Exhibition

Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library

March 15, 2008 - May 26, 2008

Nubian Dreams: Images of the Sudan

The Photography of Chester Higgins

June 20, 2008 - August 15, 2008

Who were the ancient people—living, farming, worshiping and journeying—along the Nile River as it carried life to the desert?

But how? And in what order?

My Dreams, My Works: Selections from the Library of Gwendolyn Brooks

August 22, 2008 - October 3, 2008

“My Dreams, My Works” features thirty-six items from Gwendolyn Brooks’s personal library, a significant portion of which the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library of Emory University acquired in 2006, adding to the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library.

Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics and Mass Politics

August 22, 2008 - December 14, 2008

The Lone Librarian Rides Again

October 20, 2008 - January 30, 2009

I have been riding motorcycles since 1962 and I have never stopped riding. But in 2006 I hadn’t had a long distance adventure in a while, and to celebrate my 60th birthday, I decided to ride to Alaska. On a 12-year old motorcycle.

 
From Georgia. Solo.

Don't You Remember?: Children's Books by Poets

December 8, 2008 - February 15, 2009

From nonsense to nursery rhymes, children’s books have introduced generations of children to both the pleasure of reading and the power of poetry. For poets the writing of children’s books provides much the same—a way of both recognizing young readers and honoring the initial appeal of words and images, the very backbone of poetry.

Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Deceber 5, 2008 - March 15, 2009

Between 1514 and 1866 an estimated 10.7 million people of African descent entered the Americas via the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the largest forced migration in history. At the slave trade’s peak, merchants in Europe, Africa, and the Americas annually dispatched 100,000 - 120,000 captives from Africa to the Western Hemisphere.