Sarah Mirk s Guantanamo Voices wins 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize
“Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World s Most Infamous Prison” edited by Sarah Mirk and published by Abrams ComicArts has won the 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize. Jurors called this book “a solid example of graphic journalism that gives a voice to the lives touched by the Guantanamo Bay prison, from prisoners and lawyers to social workers and military officers.
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Sarah Mirk s Guantanamo Voices wins 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize
April 26, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. “Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World s Most Infamous Prison” edited by Sarah Mirk and published by Abrams ComicArts has won the 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize. Penn State University Libraries sponsors the juried award and its administrator, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.
‘Wordgathering’ brings fresh narrative surrounding artists with disabilities
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“January Sunrise” is one of the pieces featured in “Wordgathering,” which has been operating for 15 years and publishes work in a variety of art forms, such as paintings, essays and poetry.
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Kenny Fries is often frustrated with the narrative surrounding art created by people with disabilities.
“Historically, writing by writers with disabilities has been seen more as ‘therapy’ than art and culture, and this has been one of the many ways of silencing disabled voices,” said Fries, a professor in the creative writing graduate program at Goddard College.
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Cuba has Santeria.
Jamaica still practices Obeah.
All are African religions brought by the more than 4 million people stolen from their homes to be slaves in the Caribbean during the 15th and 16th centuries.
University of Miami senior Kay-Ann Henry, who was born in Jamaica, decided to explore the ways that those enslaved people used the Obeah practices to try to liberate themselves.
One of six scholars who presented their research as part of the Library Research Scholars Program one that allows undergraduates a deep dive into the University Libraries research collections and service programs Henry presented her project, “How to Get Free, How the African Diaspora Used the Afro Caribbean Traditions for Liberation,” on Monday in an online presentation.