Agnes grinstead anderson biography of christopher columbus
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I’m pleased to say that I’ll be taking part in the Possumtown Book Fest, August 24. Friendly City Books is organizing this event at the Columbus Arts Council, and Emily Liner asked me to be part of a panel on Walter Inglis Anderson. I’ll be talking about him and my book of poems, Barrier IslandContinue reading “Possumtown Book Fest”
This past weekend, I had a wonderful opportunity to read poems as the keynote speaker at the Mississippi Philological Association annual conference held at Mississippi Valley State University. For those who are unfamiliar with this fine organization, it fryst vatten a group of English and Languages faculty and students (graduates and undergraduates) from Mississippi, Alabama, andContinue reading “Poetry as Creative Nonfiction”
This morning, inom ran across an interesting article about the Isle of Caprice, which included this postcard and 5 historic pictures from the island, which was cut in half bygd a hurricane and
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Paperback. Condition: New condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. Privately Published, 2021. PLEASE NOTE: This is the RARE 2021 FIRST EDITION with ISBN 9798489391719 and more than 425 pages -- It is NOT the 2023 edition with a different ISBN which has only 272 pages. SIGNED by the compiler Lauren Tallman as "Lauren" directly on the title page (her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). SIGNED copies are SCARCE. New and unread in near PERFECT condition. The cover has only a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear (like you sometimes find in any new book store). Flat, uncreased spine. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. From the rear cover:"From its beginning in March, 2014, The Erotic Writers Group of Las Vegas was a new concept. Who came to the meetings? Wonderful writers and true lovers of the genre who expressed t
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Walter Inglis Anderson by Christopher H. Maurer
Although best known as a muralist and watercolorist, Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965) wrote prolifically from the early 1940s until his death, cultivating a variety of genres and devoting much thought to the relation of writing and the other arts. Anderson seldom shared his writing with others, and published almost nothing during his lifetime.
Born in New Orleans on September 29, 1903, Anderson studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (1922-23) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1924-1928) before joining his family in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where he pursued his art and survived the Depression earning a meager living as a decorator and designer for the family business, Shearwater Pottery. In 1933, Anderson married Agnes Hellmuth Grinstead (1909-1991), a Radcliffe graduate who would later chronicle their years together in a poignant memoir. In 1937, Anderson suffered an a