Category Archives: Writing

Students with Style

So many different “styles,” depending on what you’re writing and for whom.  Yet in ENG 265 – Style, I’ve tried to define a “standard” style, a style of writing you’d read in some of our greatest publications—The New Yorker, The … Continue reading

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Frank London Brown: Can White Folks Get It?

So well-received was Frank London Brown’s first novel Trumbull Park (1959), that critic Sterling Stuckey wrote: “…along with Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun and Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious, [it] signaled the advent of a new and brilliant flowering of … Continue reading

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Regie Gibson: “the blooz man is i”

Perhaps the most electric slam poet in America, Regie Gibson (b. 1966) has, among many honors, won the 1997 money slam and the 1998 individual slam title.  He and his work have been featured in the Theodore Witcher film love … Continue reading

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