The great American poet who inspired the Harlem Renaissance spent most of his childhood (1902-1915) in Lawrence, Kansas. This biography includes 60 black and white photos of Lawrence locations connected to Hughes, along with maps and a family tree of known African, American Indian, and white ancestry.
The great American poet who inspired the Harlem Renaissance spent most of his childhood (1902-1915) in Lawrence, Kansas. This biography includes 60 bl...
Prior to his death in 2008, Two-Rivers was an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) activist and writer who used words, not violence, to promote civil rights for all oppressed people. This is his only collection of poetry in print, and contains an Afterword of biographical and critical overviews of this seminal civil rights-era activist.
Prior to his death in 2008, Two-Rivers was an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) activist and writer who used words, not violence, to promote civil rights for all o...
Denise Low, second poet laureate of Kansas, revives the British tradition of one-page publications, called "broadsides," as a way to present poetry. Her Web-based broadsides include over 40 poets with Kansas connections.
Denise Low, second poet laureate of Kansas, revives the British tradition of one-page publications, called "broadsides," as a way to present poetry. H...
A collection of Kansas poems by William Stafford with additional commentary on the man and his work by current notable writers including Jonathan Holden, Denise Low, Thomas Fox Averill, Kirsten Bosnak, Robert Day, Steven Hind, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Al Ortolani, Linda Rodriguez, Ralph Salisbury, William Sheldon, Kim Stafford, Robert Stewart, Ingrid Wendt and Fred Whitehead, who have been inspired by William Stafford and by Kansas alike.
A collection of Kansas poems by William Stafford with additional commentary on the man and his work by current notable writers including Jonathan Hold...
-Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end, - Denise Low says, -as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible.-
Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry as she recovers the life story of her Kansas grandfather, Frank Bruner (1889-1963). She remembers her childhood in Kansas, where her grandparents remained at a distance, personally and physically, from their grandchildren, despite living only a few miles away. As an adult, she comes to understand her...
-Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end, - Denise Low says, -as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see...
