Ecocriticism and the Global Environmental Crisis : Interview of Paul Outka by Juan Carlos Galeano

Juan Carlos Galeano was born in the Amazon región of Columbia. He‘s a poet, translator and has done extensive research on Amazonian folklore. He teaches Latin American poetry and cultures of the Amazon basin at Florida State University. Paul Outka, Assistant Professor of U.S. literature at Florida State University, discusses Ecocriticism, an important and rapidly growing field of studies in North American universities. In 2009, Professor Outka‘s book, Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Palgrave Macmillan), won the 2009 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) biennial award for the best theoretical book written on literature and the environment published in 2007 and 2008. This interview took place during the summer of 2010 in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. A Spanish version of this interview was published in Kanatari, the main cultural journal of the Peruvian Amazon basin at Florida State University

Hugo Williams, self-styled anglo-american poet

Although his poetry gives every appearance of being pre-eminently 'English', Hugo Williams claims he is an 'Anglo-American' poet. This surprising assertion rests on his enthusiastic embrace of American popular culture as well as the construction of a style out of American Imagist, "Objectivist" and Confessional strategies. Both elements of the epithet Anglo-American are examined in relation to the poet's work and in the process Williams' claim is shown to be unsustainable, yet at the same time highly revealing of currents within English literary culture

To Honor the Poet: A Festschrift for Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: A Bibliographic Review of Resources for Teachers

As a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist, Divakaruni has gained a wide national and international audience. Her writing in multiple genres addresses cross-cultural complexities of self-identity, family relationships and community values. Most notable has been her continuing concern with these issues in connection with the experiences of Indian and Indian American women. Reviews of her work emphasize her boldly imaginative style of story-telling, poetic sensibility, creativity in genre crossing, and commitment to breaking down boundaries between serious and popular literature