http://www.alikicaloyeras.com Essays, Poems, and Other Writings Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:25:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Peter Basil Caloyeras July 14, 1930 - December 5, 2006 http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/12/06/in-loving-memory/ I’ve posted the syllabus for my fall 2006 writing seminar at Penn, Good Girls, Bad Girls. http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/09/11/teaching-page-updated/ New pictures of Zoe from our sleepover last Friday on Flickr. Plus a ‘documentary essay’ of our first anniversary dinner at Delmonico’s. Fun fun fun! http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/06/13/new-photos-on-flickr/ I’ve posted a very rough work-in-progress on my Essays page–It’s an essay presenting my preliminary research on Close Up and H.D. and Bryher’s interest in G.W. Pabst, which will be the basis of my field exam. http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/06/13/work-in-progress/ I’m posting my recent working paper on Gwendolyn Brooks’s 1930s poetry published in black periodicals on my Essay page. It’s only preliminary, but I think the topic, which has been neglected by Brooks scholars, is important. Happy reading. . . http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/04/23/gwendolyn-brookss-early-poetry/ . . . on my poetry and translation pages. http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/03/31/new-content/ Presentation: American Graffiti and Jaws I. American Graffiti a. The Making of AG: ~ Universal Pictures/ Ned Tanen: After films like Easy Rider and The Graduate became hits in the late ‘60s, studio executives mortified . . . scrambled to tap into youth market. Lew Wasserman made Ned Tanen the head of Universal’s ... http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/03/30/57/ Oral Presentation: Cheryl Clarke, “After Mecca:” Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 2005). Cheryl Clarke: ~ Undergraduate at Howard University 1965-1969 ~ Practicing poet, essayist, and teacher in 1970s and 1980s ~ Returned to graduate school in 1991 for PhD ~ Writes “After Mecca” as a cultural ... http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/03/30/cheryl-clarkes-after-mecca-women-poets-and-the-black-arts-movement/ I went to Savannah a couple weeks ago for the opening of the new Jepson Center for the Arts, the Telfair Museum’s new contemporary art building, which houses three of my partner’s digital art works. The March 5 edition of the Savannah Morning News has a nice ... http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/03/23/jepson-center-in-savannah/ New pics of baby Peter on flickr. http://www.alikicaloyeras.com/2006/03/20/pbc-at-3-months/