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Circles Where the Head Should Be: Poems

Description: The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be are full of objects and oddities, bits of news, epic catalogues, and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often whimsical surface, however, lies a search for those connections we long for but so often miss, and a wish for art to bridge the gaps. “Circles Where the Head Should Be has its own distinctive voice, a lively intelligence, insatiable curiosity, and a decided command of form. These qualities play off one anothe… more
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Date: April 15, 2011
Creator: Wilkinson, Caki
Partner: UNT Press

Club Icarus: Poems

Description: With muscular language and visceral imagery, Club Icarus bears witness to the pain, the fear, and the flimsy mortality that births our humanity as well as the hope, humor, love, and joy that completes it. This book will appeal to sons and fathers, to parents and children, to those tired of poetry that makes no sense, to those who think lyric poetry is dead, to those who think the narrative poem is stale, to those who think that poetry has sealed itself off from the living world, and to those wh… more
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Date: April 15, 2013
Creator: Miller, Matt W.
Partner: UNT Press

Stray Home: Poems

Description: With poems that combine the self-scrutiny of Philip Larkin with the measure of Elizabeth Bishop, Amy M. Clark burnishes her first collection, Stray Home, with exquisite understatement and formal control. Sweeter than Larkin and more intimate than Bishop, these poems address the suppressed pain and shame of living as a childless woman in a world of mothers, the dissociation attendant on depression and fraught family relationships, and the search for a sense of belonging in the face of dislocatio… more
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Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Clark, Amy M.
Partner: UNT Press

[TBAAL upcoming programs letter board, June 2016]

Description: Photograph of a letter board display listing upcoming programs sponsored by the Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL), taken on day 8 of the 2016 Summer Youth Arts Institute. The display reads: "Upcoming Programs Season 39[,] June 2016 [--] Poets N Jazz 5 Battlin With Words [--] Comedy with Meshelle [--] Jazz with Martha Burks [--] 32nd Annual Summer Youth Arts Institute Tina Against All Odds The Musical."
Date: June 15, 2016
Creator: Latte Media Group
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Prison Poet]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a black prison poet under a 14 year sentence for narcotics dealing has been named as Assistant President for Academic Affairs at North Texas Station University in Denton.
Date: February 15, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a move which has been taken in stride by poet B. F. Maiz.
Date: February 15, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Black Poet]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a prison poet who has been serving his 14 year sentence on narcotics violations at the Federal Correctional Institute in Fort Worth.
Date: February 15, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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