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Creekside Park renamed after Iowa City literary legend James Alan McPherson

At the Tuesday, March 16, 2021 City Council meeting, Council approved the renaming of Creekside Park to James Alan McPherson Park. The recently updated park is located at 1856 7th Avenue Court. The unanimous vote from council changes the park’s name to honor the legendary career and life of McPherson, a longtime Iowa City resident, professor at the University of Iowa’s prestigious Writers’ Workshop, and the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Best known for his essays and short stories, McPherson’s 1977 short story collection “Elbow Room” was the publication that earned him the Pulitzer. He would go on to teach at the Writers’ Workshop for over 30 years. McPherson passed in 2016.

Welcome to THE COMMONS -- News and Views for Windham County, Vermont

Welcome to THE COMMONS -- News and Views for Windham County, Vermont
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Opinion: In the South, the pen is mighty

Opinion: In the South, the pen is mighty CNN 3/16/2021 © Maude Scuyler Clay A Mississippi Delta cotton field. Last year, the late Randall Kenan spoke at the University of Mississippi about his work as a writer and the role of the writer in society. Kenan said, for a community to change they have to understand the devastation they are wreaking on certain people. Yes, Georgia flipped blue because of a massive voter enfranchisement effort. But I like to think that it was also the groundbreaking work of Georgia writers, from James Alan McPherson and Alice Walker to Tayari Jones, who all created a literary culture in their home state that helped its populace begin to see the devastation that was being imposed on many of its citizens. Southern writing today embraces a variety of identities and perspectives, and even includes writers who are Southern transplants as well as natives, revealing how those who choose to live in the South must also inhabit the very idea of the Sout

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marilynne Robinson

The Pugilist at Rest, but for three or four hours, as I lie on my bedroom floor absorbing the novel from cover to cover, I hardly move, while beneath my skin I seem to possess another self, thinner and freer, made of electricity and air, which sways as I turn the pages. I don’t feel like I’m dancing even when I’m dancing, so it takes a lot to make me feel like I’m dancing when I’m reading. At 22, I have developed the almost ritualistic habit of equating my favorite novels with my favorite albums. Housekeeping, I decide, is Iris DeMent’s

CGI Merchant Group Hospitality Fund to Invest in Atlanta HBCU Morris Brown College With $30 Million Hotel Development Project

CGI Merchant Group Hospitality Fund to Invest in Atlanta HBCU Morris Brown College With $30 Million Hotel Development Project
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