Orange Coast College photography professor Richard Kraft has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for film/video. Kraft is the only full-time community college professor to be awarded the prestigious fellowship in 2021, which offers financial support to artists and scholars from a wide range of backgrounds and fields of study.
Orange Coast College Professor of Photography Richard Kraft. Courtesy photo.
Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually through the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to support “exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions,” according to the foundation’s website. Fellows are chosen through a rigorous peer-review process.
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Tar River Poetry. An Appalachian poet living in West Virginia, she has also lived in Ireland and England. Her website is vcmccabe.com.
INTRODUCTION
Poetry, like any form of art, is as subjective in creation as it is in reception. There is no one way to be a poet. Our reasons and methods for writing vary, shaped by our respective experiences and imaginations. As an autodidactic poet with a day job, my path to poetry and publication diverged greatly from academically trained and funded writers. What we do have in common is a dedication to the practice of poetry.
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Philip Levine: A Large, Ironic Whiteman Of The Industrial Heart Home
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Philip Levine âa large, ironic Whiteman of the industrial heartland,â according to Edward Hirsch(www.poetryfoundation.org 1). Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 10, 1928 during the era of the Great Depression. Politics and family influenced Levine to write plenty of poetry. One of his many famous poems is âStarlight,â written in the journal Inquirey and reprinted in Ashes: Poems New and Old in 1979, however criticized by Paul Gray and Richard Hugo allowing readers to see his loss and regret toward his poems.
Levineâs parents Harry Levine and Esther Gertrude Prisol were Russian-Jewish immigrants that met in Detroit raising three children, Philip was the second child though was the first twin to be born. Through his life Levineâs father passed away when he was only five years old leaving his mother raising her children. He was raised in the cityâs wo
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April 14, 2021
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Top row: Isabela Mares, Tisa Wenger; Bottom row: Robyn Creswell, Marisa Anne Bass
Four Yale faculty members are among a group of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists awarded 2021 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Marisa Anne Bass, Robyn Creswell, Isabela Mares, and Tisa Wenger were chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from almost 3,000 applicants on the basis of their prior achievements and exceptional promise. Bass is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Art; Creswell is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature; Mares is a professor in the Department of Political Science; and Wenger is associate professor at Yale Divinity School with courtesy appointments in the American Studies program and the Department of Religious Studies.