She won two fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts, one was for fiction in 1982 and one was for poetry in 1987. During this time, she also met her literary agent, Susan Bergholz, who after seeing a small packet of short stories encouraged Cisneros to develop them into one what was to become Woman Hollering Creek. Cisneros won many awards for this including: the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction of 1991, the Qualitiy Paperback Book Club New Voices Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and was selected as a noteworthy book of the year by The New York Times and the American Library Journal. In 1995, Cisneros won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. She moved to San Antonio where she has she is now lecturing to students at a local arts center.
A Slight Hysterical Tendency – An Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper Fiction by standard definition is a body of literary work that is not real, or is imagined. So what do you get when you have a story that is in fact fiction, but is so personal to the author that is could almost be considered autobiographical? You get the fictional story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The story about a woman who is suffering from postpartum psychosis is parallel to the difficulties that Gilman faced in her own life. At a time in history when women were thought to be hysterical and not taken seriously especially in the area of mental health, Gilman bravely brought the topic to the surface in a dark, but truthful manner. Her use of imagery and personification throughout the writing draws the reader into the sick mind of a young mother struggling to find herself again and broaches the issue of feminism.
Sterling Brown: Renaissance poet One of the greatest and most influential writer and poet of the Harlem renaissance was Sterling Allen Brown. Brown Was born in on may first 1901 in Washington D.C. to Sterling Nelson and Adelaide Brown. Sterling Attended Harvard University where he did his graduate studies and later worked as a professor of English for forty years. He married Daisy Turnbull in 1927 and had one son. As a poet he many known works his best of which was also his first, Southern Road, published in 1932.
My smelly darling, Thinking back to our perfect weekend, where you would fart in my face and laugh like the complete poopfacedwoman you are, I can’t help but miss you. Even if you do crawl across your floor like a 6 year old child, only then beginning to craw, with your beloved blanky. I’m hoping that the rest of your day is completely amazing dear, and I hope to god that you fart aloud in class and everyone looks back to you and laughs, as mean as that sounds. To be honest that would make me a feel a lot better towards your farting in my face, which I do not appreciate one bit nor do I enjoy. I wish I could spend this weekend with you though unfortunately thanksgiving has decided to screw us over, preventing the copious amounts of sex we deserve, and the use of my new lubricant sample I got from the sexual health nurse.
Other novels and autobiographies by McKay include Banjo (1929), Banana Bottom (1933); A Long Way from Home (1937), and Negro Metropolis (1940). McKay’s viewpoints and poetic achievement set the tone for the Harlem Renaissance and gained the deep respect of younger black poets, including Langston Hughes (Academy of American Poets). Another notable figure during the Harlem Renaissance was Countee Cullen. He was born in 1903 in Ney York City. In 1922, he entered New York University.
The hallway was pitch-black but he could see perfectly, as he headed towards his father’s room. He pushed the door open with a loud creak and smiled madly at the sight of his father sleeping silently. He moved like a ghost to the bedside and started beating this father. Years of being beaten fuelled him, as every hit got harder and harder. His smile fills his face as he hears his father’s screams, when his nose shatters causing cartilage and blood to drip.
Carry Me Like Water by Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a rich and touching novel. I think it is an amazing story. The book is a story of interrelated stories with wonderful characters; the thoughtful and deaf Diego who lives in El Paso and is working on his suicide note as well as making friends with a cholo named Mundo who he finds stabbed in a dumpster, Mary or the Virgin Mary and wise, disrespectful Luz. There is also Jake and Joaquin who is a gay couple struggling with Joaquin’s dying of AIDS, Helen and Eddy is the rich couple in Northern California anticipating their first child and Lizzie is a nurse who one day finds out her AIDS patient was her twin brother and that he has given her his gift of being psychic and that she is really a Mexican named Maria de Lourdes. Each character is a mystery
Hoang 01 Lisa Hoang 124/01 Mrs.Maccherone Poe, the Father of Mystery Stories, uses many literary devices to create a specific mood to present the story smoothly. Growing up, Poe felt lonely and a sense of loss. Because of growing up with those emotions, Poe’s works are full of horror, mystery, and fear. Throughout the story of Fall House of Usher, a creepy feeling is maintained from the beginning to the end. Poe’s usage of literary devices and choice of words are what use to maintain the creepy feeling.
They were already acquainted with the boy and he went happily with them on that May afternoon. They drove him to within a few blocks of the Franks residence in Hyde Park then suddenly grabbed him, stuffed a gag in his mouth and smashed his skull four times with a chisel. He fell to the floor and bled to death in the car. When the brief bit of excitement was over, Leopold and Loeb casually drove away, stopped for lunch and then ended up near a culvert along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. After dunking the boy’s head underwater to make sure that he was dead, they poured acid on his face (so that he would be hard to identify) then stuffed his body into a drainpipe.
Harris’s work has appeared in American Visions, Essence, the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Savoy, The Advocate, and the award winning anthology Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America, Go The Way Your Blood Beats. A short novel “Money Can’t Buy Me Love” was published in Got To Be Real : Four Original Love Stories (December 2000). In 2002, his short fiction appeared in Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writers (Harlem Moon), a collection he co-edited with Marita