Browning, Sarah

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Sarah Browning is Co-Director of Split This Rock Poetry Project and DC Poets Against the War. She is the author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007) and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology (Argonne House Press, 2004). The recipient of an artist fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, she has also received a Creative Communities Initiative grant and the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. Browning has worked as a community organizer in Boston public housing and as a political organizer for reproductive rights, gay rights, and electoral reform, and against poverty, South African apartheid, and U.S. militarism. She was founding director of Amherst Writers & Artists Institute, acreative writing workshops for low-income women and youth, and Assistant Director of The Fund for Women Artists, an organization supporting socially-engaged art by women. She has written essays and interviewed poets and artists for a variety of publications. From http://www.splitthisrock.org/who.html

From the description of Sarah Browning literary papers, 1985-2007, bulk 1997-2007. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 428092911

History concentrator and feminist activist, Sarah Browning (A.B. 1985 Harvard University) was a member of the Radcliffe Union of Students' Women's Studies Committee, and a founder of the Committee on Women in the History Department.

From the description of Papers, 1983-1986 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122506401

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creatorOf Browning, Sarah,. Poets Against the War records, 2003-2008. George Washington University
creatorOf Browning, Sarah. Sarah Browning literary papers, 1985-2007, bulk 1997-2007. George Washington University
creatorOf Papers of Sarah Browning, 1983-1986. Radcliffe College, Archives
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associatedWith Bovet, Philippa. person
associatedWith Harvard University corporateBody
associatedWith Harvard University. Dept. of History. corporateBody
associatedWith Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies. corporateBody
associatedWith Radcliffe Union of Students corporateBody
associatedWith Strauss, Carolyn L. (Carolyn Louise) person
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Massachusetts--Cambridge
United States
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American poetry
Poets, American
Protest poetry
Women college students
Women's studies
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Active 1983

Active 1986

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