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Greetings,


UACC's Frank Foster Memorial Library is full of poems, stories, photographs, articles, etc. that discuss many aspects of Appalachian culture and social issues that have and still influence people of Appalachia today. We've been getting positive feedback from the UACC community with our weekly posts on our Facebook pages, and many are curious about reading some of the contents in the library. Are you curious, too? Learn more about the library and the work UACC intern, Shannon Gillie, is doing to bring the library to life in the 21st Century in this week's blog post below.

Additionally, preview what's to come about UACC's Research Committee's Coronavirus data and research in the Core Column, catch up with some of the amazing things happening for poet and Core Member Pauletta Hansel and her poetry, and read more about UACC's Featured Artist of the Week!

Sincerely,
UACC
UACC Research Committee's August Covid-19 Research

Similar to June and July's Coronavirus research and data collection done by the Research Committee, August's data also looks at the Cincinnati Health Department's tracking of how Coronavirus has affected various neighborhoods, ages, genders and races since March 23. However, this time, Research Committee member, Mike Maloney, also observed anomalies within the data as well as monitoring testing sites in different sections of the city.

After the Research Committee shared their findings with different community groups, they were able to help the Holy Family testing site (which tested ~700 people) get masks donated by P&G. They continue to look for ways to use the research to advocate and help those communities that are often under-represented and under-funded.
 
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL BLOG POST

Hear Core Member Pauletta Hansel's Award-Winning Poetry
Listen to Core Member and poet, Pauletta Hansel, read the poem that won her the Chaffin/Kash Poetry Prize for First Place at the Kentucky State Poetry Society's (KSPS) annual conference in October. Read more about it HERE.

In addition to her award, Pauletta's poem "May 1, 2020" is now published in the Oxford American Magazine. Check out the latest issue HERE.
CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL PERFORMANCES


THIS WEEK'S FEATURED ARTIST



CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THIS ARTIST ON OUR CULTURAL DIRECTORY WEBPAGE
Call for Appalachian Artifacts
Northern Kentucky graduate student, Joe Andrews, is seeking Appalachian artifacts for his virtual exhibit. He is looking for primarily homemade musical instruments and/or religious or wartime objects but is open to anything folks are willing to lend him for the project. 

If you would like to lend an artifact, please email Andrew at andrewsj4@nku.edu. The deadline to submit an artifact is September 31st.

 
Calling All Poets

Hit the Mic Cincy is in need of Poets or MCs wanting to do a piece to encourage voting, uplift the community, or stop the violence at outdoor open mic voter registration events on Sundays between 4:30pm- 6:00pm in the College Hill area. No cursing allowed. Artists will be scheduled on various dates to allow for social distancing and mics will be sanitized.

Send submissions and contact info to 1mopoetry@gmail.com. They are Hitting the Mic to take back their communities
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