Monsheeka W was a prisoner at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women when she wrote this piece, which was read during a public performance in Shambaugh Auditorium by the Women in Exile Project.The Women in Exile Project is a collaboration...
Meena Kandasamy of India discusses the problems she has faced with her official first name, Ilavenil. She discusses the political and religious origins of her name and that after wishing for a long time that she had a different surname, concludes...
Empson, W. (William), 1791-1852; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Dennistoun, James, 1803-1855
Autograph letter signed, written from East India College in 1851 or 1852, apparently to Leigh Hunt, regarding his work on a review of James Dennistoun's book.
Concerning addressee's favorable review of his Notes of a half pay in search of health; his collecting material for a memoir of Beeau Brummel; requests permission to make extracts of anecdotes about Brummel from the Gentleman's literary pocketbook,...
Bestselling author William Lashner, an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, reads from the seventh of his Victor Carl thrillers, "A Killer's Kiss."
The latest volume in Lashner's series about a Philadelphia district attorney...
Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Lee, S. Adams (Samuel Adams);
Concerning America's shabby treatment of Hunt. Story's propositions to Ticknor, Fields & Co.; their willingness to publish Hunt's Complete poems in two volumes, 30 pounds to be given to Hunt with ten percent of the sales after expenses paid;...