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Langston Hughes and Tupack Shakur – Cultural Messengers

Posted on March 29, 2008 by kevinyezbick

Tupac Shakur Langston Hughes Cultural Messages Mr. Jackson Langston Hughes – - people’s poet – the cultural messenger of Harlem for that period – one of the most versatile and controversial writers of the 20th century. 860 poems. – prolific … Continue reading →

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Grrrrrrrin. Jessamyn West and Me at MLA 2007

Posted on November 9, 2007 by kevinyezbick

Grrrrrrrin. Jessamyn West and Me at MLA 2007, originally uploaded by Kevin Yezbick. Ahhh yes. Many chins – milliseconds. Look how happy I am! The funny thing is – Seestore managed to steal my sunshine when Jessamyn said – “Of … Continue reading →

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Staff Day, Macbook, Beddy Bye

Posted on June 7, 2007 by kevinyezbick

Tomorrow is staff day at the library – where I’m lined up for two presentations. I can’t believe what a chilling effect my employment has on my writing here. I need to figure out how to work through that – … Continue reading →

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Daze and Daze of Delays

Posted on November 27, 2005 by kevinyezbick

Wow. November 4th. Really? That was the last time I sat down here and typed something up? Actually its not that hard to believe – because this is going to be just a teaser entry – if that. I’m still … Continue reading →

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Free Culture

Posted on January 28, 2005 by kevinyezbick

Reshelved Lessig’s Free Culture today. It was much more engaging than I was expecting. As someone going in knowing very little about the ways and mores of copyright law — the book reeled me in. Lessig leads you slowly into … Continue reading →

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The War Diaries of Jean-Paul Sartre

Posted on January 17, 2005 by kevinyezbick

Examining The War Diaries of Jean Paul Sartre or The longest entry…EVER! I picked this book off the shelf by happenstance as I meandered through the local library looking for an open computer to check the catalog for some other … Continue reading →

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Answer the Question!

Posted on September 8, 2004 by kevinyezbick

I never got around to that stream of consciousness thing – but I can make some sort of concerted effort here… I went back to the library the other day and returned all the programming books I had checked out. … Continue reading →

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Fathoms Down

Posted on April 28, 2004 by kevinyezbick

Half the fun of reading Melville’s works for me is diving into the murky references throughout. In reading The Library of America Melville – Typee, Omoo, Mardi for the past two months there have been waves of obscurity as frequent … Continue reading →

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