2000 Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988–2000 Lucille Clifton 2001 Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry Alan Dugan 2002 In the Next Galaxy Ruth Stone 2003 The Singing C.K. Williams 2004 Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003 Jean Valentine 2005 Migra...
Won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton“born in babylon / both nonwhite and woman …”Lucille Clifton’s first book of poems, Good Times (Random House, 1969), was recognized by the New York Times as one of the best books of the year. Five years later, she left her government...
Early Kansas settlers had a rough time of it. For the first twenty years of Kansas settlement, homesteaders had to battle hot winds, drought, raids from native Americans, and hailstorms to save their crops. But the year 1874 promised to be different. “In the spring of 1874,” wrote Mrs...
She was only 23 when she appeared in “Laura” (1944), directed by Otto Preminger, a stunning film noir masterpiece, so richly layered with plot twists and great casting (Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Clifton Webb) that you can enjoy it again and again. It is her ...
Desilu Studios is founded by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. The studio was later the home of the original Star Trek productions. Originally, the studio was named Motion Picture Center, founded by Joe Justman (father of later Star Trek alumnus Robert Justman, and with whom Arnaz in particular...
But there was a notable earlier cake bestower: cafeteria king Clifford Clinton of Clifton’s fame. By 1945 he claimed to have given away over 110,000 birthday cakes to patrons. Of course since his restaurant was a cafeteria, it’s likely that there were no singing waiters involved. Apart ...
[Lucille Ball does not appear in the Sardi’s scene shown above.] Like the Brown Derby in Los Angeles and the London Chop House in Detroit, Sardi’s decorated its walls with portraits of its celebrity guests – and still does. Some of the older drawings, from the 1920s through the ...
Arzner went on to direct films starring Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford and Lucille Ball; for a period during the early studio days, she was the sole female director in Hollywood. Arzner retired from directing in 1943 and taught at UCLA. Leni Riefenstahl Photo : Cou...
Won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up ...
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