Lisa Zunshine on Why Fiction Does it Better
An essay by Lisa Zunshine, a University of Kentucky professor of English, appears in the Dec. 13 edition of The Chronicle Review.
There is word on the page and then there is word given breath. This past April, students and faculty from the University of Kentucky brought words to life thanks to a 12-hour open air poetry reading. The event, organized by English professor and published author Julia Johnson, was held outside of the Student Center welcoming anyone and everyone to come read their favorite poems aloud.
Dr. Vershawn Young discusses Miriam Thaggert's Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance with the author.
For more of Dr. Young's podcast interviews with scholars of African American cultural and literary studies visit the website for New Books in African American Studies: http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/