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Wake Forest University student essays on THE WIRE.

Poems. To be black and happy in America is a fundamental paradox and a constant struggle. I am charged with loving this country unconditionally, even when I feel it doesn't love me. Originally, these poems were titled Quite Happy: Poems on Black Life. Although accurate, that title did not capture what I hope is the universality of the sentiments contained in the chapbook. For example, I think many women, regardless of color/race/identity, struggle with a perceived perpetual availability. Likewise, I think many Southerners understand that sweet tea is not a vice, but a summertime staple. So, while these poems reflect my thoughts on my black life - which is distinctly, although not "tragically" black - I hope they connect with all readers. Marshall McLuhan is quoted as saying "publication is a self-invasion of privacy." He also said that "the future of the book is the blurb." Quite Happy is both. The poems contained here are abbreviated versions of secret and difficult conversations. Truth is often painful. Yet, I choose to keep grasping for it...to make sense of the utter senseless. And, frankly, when I am justifiably angry - at the historical maltreatment and the current disregard of blackness - I harbor those thoughts long enough to taste and spit them out. Regardless of the situation, my natural tendency is toward happiness...to find, as Black Star rapped, "beauty in the hideous."

Lifelines was originally a series of meditations broadcast on local radio stations over a thirteen-year period in my thirty-year career as a parish minister. My hope was that the series would speak to human experience generally and appeal to people broadly on a wide range of topics, using diverse sources of inspiration. My aim was to prompt reflection and to encourage the human effort to find meaning and live well. I selected the title of the series with two meanings in mind. The first meaning is expressed by Webster's definition of the word lifeline. A lifeline is "a line or rope for saving life." It is "something to grasp when there is danger of falling or being washed away." I hope in some meaningful way Lifelines has this life-saving benefit.

FROM THE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: This book began as a set of Q&A conversations with a select group of living poets who have won Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan. In reading interviews with poets, I've felt that foundational questions are too often left unasked, and therefore remain unanswered. Understandably, no interviewer wishes to burden a noted author with questions one assumes they may have answered hundreds of times. But given the remarkable variety of talented poets who have won Hopwood Awards over the decades, my sense was that asking even obvious questions might elicit an interesting variety of replies. So I set my interviewer's ego aside, and began with very basic queries drawn from my experience teaching undergraduate poetry workshops at Duke University in the late 1980's, and (years earlier), at Jackson Community College in Michigan. Having noted that students on these very different campuses tended to ask similar questions of visiting poets, I settled on a handful of standard questions, while adding one or two personalized for each.INCLUDES INTERVIEWS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH: Robert Hayden, John Ciardi, Anne Stevenson, Frank O'Hara, Marge Piercy, Nancy Willard, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Tom Clark, X.J. Kennedy, Patricia Hooper, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Garrett Hongo, Donald Beagle, Laura Kasischke, Tung-Hui Hu, Derek Mong.

Now is the time to be resolute in your personal journey with God. It will not occur by happenstance or default. It's not about checking off another "rule" or item on your "to do"list; rather, it's all about your choice to take your relationship with God to a higher level, whether you are an unbeliever, a new believer, or a seasoned sister!

"In 'Tyranny of Small Decisions, ' I applaud your tackling such an important political subject. The language, imagery, line breaks & shape of the poem are stellar. Your instincts are on target. It

Spoken word poetry, meant to be recited aloud, fusing performance poetry, storytelling, word play, improvisation, intonation and voice inflection. But before anyone gets to the stage, the poet's creative artistry first fills the page.

Memories of my life before and during my directorship of the Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University.

This book is the culmination of semester-long student research on the ways in which early modern English royal authority was created, legitimized, performed, and challenged through ritual, image, and text. Students completed this research while enrolled in Dr. Stephanie Koscak's spring 2016 undergraduate history course on English Kings, Queens, and Spectacle at Wake Forest University. This course had two main goals. First, it introduced students to major themes, questions, and debates in the history of monarchy and political culture between the reigns of Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and George II (r. 1727-1760), focusing on the use of media to glorify and challenge royal power. Our second goal was to explore how transformations in media impacted ideas about monarchy and political authority. We considered how authors-including kings and queens-constructed their own authority in print, and how early modern readers interacted with the expanding world of published texts and images. By studying both the history of monarchy along with changes in media, including the invention of the modern newspaper, the expansion of the engraving industry, and the rise of the public sphere, students came away from this course with a deeper, critical understanding of royal representation within the broader world of politics. The essays in this collection examine a diverse set of primary sources published in early modern England, including religious histories, collections of state documents, partisan tracts, cheap royal romances, and plays. Each of these items is held in Special Collections at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.

This anthology contains original essays by students taking a special topics seminar on Lars von Trier and his work in the Department of Communication at Wake Forest University. Library Partners Press has published this, the sixth volume in the Critical Media Studies Series, and it features student essays on Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia (2011), and The House That Jack Built (2018). Volume I, Student Essays on The Wire, was published in 2015; Volume II, Student Essays on Deadwood, was published in 2016; Volume III, Student Essays on Contemporary Sitcoms, was published in 2017; Volume IV, Student Essays on Education and Popular Culture, was published in 2017; and, Volume V: Student Essays on Gender in Nordic Cinema, was published in 2018.

All of my family of origin passed away by 2001, but in 2017, I looked at the massive paper trail left by my grandmother, mother, and father. For the first time, I discovered that the story of my adoption did not match the mountain of evidence set before me. I believe that the circumstantial evidence points to one conclusion: that I am an illegitimate daughter of the deposed shahanshah ("king of kings") of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. This startling discovery caused me to ask myself this question: What would I think of myself if I really were the daughter of the Shah of Iran?

THRIVER'S QUEST is part poetry, part memoir, and part healing guide. Hart uses poetry to share insights that help us better understand a male survivor's journey to thriving. The themes of surviving, searching, fighting, realizing healing, and thriving will be familiar to anyone who has experienced trauma. Living, learning, healing, and developing expertise as an attorney, actor, scriptwriter, poet and leadership coach have all been a part of his on-going THRIVER'S QUEST. We all know someone on this quest. This book can help us understand and support them. In this short, powerful book, Hart introduces his MiniQuest writing process - The Call, The Quest, and The Return - to help us tell our own stories, in our own way. This simple process is flexible - and can be used by male survivors and those who love them - to share what they are living through. When one family member is hurt, other family members also share the healing path. How to use this book: you can just read the poems to gain insight. You can use the poems with a therapist or in a group. You can use the writing guide to begin journaling or blogging. You can use the poems to help family and friends better understand you. Family and friends can read the poems to better understand what someone they love is living through. Hart says, "If this book helps just one person, then all I've lived through can serve a healing purpose. Thriving is possible." Hart knows it's true, because that's what he's living, too.

This guide originated in a class for English majors at Wake Forest University in fall 2017. Dr. Claudia Kairoff piloted the seminar based entirely on works by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers represented in Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Special Collections. While reading works by women ranging from Katherine Philips to Elizabeth Inchbald, the students examined original copies of the works and learned how the works were written, published, sold, and read. This course on women writers concluded with a group project designed to assist students and scholars who might visit our library in the future: each student researched one or two titles from the collection and produced short bibliographical essays. This published guide to ZSR Special Collections' holdings in the Restoration and long eighteenth century includes selected student essays, along with an introduction and a checklist of the library's holdings.

Fancy, a fifteen-year-old, is figuring out who killed her parents in 1974. Forced to live with her 19-year-old sister Eve and sis's lecherous husband in a duplex on the wrong side of the tracks, Fancy begins her quest to discover the identity of her parents' killers, despite the sheriff's ruling that it was a murder/suicide, and despite doubts expressed by many townsfolks regarding her sanity. People who Fancy assumes are allies betray her. Others thought of as enemies, are a big help. Through it all, Fancy follows leads provided by an albino doe whose soulful eyes remind her of her mother, and make the teen question the idea of reincarnation. Because of her mother's strong Christian faith, Fancy believes her mother could never have committed the crimes she's accused of, but Fancy has many questions she'd like to ask her deceased mama -- the main question is: "Why? Why did this happen to us?"

Picking up from the point at which Pursuing the Progressive Case ended, this second volume of essays observing the Obama presidency in real time charts the increasingly difficult conditions under which progressives within and beyond his administration struggled for leverage and impact during the President's second term. Foreign policy concerns play a bigger part in this second collection than in the first, reflecting the re-immersion of the US military in the Middle East conflict in spite of the run-down of the Iraqi occupation. But domestic issues surface here too, though in this volume less around presidential initiatives than around the defense of the achievements of Obama's first four years in office. Readers will find in The Progressive Case Stalled? critical reflections on economic and housing policy, on policy on poverty-alleviation and the easing of student debt, and on the contentious issue of trade deals and employment out-sourcing. Together, the essays gathered in this volume constitute an important contemporary evaluation of the blockages on progressive politics that were such a feature of Obama's second term: blockages coming from unexpected foreign developments, from unique levels of Republican Party opposition and intransigence, and from limitations in the President's own vision and leverage. Taken together with volume 1, the running commentary that is Observing Obama in Real Time will be an invaluable source of guidance both to future historians in years and to contemporary progressives attempting to build on the Obama legacy and to move beyond its shortcomings.

Written when the Obama presidency was in its infancy, Pursing the Progressive Case pondered the strengths and weaknesses of the president's first term, and pointed the way forward for those wanting to see a twenty-first century version of FDR's New Deal. The essays, many initially posted on The Huffington Post, provide a detailed commentary on the key political developments of Obama's first four years in the White House, each written as those developments were happening. Covering a wide range of issues - from financial reform and health care, through poverty and unemployment to the foreclosure crisis and the deployment of US troops abroad - the essays gathered here drew heavily on research and scholarship published simultaneously as Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments and Making the Progressive Case. Republishing these essays now helps remind us of the hopes and aspirations built into the Obama presidency from its inception, and contains vital clues to the pattern of political success and failure which then followed. Written without the wisdom of hindsight, drafted indeed in the thick of the political fights themselves, the essays gathered here provide a vital contemporary record of a presidency that will be long remembered for the quality of the intellect and oratory that were its defining hallmarks. Pursuing the Progressive Case offers new and vital arguments for engaging in progressive politics, arguments that might yet make a future progressive president more successful still.

I am a seventh-generation Florida Cracker, a product of Green Cove Springs, a small town in Florida that P.T. Barnum called "this salubrious and almost enchanted" place."Salubrious" means health-giving, pleasant, delightful, and Green Cove Springs is all of those things. However, I must part ways with Mr. Barnum, and contend that the place is most certainly enchanted, with no "almost" about it. I ended the Cracker legacy of my family by moving out of state as a young woman.When my mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2008, I came back more frequently to be with and care for her. Three years later, my husband committed suicide. As a way to heal, I returned to my hometown for extended stays, and immersed myself in a life I had left decades ago.This memoir is my heart song, a tribute to the beautiful, quirky place from where I came, the place that embraced and sheltered me when I needed a safe haven for a while.

Consistent with the character of Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University's motto, "Pro Humanitate" ("For Humanity"), the story line of STRONG MEDICINE could simply state, "WFU Health Sciences' new research and medical education campus downtown to lead two-hundred-plus-acre Piedmont Triad Research Park expansion and spur community's economic revitalization. Indeed, only some thirty acres of undeveloped land was needed to solve the medical school's chronic space needs. The decision to both meet that need and energize the economy with the simultaneous transformation of Winston-Salem's blighted entry to its eastern downtown, then composed of long- vacant tobacco factories, abandoned rail lines, an eyesore of a concrete production plant, and fields of Kudzu vines, echoes the medical school's historic and landmark 1941 relocation. This narrative's aim is to provide a firsthand description of the reasoning, events, complexities, and critical engagements of team members, community leaders, and government officials that composed the Wake Forest University Health Sciences' PTRP expansion initiative through its first decade of development, from 2002 to 2012.