Earlier this week, we talked with Brenda Ann Kenneally, an independent photojournalist who chronicles coming of age in post-industrial America. Her project, “Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City” won first place at the World Press Awards for Daily Life Stories in 2009, and provided the basis for the collaborative multimedia project “Women of Troy,” our [...]
Tag Archives: Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
Interview: Brenda Ann Kenneally on recording the lives of “Upstate Girls”
January 22, 2010 – 3:09 pm
Interview: Susan B.A. Somers-Willett on “Women of Troy”
January 19, 2010 – 4:53 pm
We spoke earlier this week with Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, who wrote a series of poems for the multimedia project “Women of Troy,” our latest Notable Narrative. A professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, Somers-Willett offers her thoughts on poetry as journalism, reporting from inside others’ lives, and collaborating with radio producer Lu Olkowski [...]
