Search Results for: American
Grove at Home: March 7-13
…of Jack Kerouac, the “father of the Beat Generation,” a novelist and poet whose outsize impact continues to be felt in all corners of American writing. 99 may be the…
Grove at Home: November 29-December 5
…David Rabe and Kenneth Lonergan on the state of American theater For insights into American theater, you couldn’t do much better than to listen to David Rabe and Kenneth Lonergan….
Grove at Home: November 1-7
…is no newcomer to the workings of American democracy — a longtime Washington columnist for the Financial Times, he has also worked as a speechwriter to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence…
Grove at Home: October 18—24
…American should know. “Throughout it all, there was a consistent message: If you don’t vote for us, you won’t be safe. They argued that chaos would reign if African Americans…
Grove at Home: September 27—October 3
…historical journey that takes us from Trinidad in 1796 to the American West in 1830, considering complex issues of lineage, belonging, race, and freedom. In this interview at American Libraries,…
Grove at Home: July 5—11
…short TED-Ed video, Mexican-American author and translator Ilan Stavans provides some biographical background on Neruda, and shares some representative samples of his work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogJXiaBM8Q June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and…
Grove at Home: May 31—June 6
…real-life, Black Crow chief whose improbable life testifies to the racial complexities and hybridity of life in the nineteenth-century American West (“when I found him, I knew that this story…
Celebrating National Poetry Month
…and logically Mary Oliver’s Pulitzer Prize–winning American Primitive. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness—so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive—continue in Dream Work. She has turned her attention in…
El Norte
by Carrie GibsonA sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire’s Crossroads…
The School on Heart’s Content Road
by Carolyn Chute“Chute is such an extraordinary, vivid, empathetic writer. . . . Like a ferocious bulletin from an alternate universe—tumbling, pell-mell, brilliant and strange—comes this explosive and discomfiting . . ….
