The Books That Shaped Them
Summer: a time to catch up on neglected projects, reconnect with old friends and tackle that summer reading list.
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Black Arts Movement Icon Sonia Sanchez Returns to Ky. Women Writers Conference
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Legendary 81-year-old poet Sonia Sanchez will return to the upcoming Kentucky Women Writers Conference on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the conference series named for her.
Poet Sonia Sanchez Returns to Ky. Women Writers Conference
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Legendary 81-year-old poet Sonia Sanchez will return to the upcoming Kentucky Women Writers Conference on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the conference series named for her.
WUKY's 'UK Perspectives' Explores 'Tales from Afrofuturism & Beyond'
This week on "UK Perspectives," Tom Godell discusses afrofuturism with African American and Africana Studies professor DaMaris Hill and student Nathan Moore.
Office Hours with Buck Ryan and DaMaris Hill
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Join us for the third episode of Office Hours, where we talk to Professor Buck Ryan about Constitution Day, the Citizen Kentucky Project, and Ballot Bomb, and Professor DaMaris Hill about her novel, Willows in the Spring. Office Hours is produced by the College of Arts & Sciences and airs on WRFL FM 88.1 every Wednesday from 2-3 p.m.
This podcast was produced by David Cole.
Hard Work, Persistence Take Student to the Top of His Field
Nathan Moore was recently named a fellow for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute in New York City.
Writing The Next Chapter: Nathan Moore
Undergraduate Nathan Moore selected as a fellow for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute in New York City.
DaMaris Hill and Nathan Moore discuss Afrofuturism on WUKY
Wikipedia defines the subject as “an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past.” Professor DaMaris Hill and her student Nathan Moore elaborate on this definition and tell us about the course. More information about the class is availab
New Faculty 2013: Meet DaMaris Hill
The Department of English and the African American and Africana Studies Program are excited to welcome DaMaris Hill to their faculty!
Hill's focus at the University of Kentucky will be on creative writing. While she tends to specialize in fiction, Hill has a background that spans the writing spectrum from poetry to play writing.
A Conversation With DaMaris B. Hill from WUKY
On Tuesday, October 22nd, Tom Godell of WUKY interviewed DaMaris B Hill, a new addition to the African American and Africana Studies program.
"UK Perspectives" airs at 8:35 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. each Friday on WUKY 91.3, UK's NPR station.
