Literary Arts Section :: Page 9

• Four questions for poet Kaveh Akbar

  By Audrey HackettMarch 27, 2018

  

  Poet Kaveh Akbar is coming to Wright State University April 3, as part of its Visiting Writers Series. Here, the News asks Akbar four questions about his life in poetry.

• Hamilton honored as ‘Great Ohioan’

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 20, 2018

  

  Local children’s author Virginia Hamilton was given Great Ohioan Award by the Ohio Statehouse this week.

• Bill Felker’s new book offers riches of home

  By Audrey HackettDecember 21, 2017

  

  Camel crickets in the tub. Robinsong and its absence. A koi pond in winter. Hepatica, violet cress, bloodroot, Virginia bluebells. The “iconography” of light on a wall. Memories of adolescent devotion in a Catholic seminary. All of these subjects illuminate local almanac writer Bill Felker’s new book.

• Writers with deep Yellow Springs roots speak

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 6, 2017

  

  YSHS graduates Shuly Cawood and Denise Jacobs both have newly published books that are similar only in that they each, in individually distinct ways, involve self-discovery.

• Antioch Review, the little magazine, still big at 75

  By Audrey HackettApril 13, 2017

  

  With 75 years of continuous publication and a knack for picking and publishing a host of vital American voices, the The Antioch Review is a “little magazine” with an undeniably “big” impact and influence.

• A hometown writer tells own story

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMarch 9, 2017

  

  Chris Tebbetts, a Yellow Springs native and author of a few successful book series for young readers, will be speaking at the Little Art Theatre as part of their “Homecoming” series, in which people with interesting careers speak about their history and their craft.

• ‘Ripples’ celebrates village’s elders

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  A diversity of both form and content is the goal of “Ripples,” an annual journal that is “a celebration of elders” in the Village.

• Fine poems for a ‘towering’ figure

  By Audrey HackettMarch 2, 2017

  

  About a dozen Tower Poets will gather at the Emporium on Saturday, Feb. 25, from 3 to 5 p.m., to read from their new anthology, “From the Tower: Poems in Honor of Conrad Balliet.”

• Antioch Writers’ Workshop moves to UD

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 13, 2017

  

  The Antioch Writers’ Worship announced via press release that it would move its base of operations to the University of Dayton campus in March.

• ‘Nagasaki’ author to speak at AUM

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 24, 2016

  

  Susan Southard, who will be awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize this week for her nonfiction book on the survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb, will speak in Yellow Springs this Saturday.