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Reyna Grande s Across A Hundred Mountains Reyna Grande s Across A Hundred Mountains 228 Words1 Page Reyna Grandeâs novel Across a Hundred Mountains is a fictional narrative that talks about the life of two girls, Adelina and Juana. Grande, who was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States illegally, graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in creative writing. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California and continues to pursue a career in writing. Her success in the writing field has been notably successful as seen by her awards and honors; nevertheless, Grandeâs work has prompted others to dive deeper into her text. Marta Caminero- ....
Highlander Courtesy of Gage Skidmore via Flickr The Writers Week Festival event is an annual literary event that features readings from many different published authors. Entering its 44th year, the festival is the longest-running free literary event in California, and every event is open to the public. This year, the event was held via Crowdcast from Feb. 16 to 19. Using an online platform resulted in the event being a little different from usual. Through most of the sessions, writers submitted prerecorded readings of excerpts from their novels or a few original poems. For example, during the 1 p.m. session on Feb. 17, Shin Yu Pi read from her latest poetry book, âEnso.â Furthermore, during the 6:30 p.m. session on Feb. 18, John Jennings shared his screen and showed a brief preview of his graphic novel, âAfter the Rain.â The recorded excerpts differed in content just as did they in execution; for example, although Session 2, which took place on ....
Rita Dove In 1993, Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person – and the first African-American – to receive this highest official honor in American Poetry. She served 1993-1995. In 1999 she was reappointed Special Consultant in Poetry for 1999/2000, The Library of Congress Bicentennial year. From 2004-2006, she served as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner for “Thomas and Beulah” (1987), author of numerous poetry books, a novel, short stories, a play, and is editor of “The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.” Her honors include the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama the only poet ever to receive both medals as well as the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of Americ ....
Fourteen years ago, Willard Library started its “Battle Creek Reads” program, which encourages community members to read the same book, talk about it, and then meet the author. This year, library patrons will have to settle for an on-line meeting, but the books and authors for 2021 have been selected. This year s selections will illustrate the theme “The Ties That Bind Us”. The books are “The Distance Between Us” by Reyna Grande and “A Woman is No Man” by Etaf Rum. Public Relations Librarian Kristine Pioch says they usually choose one book, but this year the committee chose two. Our committee of about six library staff, headed up by library director Cathy Lucas, started with eight books this year. We read all of them, and then narrowed it down to two. ....