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Phoebe (George Mason University Journal)
''Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art'' is a literary journal based at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and first published in 1971. It publishes one print issue and one online issue each year in addition to running annual contests in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The journal has served as a space for up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of readers. According to the Phoebe constitution, "We insist on openness, which means we welcome both experimental and conventional prose and poetry, and we insist on being entertained, which means the work must capture and hold our attention, whether it be the potent language of a poem or the narrative mechanics of a short story." Notable contributors Matt Bell (author), Dorothea Lasky, Karen An-hwei Lee, Richard Bausch, Robert Bausch (the Bausch brothers were among the founding staff), Joshua Ferris, Russell Edson, Jenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob M
Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother Esau, Jacob's paternal grandparents are Abraham and Sarah and his maternal grandfather is Bethuel, whose wife is not mentioned. He is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Then, following a severe drought in his homeland Canaan, Jacob and his descendants migrated to neighbouring Egypt through the efforts of his son Joseph, who had become a confidant of the pharaoh. After dying in Egypt at the age of 147, he is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron. Per the Hebrew Bible, Jacob's progeny were beget by four women: his wives (and maternal cousins) Leah and Rachel; and his concubines Bilhah and Zilpah. His sons were, in orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caitlin Horrocks
Caitlin () is a feminine given name of Irish origin. Historically, the Irish name Caitlín was anglicized as Cathleen or Kathleen. In the 1970s, however, non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name according to English spelling rules as , which led to many variations in spelling such as Caitlin, Ceitlin, Catelynn, Caitlyn, Katlyn, Kaitlin, Kaitlyn, Kaitlyne, Katelyn and Katelynn. It is the Irish version of the Old French name ''Cateline'' , which comes from Catherine">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... name ''Cateline'' , which comes from Catherine, which in turn comes from the Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterine). Catherine is attributed to St. Catherine of Alexandria. Along with the many other variants of Catherine, it is generally believed to mean "pure" because of its long association with the Greek adjective καθαρός ''katharos'' (pure), though the name did n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shauna Cross
Shauna Cross is an American author, screenwriter, and former roller derby athlete. She skated for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls under the pseudonym "Maggie Mayhem" and subsequently wrote the 2007 novel '' Derby Girl'', a fictionalized version of her experiences in the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls league. In 2009, she wrote a film adaption of the novel, '' Whip It'', which was directed by Drew Barrymore and released in 2009. She was named one of ''Variety''s 10 Screenwriters to Watch in 2008. Early life Cross grew up in Austin, Texas with her two brothers and younger sister. Writing career After graduating from the University of Texas film school in Austin, Cross worked on a few local film productions before deciding to move to Los Angeles in 2001 to try to break into the screenwriting industry. She supported herself in Los Angeles by working odd jobs optioning screenplays "here and there". In 2007, Cross's novel '' Derby Girl'', about a teenage girl from a small town who takes up r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Carson
Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton. With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry, and the PEN/Nabokov Award, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her contribution to Canadian letters. Early life and education Anne Carson was born in Toronto on June 21, 1950. Her father was a banker and she grew up in a number of small Canadian towns. In high school, a Latin instructor introduced Carson to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Brown (author)
Carrie Brown (born May 29, 1959) is an American novelist. She is the author of seven novels and a collection of short stories. She is a writer-in-residence at Sweet Briar College in Amherst County, Virginia. Her most recent novel, ''The Stargazer's Sister'', was published by Pantheon Books in January 2016. Background and education A Greenwich, Connecticut native, Brown graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1975. Brown received her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1981 and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow, in 1998. She has taught at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and became an English professor at Sweet Briar College after serving as Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence. She lives with her husband, the novelist John Gregory Brown, in Sweet Briar, Virginia. Work *''Rose's Garden'' ( Algonquin 1998), Brown's first novel, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. ''The New York T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathi Hanauer
Cathi Hanauer (born in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey) is an American novelist, journalist, essayist, and non-fiction writer. Her novels include ''Gone'' (2012), ''Sweet Ruin'' (2006), and ''My Sister's Bones'' (1996). She conceived and edited the 2002 New York Times best-selling essay anthology ''The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage'' and the 2016 sequel "The Bitch is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier," which was an NPR "Best Book" of 2016. She is a co-founder, along with her husband, Daniel Jones, of ''The New York Times'' column "Modern Love". Hanauer's articles, essays and criticism have appeared in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post,'' Elle'', ''O-the Oprah Magazine'', ''Real Simple'', '' Glamour'', ''Self'', ''Whole Living'', and other magazines. She wrote the monthly books column for both ''Glamour'' and '' Mademoiselle'' and was the monthly relationships advice columnist for ''Seventeen'' for seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Smith (poet)
Rod Smith (born 1962) is an American poet, editing, editor and publisher. Life He was born in Gallipolis, Ohio. He grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1987. Smith has authored several collections of poetry, including ''In Memory of My Theories, Protective Immediacy,'' and ''Music or Honesty''. He has taught creative writing at George Mason University where he is finishing his MFA. Smith currently teaches Cultural Studies at Towson University, and was a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the Spring of 2010. Smith is co-editor of ''The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley,'' along with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker (University of California Press, 2014). Publishing and the DC poetry community In 1984, along with Wayne Kline, Rod Smith began the journal Aerial (magazine), Aerial Magazine, a poetry magazine devoted to avant-garde and experimental writing. Soon after, Smith began publishing books under the name EDGE Books. Smith published the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Shreve
Susan Shreve (also known as Susan Richards Shreve) is an American novelist, memoirist, and children's book author. She has published fifteen novels, most recently ''More News Tomorrow'' (2019), and a memoir ''Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood'' (2007). She has also published thirty books for children, most recently ''The Lovely Shoes'' (2011), and edited or co-edited five anthologies. Shreve co-founded the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing program at George Mason University in 1980, where she teaches fiction writing. She is the co-founder and the former chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She lives in Washington, D.C. Early life Susan Richards Shreve was born May 2, 1939, in Toledo, Ohio, but moved with her family to Washington, D.C., at the age of three. She attended and graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1957. Education Shreve received a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961, and an MA in English from the University of Virgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop (born Rosmarie Sebald; August 24, 1935) is an American poet, novelist, translator, essayist and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958 and has settled in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is a co-editor and publisher of Burning Deck Press. Early life in Germany Waldrop was born in Kitzingen am Main on August 24, 1935. Her father, Joseph Sebald, taught physical education at the town's high school. Towards the end of the Second World War, she joined a travelling theatre, but returned to school in early 1946. At school, she studied piano and flute and played in a youth orchestra. During Christmas in 1954, the orchestra gave a concert for American soldiers stationed at Kitzingen. After the performance, Keith Waldrop, a member of the audience, invited members of the orchestra to listen to his records. He and Rosmarie became friendly and worked together over the next few months, translating German poetry into Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong is an American poet, writer, and professor who has published three volumes of poetry. Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative. She was named on the Time 100, 2021 ''Time'' 100 list for her writings and advocacy for Asian Americans, Asian American women. Life Hong, a child of Korean parents, was raised in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Oberlin College and has an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop. She taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Rutgers University, and UC Berkeley, and was previously poetry editor for ''The New Republic''. Work Hong is, according to J.P. Eburne's summary of her poetic approach, "dedicated to expanding and experimenting with the capacities of a living art. Her writing, editing, and performances across media seek to open up the 'interactive possibilities' of poetry for the sake of providing 'alternative ways of living within the existing real', as she puts it. 'What are ways in which the poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Palmer (poet)
Michael Palmer (born May 11, 1943) is an United States poetry, American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University, where he earned a BA in French and an MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance since the 1970s and has collaborated with many composers and visual arts, visual artists. Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969. Palmer is the 2006 recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. This award recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. Beginnings Michael Palmer began actively pursuing a career in poetry during the 1960s. Two events in the early sixties seem decisive to his development as a poet. First, Palmer attended the Vancouver Poetry Conference in 1963. This July–August 1963 Poetry Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia spanned three weeks and involved about sixty people who had registered for a program of discussions, workshops, lectures, and readings designed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
