from fantasy, and provides numerous examples of the differences between fiction and fantasy, invoking "The Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars", and H. G. Wells. Carey's husband Greg Broder joins the conversation and they respond to questions from the audience. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Science Fiction Writers Series. Program Introduction by Leslie Behm
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