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The Arkansas Center for the Book will present a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown at no cost. (Photo Credit: Arkansas State Library) The Arkansas Center for the Book at the Arkansas State Library will present a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown about his book, “The Tradition.” Jo McDougall, Poet Laureate of Arkansas, will also take part in the conversation. The conversation with Brown and McDougall will be presented live via Zoom on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m. To participate, people can fill out the registration form on the Arkansas Stat...

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (2011) and Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield (2015)—in 2016, when a source tipped her off that an all-female militia was advancing the cause of women’s rights in Syria as they battled the Islamic State. Serving with the YPJ, the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units, the women were effective fighters and tacticians, widely respected by the men who served with them; yet, their story was largely unknown beyond the frontlines of the Syrian war. Lemmon is as fearless as her subjects, and her account of rese...

Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications Feb. 1, 2021 12:02 p.m. Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber knows how to fry an egg. President Christopher L. Eisgruber leads the online workshop "How to Fry an Egg: Simple Cooking for Fun, Friends and Yourself" during the University's inaugural Wintersession, a vibrant, virtual two-week experience featuring more than 300 workshops and events led by faculty, staff, students and alumni. Photo by Pranav A. Avva, Class of 2024 On Jan. 26, working from his home kitchen, Eisgruber taught 13 undergraduates his culinary secrets during “How...

Athens Banner-Herald Somewhere in Athens is a poet whose written word and personality will be engaging enough to win over eight people tasked with choosing Athens' first poet laureate. The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission's goal is to select a poet laureate sometime in April, which fittingly, is National Poetry Month. While there is a poet laureate of Georgia — namely Chelsea Rathburn — few cities select a person to hold such a title. The energy behind the idea sprang from Melissa Cahnmann-Taylor, a language and literacy education professor at the University of Georgia and a member o...

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