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The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...
Copper is an American crime drama television series created for BBC America by Tom Fontana and Will Rokos, who serve as executive producers along with Barry Levinson.The series stars Tom Weston-Jones as Kevin "Corky" Corcoran, a New York police officer in the Five Points area, Kyle Schmid as his friend and former commanding officer, the wealthy Robert Morehouse, Ato Essandoh as African ...
After Our War, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974) Blue Mountain, (Unicorn Press, 1982) Words for My Daughter, (Copper Canyon Press, 1991) Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems, (Copper Canyon Press, 1997, 2003) Like Family, (Red Dragonfly Press: Minnesota, 2009) Path, Crooked Path, (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
Copper is a television drama series created by Tom Fontana and Will Rokos for BBC America. It is set in 1860s New York City , during the American Civil War , and stars Tom Weston-Jones as an Irish immigrant policeman, or "copper", who patrols and resides in the Five Points neighborhood.
The Current War [a] is a 2017 American historical drama film inspired by the 19th-century competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over which electric power delivery system would be used in the United States (often referred to as the "war of the currents").
Parts III and IV, Copper Canyon Press, 1985; compilation of all four parts with selected new material, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1997. ISBN 978-1-55659-077-1; New and Selected Poems, Alan Swallow, 1964. The Movie at the End of the World: Collected Poems, Swallow Press, 1972. Poems for Little People, [Gloucester], c. 1973.
Sam Hamill (May 9, 1943 – April 14, 2018) was an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press [1] along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. He also initiated the Poets Against War movement (2003) in response to the Iraq War. [2] In 2003 Hamill he did a poetic tour in Italy, organised by writer Alessandro Agostinelli.
He is the author of the collection Crush (Yale University Press, 2005), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. [1] His second book of poems, War of the Foxes , was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2015.