District Of Columbia Poets

Author : Kim Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813941172

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A Literary Guide to Washington, DC by Kim Roberts Pdf

"The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation's most acclaimed writers. From the city's founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston have lived and worked at their craft in our nation's capital ... Part walking tour, part anthology, [this book] is organized into five sections, each corresponding to a particularly vibrant period in Washington's literary [history]"--Amazon.com.

Author : Garrett Peck
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781626199736

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Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C. by Garrett Peck Pdf

Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to the nation's capital at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union officer wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Whitman eventually served as a volunteer "hospital missionary," making more than six hundred hospital visits and serving over eighty thousand sick and wounded soldiers in the next three years. With the 1865 publication of Drum-Taps, Whitman became poet laureate of the Civil War, aligning his legacy with that of Abraham Lincoln. He remained in Washington until 1873 as a federal clerk, engaging in a dazzling literary circle and fostering his longest romantic relationship, with Peter Doyle. Author Garrett Peck details the definitive account of Walt Whitman's decade in the nation's capital.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B116890

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District of Columbia Poets by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021062406

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District of Columbia Youth Act by United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia Pdf

Author : Shilpi Malinowski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439673904

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Shaw, LeDroit Park & Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C. by Shilpi Malinowski Pdf

Let residents tell you what it's been like to live in D.C.'s most gentrified neighborhood. When Gretchen Wharton came to Shaw in 1946, the houses were full of families that looked like hers: lower-income, African American, two parents with kids. The sidewalks were full of children playing. When Leroy Thorpe moved in in the 1980s, the same streets were dense with drug markets. When John Lucier found a deal on a house in Shaw in 2002, he found himself moving into one of four occupied homes on his block. Every morning, he waited by himself on the empty platform of the newly opened metro station. When Preetha Iyengar became pregnant with her first child in 2016, she jumped into a seller's market to buy a rowhouse in the area. Journalist and Shaw resident Shilpi Malinowski explores the complexities of the many stories of belonging in the District's most dynamic neighborhood.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Public Health, Education, Welfare, and Safety
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Juvenile delinquency
ISBN : LOC:00171219516

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District of Columbia Youth Act by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Public Health, Education, Welfare, and Safety Pdf

Author : Georgetown University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112111804776

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A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown University ... by Georgetown University Pdf

Author : Robert S. Pohl,John R. Wennersten
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780578016887

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Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery in the District of Columbia by Robert S. Pohl,John R. Wennersten Pdf

Slaveryâfuriously debated, yet recognized in the Constitutionâwas a stain on the nationâs consciousness since the founding of the Republic. As the country grew, legal battles erupted over the fate of fugitive slaves and the rights of slave-owners to take their property into free states. Nowhere was the issue more sharply drawn than in the nationâs capital, where government leaders saw first hand the shame and disgrace of legal slavery and the inherent moral conflict with guarantees in the Declaration of Independence. Decades of agitation for change came to fruition on April 16, 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation that ended slavery in the District of Columbiaânine months before the Emancipation Proclamation, which liberated slaves only in the Confederacy, and a full three years before ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : UCR:31210011558655

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Statehood for the District of Columbia by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1974 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Washington (D.C.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119578792

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District of Columbia appropriations for fiscal year 1980 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1968 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Washington (D.C.)
ISBN : UCAL:B4681480

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District of Columbia. Department of the Interior. Justifications. Nondepartmental witness by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Washington (D.C.)
ISBN : LOC:00173312179

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District of Columbia Appropriations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009872750

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District of Columbia Appropriations for 1985 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1394 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015031749206

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District of Columbia Appropriations for 1985: Public education system by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations Pdf

Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393531619

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Made to Explode: Poems by Sandra Beasley Pdf

With lacerating honesty, technical mastery, and abiding compassion, Made to Explode offers volatile poems for our volatile times. In her fourth collection, acclaimed poet Sandra Beasley interrogates the landscapes of her life in decisive, fearless, and precise poems that fuse intimacy and intensity. She probes memories of growing up in Virginia, in Thomas Jefferson’s shadow, where liberal affluence obscured and perpetuated racist aggressions, but where the poet was simultaneously steeped in the cultural traditions of the American South. Her home in Washington, DC, inspires prose poems documenting and critiquing our capital’s institutions and monuments. In these poems, Ruth Bader Ginsberg shows up at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s show of Kiss Me Kate; Albert Einstein is memorialized on Constitution Avenue, yet was denied clearance for the Manhattan Project; as temperatures cool, a rain of spiders drops from the dome of the Jefferson Memorial. A stirring suite explores Beasley’s affiliation with the disability community and her frustration with the ways society codes disability as inferiority. Quintessentially American and painfully timely, these poems examine legacies of racism and whiteness, the shadow of monuments to a world we are unmaking, and the privileges the poet is working to untangle. Made to Explode boldly reckons with Beasley’s roots and seeks out resonance in society writ large.