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Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award
Conrad Kent Rivers (October 15, 1933 – 1968) was an American poet, fiction writer and dramatist. Biography Conrad Kent Rivers was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Cora McIver and William Dixon Rivers.''Dictionary of Literary Biography'', via ''BookRags'', He began writing poetry in high school and in 1951 his poem "Poor Peon" won the Savannah, Georgia, State Poetry Prize. He attended Wilberforce University, Chicago Teachers College and Indiana University. He taught high school in Chicago, Illinois, and in Gary, Indiana, while publishing poems in periodicals including the ''Antioch Review'', ''Negro Digest'', and ''Kenyon Review''. His first book of poetry, ''Perchance to Dream, Othello'', was published in 1959. His second collection, ''These Black Bodies and This Sunburnt Face'', was published in 1962, followed by ''Dusk at Selma'' (1965), and ''The Still Voice of Harlem'', which was published a few weeks after Rivers' sudden death in 1968, at the age of 35. Rivers was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city (New Jersey), city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Atlantic City comprises the second half of the Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey, Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses those cities and all of Atlantic County for statistical purposes. Both Atlantic City and Hammonton, as well as the surrounding Atlantic County, are culturally tied to Philadelphia and constitute part of the larger Philadelphia metropolitan area or Delaware Valley, the nation's Metropolitan statistical area, seventh-largest metropolitan area as of 2020. Located in South Jersey on Absecon Island and known for its taxis, casinos, nightlife, Boardwalk (entertainment district), boardwalk, and Atlantic Ocean beaches and coastline, the city is prominently known as the "Las Vegas of the East Coast" and inspired the U.S. version of the board game ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
