Each year, the Raven Book Store and the Lawrence Arts Center collaborate to honor two Douglas County writers they feel encompass the spirit of Langston Hughes, an American poet, social activist, novelist and playwright who spent his childhood in Lawrence. The Creative Writing Awards are given to
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(Via Publishers Weekly). Obituaries: Jenny Joseph, whose “Warning” inspired the launch of the Red Hat Society (women wearing purple, and a red hat), was 85. Her poem – which begins “When I am an old lady I shall wear purple / With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me” – was a very early
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