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She is also the recipient of a john simon guggenheim memorial foundation fellowship 2005, a united states artist fellowship 2008, and a. She received a penbeyond margins award for her recyclopedia 2006. Subsequent to mullen s 2004 grants to artists award, mullen was awarded a pen beyond margins award for her poetry collection recyclopedia 2006. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read sleeping with the dictionary. Harryette mullen, a professor of english at ucla, is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently recyclopedia, which won a pen beyond margins award more about harryette mullen fran ross author. She is professor of english and african american studies at the university of. Her collections of poetry include spermkt 1992, sleeping with the dictionary 2002, recyclopedia 2006, and urban tumbleweed. For the hydrating drink that is harryette mullen s quintessential rift on gender, language, geography and legacy. Harryette mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs. It is this revisionary possibility that mullens slyly activist poems exploit.
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