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I love IL Humanities and am honored and thrilled to be an IL Humanities Road Scholar this year. I can't wait to visit and talk, think, write, and connect with some of you!
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Award-winning author Rachel DeWoskin believes that the most meaningful aspect of writing is that it connects human beings across whatever distances...
Delighted to have this essay in Lit Hub today - about the joy of watching youngsters (including my kiddo) translating Catullus' wildest poems in this era of rabid banning. . .
What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?
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In this moment of especially rabid book banning, my high school senior has been translating Catullus in her Advanced Track (AT) Latin class. Catullus’s poems disappeared from the Western canon for ....
Tonight! Please come talk, resist, and refuse book banning and other fascist antics with us. Zayd Dohrn, Gabrielle Lyon, and Frances de Pontes Peebles and I will read this short play and then we can all talk about this moment and what we're doing. Love from Writers For Democratic Action
WDA presents Ban the Bans: A Play Reading
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We're excited to welcome our friends at Writers for Democratic Action for a reading of "Ban the Bans," a new one act play!
Hey pals! Please come to a joyful reading of Ban the Bans, a new piece co-written by me and the one and only James Carroll for Writers For Democratic Action's Democracy Theater Project -- we'll be reading and then talking with everyone at Women & Children First on October 6th at 6 pm, in celebration of Banned Books Week. Come fight for books and authors and our rights to read, write, and speak freely. We would LOVE to see you there.
WDA presents Ban the Bans: A Play Reading
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We're excited to welcome our friends at Writers for Democratic Action for a reading of "Ban the Bans," a new one act play!
what fun to do this interview with chicago literary hall of fame. thank you for having me.
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By Jasminum McMullen <em>Writuals explores how our city's rich literary heritage, cultural diversity, and iconic spaces inspire routines that fuel the work of local authors. </em> Rachel DeWos...