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February 2007
The Big Read, Zora Neale Hurston, and me
You’ve may have heard about the Big Read Initiative of the NEA (see the Big Read blog), which creates community events around the US surrounding the reading of a single book. Seems like a worthy cause, given the initiative’s impetus, the 2004 Reading at Risk survey, which documented the decline of reading in American culture.
One of the authors featured in the Big Read program is Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mule Bone, Dust Tracks on Road, and Seraph on the Sewanee, among other great works.
Where do I figure in this tale of hope for literature? I built the just launched “official” Zora Neale Hurston Website!
My desire to do that sort of thing, literary oriented Websites, is why I named my company “Sonnet Media” so I’m delighted to have been involved in this project.
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Recent Comments
One of the reasons I publish online!
– L. Lee Lowe
on “Would He Do it Again?”
Last year Derrick Brown did living room readings. I don’t think anyone there had ever read his poetry; I had barely been introduced a few days before. http://vimeo.com/6013960
Compared to any staged, stacked or emceed poetry reading, well, it was kind of like learning you hadn’t ever had good sex.
Granted, he’s a more engaging poet than many, and he reads poems that should be read aloud, like they should sound. I still think that a lot of the intimacy would have been lost in any a more austere setting.
As a listener, it had a profound and searing impact; if I could speak for the non-poetry-reading kind, I’d say they could not help but connect with this living poetry that was funny and sad and sweet and took you somewhere.
– Emily
on “Would He Do it Again?”
Awesome! I always loved Sontag’s ‘Notes On Camp’. Lucid and concise.
http://e6n1.blogspot.com/
– Eeleen Lee
on “Not an Intellectual, but a Writer, a Reader, and a Dreamer”
