Publication News: The Dreamers Anthology

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, History Lessons, Publication News, Travel, Writing

In 2019,  the Beautiful Cadaver Project of Pittsburgh, Pennsyylvania put together an outstanding collection, The Dreamers Anthology: Writing Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jt. and Anne Frank; two of my poems, “Politics and the American Language” and “Still Birmingham” were published in it…

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Book Report: American Prometheus

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, Book Report, History Lessons, Reading

I am cranking my way through this outstanding biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. I have long been fascinated by Oppenheimer perhaps since I saw the footage in which he ominously…

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At the Table When Company Comes

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, History Lessons

It has been an extraordinary few days. November 4, 2008, just after 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, barely the dinner hour for those of us who live in the Pacific Northwest, Barack Obama was declared the 44th President of the United States. The day after, Wednesday, November 5th, was like a…

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