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WritersCorps
{{Unclear citation style, date=September 2020 WritersCorps is an American artists-in-service organization that hires professional writers to teach creative writing to youth. It grew from a national service model in the WPA tradition and is now an alliance of separately-run organizations in three cities. History WritersCorps was born out of discussions between the National Endowment for the Arts and AmeriCorps with the goal of furthering a group of artists to teach creative writing at public schools and social service organizations in order to help underserved youth improve their literacy and communication skills and to offer creative expression as an alternative to violence, alcohol and drug abuse. They selected San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Bronx, N.Y. as the three initial sites. In 1997, WritersCorps transitioned from being a federally funded program to an independent alliance that is supported by a collaboration of public and private partners. DC WritersCorps is a nonpro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
San Francisco Arts Commission
The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) is the City agency that champions the arts as essential to daily life by investing in a vibrant arts community, enlivening the urban environment and shaping innovative cultural policy in San Francisco, California. The commission oversees Civic Design Review, Community Investments, Public Art, SFAC Galleries, The Civic Art Collection, and the Art Vendor Program. History The commission was established in 1932 as "The San Francisco Art Commission". It was primarily founded to keep the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony employed during Great Depression in the United States by funding low-cost concerts. This has led to a popular run of low-cost San Francisco Pops concerts by Arthur Fiedler. They created the Visual Arts commission in 1948. The Commission ran the San Francisco Arts Festival from 1946 to 1986. The festival was usually held in the Civic Center. The Commission created the Neighborhood Arts Program in 1967. They were early fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chad Sweeney
Chad Sweeney (born 1970) is an American poet, translator and editor. Life Born in Oklahoma in 1970, Sweeney holds a BA from the University of Oklahoma, an MFA from San Francisco State University and a PhD from Western Michigan University. Sweeney is the author of five books of poetry, ''Little Million Doors: An Elegy'' (Nightboat Books, 2019) (Winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize), ''Wolf's Milk: The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney'' (Forklift Books), ''Parable of Hide and Seek'' (Alice James Books 2010), ''Arranging the Blaze'' (Anhinga, 2009), and ''An Architecture'' (BlazeVox, 2007); and five chapbooks, including ''A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer'' (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006). With David Holler, he edits ''Parthenon West Review,'' a journal of contemporary poetry, translation and essays and ''Ghost Town Literary Magazine,'' a fiction and poetry journal. Sweeney's poems have appeared in ''Best American Poetry 2008'', the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2012 and ''Verse Daily'', and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jeffrey McDaniel
Jeffrey McDaniel (born 1967) is an American poet. He has published six books of poetry, most recently ''Holiday in the Islands of Grief'' (University of Pittsburgh Press). He is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has been included in ''Ploughshares'', ''The Best American Poetry 1994'', '' The Best American Poetry 2010'', '' The Best American Poetry 2019'', and ''The New Young American Poets'', as well as on the National Endowment for the Arts website. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. McDaniel received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1990, where he studied with Thomas Lux, Brooks Haxton, Kate Knapp-Johnson, Cornelius Eady, and Safiya Henderson-Holmes. In his senior year of college, McDaniel was in a weekly reading group with authors Joel Brouwer, Tessa Rumsey, and Marisa de los Santos, among others. A chapbook, ''The Boy Inside The Turtle'', was published in 1989 by fellow student Gerry LaFemina. McDa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stephen Beachy
Stephen Beachy (born 1965) is an American writer. Early life Beachy's parents are Mennonites and his paternal grandparents were Old Order Amish. Beachy is a second cousin of biologist Philip Beachy and historian Robert M. Beachy and also a relative of biologist Roger N. Beachy. He attended the University of Iowa from 1983 to 1990, both as an undergrad and in the Iowa Writers' Workshop. As a student he traveled extensively in the US and Latin America, sometimes by motorcycle and sometimes hitchhiking, which influenced his first novel. Writings His first novel, ''The Whistling Song,'' with cover illustrations by Curt Kirkwood, was published in 1991, and his second novel, ''Distortion,'' in 2000. Two novellas, ''Some Phantom'' and ''No Time Flat,'' were published in 2006 and have been described as a cross between ''The Turn of the Screw'' and Herk Harvey's ''Carnival of Souls''. Robert Gluck said, "Stephen Beachy is a visionary. In these twin novellas, he explores madness and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Creative Writing
Creative writing is any writing that goes beyond the boundaries of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on craft and technique, such as narrative structure, character development, literary tropes, genre, and poetics. Both fictional and non-fictional works fall into this category, including such forms as novels, biographies, short stories, poems, and even some forms of journalism. In academic settings, creative writing is typically separated into fiction and poetry classes, with a focus on writing in an original style, as opposed to imitating pre-existing genres such as crime or horror. Writing for the screen and stage—screenwriting and playwriting—are often taught separately, but fit under the creative writing category as well. Definition Creative writing can technically be considered any writing of original composition. In this sense, creative writing is a more contemporary and pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
San Francisco Public Library
The San Francisco Public Library is the public library system of the city and county of San Francisco in United States. The Main Library is located at Civic Center, at 100 Larkin Street. The library system has won several awards, such as ''Library Journal'''s Library of the Year award in 2018. The library is well-funded due to the city's dedicated Library Preservation Fund that was established by a 1994 ballot measure. The Preservation Fund was renewed twice, by ballot measures in 2007 and 2022. History In August 1877 a residents' meeting was called by state senator George H. Rogers and Andrew Smith Hallidie who advocated the creation of a free public library for San Francisco. A board of trustees for the Library was created in 1878 through the Free Library Act, signed by Governor of California William Irwin on March 18, which also created a property tax to fund the Library project. The economist Henry George served as the board's first secretary. The San Francisco Public Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Giovanni Singleton
Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of Don Juan * Giovanni (Pokémon), boss of Team Rocket in the fictional world of Pokémon * Giovanni (World of Darkness), a group of vampires in ''Vampire: The Masquerade/World of Darkness'' roleplay and video game * "Giovanni", a song by Band-Maid from the 2021 album ''Unseen World'' * ''Giovanni's Island'', a 2014 Japanese anime drama film * ''Giovanni's Room'', a 1956 novel by James Baldwin * Via Giovanni, places in Rome See also * * *Geovani *Giovanni Battista *San Giovanni (other) *San Giovanni Battista (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |