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Why publish with Dove
Feedback from authors about Dove Medical Press
We aim to provide the highest possible standard of service to our authors. Here is some of the feedback we received from authors in a recent survey:
- 100% found the online manuscript system easy to use
- 100% agreed that they received professional accurate service
- 97% would submit a manuscript with us again
- 96% received prompt communication throughout the publishing process
- 86% rated their level of satisfaction as Excellent (the other 14% rated us Good)
If you would like to provide a testimonial please contact us.
Liza Koster
"Dove Medical Press was all it claims to be: rapid response in reviewing, professional correspondence and specifically excellent work done by the copy editor." (Veterinary Medicine: Research and Reports)
Liza Koster
Ross University School of Verterinary Medicine, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Posted on 5 May 2015
Ahmed Saad Shalaby
"I was satisfied by the quick, high-quality, and professional publication service. It was friendly and polite. One day, I should publish again with Dove Medical Press." (International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease)
Ahmed Saad Shalaby
Department of Research, STEM Egypt School, Egypt
Posted on 1 May 2015
Ahmed Ali Sharaqi
"It was an interesting experience for me to publish with Dove Medical Press. I was excited by the excellent peer-review comments, the quick replies to emails, and by the highly professional editorial staff." (International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease)
Ahmed Ali Sharaqi
Department of Research, STEM Egypt School, Egypt
Posted on 30 Apr 2015
Mohammed Issam Hazem
"I am really impressed by the excellent, rapid service of the editorial office throughout the publication process. In addition to that, the personalized responses are great. It was a pleasure to me to work with Dove Medical Press." (International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease)
Mohammed Issam Hazem
Department of Research, STEM Egypt School, Egypt"
Posted on 29 Apr 2015
Tefik Zhurda
"An excellent, well organized and friendly team. Your service is impressive with professionalism. I'm very happy working with you . I'll certainly be submitting different manuscripts to you in the near future. Thank you very much for your kind support."
Tefik Zhurda
University Hospital of Trauma , Albania
Posted on 21 Apr 2015
Abdurehman Eshete Mohammed
"Emails and comments were replied to promptly and I have learnt a lot from the reviewers and the editors. I am happy to have published my paper with Dove Medical Press. I forward my deepest gratitude to all staff at Dove Medical Press. Keep it up!!!" (Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy)
Abdurehman Eshete Mohammed
Jimma University, Ethiopia
Posted on 21 Apr 2015
Ruth E Zielinski
"I was very impressed by all the editorial staff and the attention to detail that was given to my manuscript. The whole process was much less painful because of them!" (International Journal of Women's Health)
Ruth E Zielinski
University of Michigan School of Nursing, USA
Posted on 14 Apr 2015
Blanka Kores Plesničar
"One of the best publishers: quick, friendly and highly professional" (Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment)
Blanka Kores Plesničar
University Psychiatric Hospital Ljubljana and Medical Faculty Ljubljana, Slovenia
Posted on 24 Feb 2015
Thepakorn Sathitkarnmanee
"Your service is impressive with professionalism and prompt responses. I'm very happy working with you and all your staff. I'll certainly be submitting more manuscripts to you in the near future. Thank you very much for your kind support and assisstance." (Drug Design, Development and Therapy)
Thepakorn Sathitkarnmanee
Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Posted on 19 Feb 2015
Syed Khalid Imam
"A very dedicated, professional and supportive Dove Medical Press team. Special thanks to the Editor-in-Chief for his kind support, encouragement and unbiased comments." (Research and Reports in Endocrine Disorders)
Syed Khalid Imam
Liaquat National Hospital, Pakistan and Al-Mouwasat Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Posted on 18 Feb 2015
Si-Yuan Pan
"I received quick and satisfactory answers when I had questions or requests. The online submission process is very well organized and simple to use. The reviewer's comments were received very promptly and were constructive and helpful for improving the manuscript. I would like to express my gratitude to the editors and Dove Press staff, as well as the respected reviewers. Thank you for providing a very good publishing environment for authors. I highly recommend you to my colleagues and potential authors who want to publish their works." (Drug Design, Development and Therapy)
Si-Yuan Pan
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Peoples Republic of China
Posted on 17 Feb 2015
Pierson Rathinaj
"Overall the publication process is professional and excellent." (Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy)
Pierson Rathinaj
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Posted on 12 Feb 2015
Hans Idenfors
"We are pleased with the very quick and efficient handling during the publication process, from submission to publication." (Patient Preference and Adherence)
Hans Idenfors
Umeå University, Sweden
Posted on 10 Feb 2015
Andrea Nistri
"I wish to express my full satisfaction for the very efficient reviewing and publishing process concerning our manuscript." (Journal of Receptor, Ligand and Channel Research)
Andrea Nistri
International School for Advanced Studies, Italy
Posted on 21 Jan 2015
Mona Eklund
"I was very pleased with the whole process. Everything went smoothly with the web system for submission and the reviewer feedback was very thorough. The communication from the editorial team has been efficient and quick." (Patient Related Outcome Measures)
Mona Eklund
Lund University, Sweden
Posted on 19 Jan 2015
Mercedes Gimeno
"An excellent, well organized and friendly team. It was a pleasure working with them. The paper is deeply reviewed and referees' work is accurate. Their comments are very useful for improving the quality of the article. This is my 3rd collaboration with Dove Press and I hope to have the opportunity to collaborate with them again." (Open Access Rheumatology: Research and Reviews)
Mercedes Gimeno
Tedec Meiji Farma SA, Spain
Posted on 13 Jan 2015
Jason Johnson
"Fast, reliable and polite service, thank you." (Metalloproteinases In Medicine)
Jason Johnson
University of Bristol, UK
Posted on 11 Dec 2014
Carsten Bantel
"I found the entire publishing process very professional, especially the short time spans between each individual step - from initial submission to the published version" (Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment)
Carsten Bantel
Imperial College London, UK and European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen, Germany
Posted on 4 Dec 2014
Askwar Hilonga
"Just to say, thank you so much for your "stress-free" procedures and correspondences during the publication process of our article. Your services are extremely superior to your competitors." (Nanotechnology, Science and Applications)
Askwar Hilonga
Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania
Posted on 4 Dec 2014
Dr Igor Blum
"I am very impressed with the efficiency with which your journal manages the article journey from submission to publication and indexing. I have had dealings with many different journals over the years and can say with confidence that the efficiency with which you are processing articles is exceptional! It has been a pleasure working with you and I would be very happy to work with you again in the future." (Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dentistry)
Dr Igor Blum
King's College Hospital Dental Institute, University of London
Posted on 13 Nov 2014
Rebecca Sargisson
"Thank you for the opportunity to publish with you. The process was efficient and thorough and your staff very helpful and accommodating." (Veterinary Medicine: Research and Reports)
Rebecca Sargisson
University of Waikato, New Zealand
Posted on 4 Nov 2014
Kingsley Aile
"Dove Press must be deeply appreciated for their quest for excellence and prompt delivery of service. The editorial team is wonderful especially for their support during our publications. Thanks." (Journal of Blood Medicine)
Kingsley Aile
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Posted on 30 Oct 2014
Nejmeddine Ouerghi
"I would like to thank you for your collaboration. It is a pleasure to keep working with you and I hope we can do so again in the near future." (Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine)
Nejmeddine Ouerghi
University of Jendouba, Tunisia
Posted on 28 Oct 2014
Oliver Grundmann
"An excellent editorial team, prompt responses to inquiries, fast proof reading, and overall very satisfying experience." (Risk Management and Healthcare Policy)
Oliver Grundmann
University of Florida, USA
Posted on 16 Oct 2014
Katja Adie
"Thank you for your excellent editorial work. Meticulous, speedy and very good communication." (International Journal of General Medicine).
Katja Adie
Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, UK
Posted on 16 Oct 2014
Dipankar Das
"This is one of the best review processes I have ever seen...Congratulations Eye and Brain and Dovepress for such a professional way of management...I wish a great success to all at the publishing house." (Eye and Brain)
Dipankar Das
Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya, India
Posted on 25 Sep 2014
Mario Sechi
"I am very impressed by the quality of the review, very useful to improve the manuscripts. Many thanks to all the Dove Team and the Editorial staff for their prompt feedback and efficiency, and for their professional support and assistance during all steps of the publication process." (International Journal of Nanomedicine).
Mario Sechi
University of Sassari, Italy
Posted on 18 Sep 2014
Volkmar Weissig
"Working with Dovepress was among my best publishing experiences, very fast, very professional, and very user friendly." (International Journal of Nanomedicine)
Volkmar Weissig
Midwestern University, USA
Posted on 18 Sep 2014
Laura Montoya López
"I want to express my gratitude to DovePress and Clinical Ophthalmology for the excellent processing, publishing and friendliness of the people working there. It was a pleasure for my group and I working with you, and we hope to do it again soon." (Clinical Ophthalmology)
Laura Montoya López
Pontifical Bolivarian University, Colombia
Posted on 19 Aug 2014
Adelfo Escalante
"I think that it was a very efficient process, particularly the proofreading and the editing process of the final version." (Research and Reports in Medicinal Chemistry)
Adelfo Escalante
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Posted on 25 Jul 2014
Ivan Salido-Guadarrama
"The level of support and follow up by the journal staff is top quality and makes the publishing process easy to perform." (OncoTargets and Therapy)
Ivan Salido-Guadarrama
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Posted on 25 Jul 2014
Jindan Luo
"The patience and kindness of the editorial staff really impressed me. Thanks!" (OncoTargets and Therapy)
Jindan Luo
Zhejiang University, People's Republic of China
Posted on 25 Jul 2014
Patricia Pearce
"A special thank you to the editorial staff who supported getting this publication completed. Communication was efficient, clear and professional. And process went quite smoothly. Thanks." (Nursing Research and Reviews)
Patricia Pearce
Loyola University New Orleans, USA
Posted on 1 Jul 2014
Cornelis Van Noorden
"I was impressed by the service provided during the publication process from acceptation of the manuscript up to publication." (International Journal of Nanomedicine)
Cornelis Van Noorden
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Posted on 12 Jun 2014
Eshan Henshaw
"The singular action of the Editor's waiver of the processing fee, for me as a self-sponsored relatively new researcher from a developing country did more for me than he can imagine. It gave me the badly needed boost to forge ahead with my strong desire for research in a continent where relatively little of such goes on. Knowing that the much I can do, can be accessed by the global community. I also wish to acknowledge the efficiency of Ms Phoenix Thomas, the Production Coordinator of Dove Medical Press. In all, my first experience with Dove Medical Press has been quite rewarding." (Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics)
Eshan Henshaw
University of Calabar, Nigeria
Posted on 29 May 2014
Tieli Wang
"I am extremely satisfied by the service provided by the Dovepress journal, Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy. Words can not express my gratitude for the professional services provided by editors, reviewers and correspondents." (Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy)
Tieli Wang
California State University Dominguez Hills, USA
Posted on 27 May 2014
Mezgebu Yitayal
"I am really happy with the speed of the publication process, the care given to produce a quality article, and the responses given by the editorial staff." (Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare)
Mezgebu Yitayal
University of Gondar, Ethiopia
Posted on 20 May 2014
Myint Aye
"I received an excellent service in this publication process." (Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety)
Myint Aye
Hull York Medical School, UK
Posted on 13 May 2014
Sureewan Duangjit
"I have had a good experience with the process of submitting papers with Dove Medical Press. I received prompt responses from Dove Medical Press staff throughout the publishing process. Moreover, the processing is very efficient and fast. I would submit a manuscript to them again." (International Journal of Nanomedicine)
Sureewan Duangjit
Silpakorn University, Thailand
Posted on 8 May 2014
John Sturgeon
"I was very pleased with my publishing experience through PRBM, including the speed and quality of the reviews, editorial process, and publication process. I will absolutely consider publishing through Dove Medical Press again in the future." (Psychology Research and Behavior Management)
John Sturgeon
Arizona State University, USA
Posted on 16 Apr 2014
Allen Mangel
"I found the staff at Dove Press very assessable and helpful throughout the process. It was an outstanding experience with quick responses and high quality work. Thank you!" (Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology)
Allen Mangel
RTI Health Solutions, USA
Posted on 8 Apr 2014
Jill Norris
"I find Dove Press to be THE BEST publisher for (a) quick turnaround for reviews, particularly the first review; (b) the quality of responses from editors and reviewers; and (c) detailed professional copyediting--in fact, the best copyediting I have ever seen." (Journal of Healthcare Leadership)
Jill Norris
University of Calgary, Canada
Posted on 4 Mar 2014
Claudio Sergio Batista
"We are so happy to publish in DovePress. The proccess is quick and effective, and we had all the support needed to complete it." (Open Access Surgery)
Claudio Sergio Batista
Faculty of Medicine of Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Posted on 11 Feb 2014
Esme Soan
"Great personalised and fast email responses, a pleasure to work with. Would recommend to other authors." (Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare)
Esme Soan
University of Queensland, Australia
Posted on 4 Feb 2014
Myron Szewczuk
"Two thumbs up for an excellent job well done. I was very impressed. The total article views are now 655 (13 days since it went online). I am looking forward to when the article is posted in PubMed. It will be interesting to see the responses. Congratulations are in order to the staff for their professionalism." (OncoTargets and Therapy).
Myron Szewczuk
Queen's University, Canada
Posted on 30 Jan 2014
Yeshigeta Gelaw
"It was a great pleasure and experience to publish in Clinical Ophthalmology. For me, the fast and thorough review and editorial system are remarkable. The friendliness of the people working for Dove Press at different levels of the publication process is extraordinary. Hope you will keep up the good work in availing scientific information to the world." (Clinical Ophthalmology).
Yeshigeta Gelaw
Jimma University, Ethiopia
Posted on 30 Jan 2014
Christian Delles
"The personal emails with the production coordinator (one person throughout the whole publication process) are great and it couldn't be any better." (International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease)
Christian Delles
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Posted on 24 Dec 2013
Rayaz A Malik
"Very professional and efficient publication process". (Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology).
Rayaz A Malik
University of Manchester, UK
Posted on 7 Jan 2014
Yousif Subhi
"Publishing with Dove Press has been a great experience. I am very happy with the prompt and friendly communication, and the rapid and professional peer-review process. Keep up the good work!" (Clinical Ophthalmology)
Yousif Subhi
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Posted on 10 Dec 2013
Michael Schatman
"Kudos to the Dove team. I'm associated with (way too) many journals - 10 at this point - and your staff is by far the most efficient, accommodating, and buttoned-up I have seen!!!!! Working with Dove is a delight!" (Journal of Pain Research)
Michael Schatman
Foundation for Ethics in Pain Care, USA
Posted on 6 Dec 2013
Azuana Ramli
"Everyone at Dovepress was very helpful in guiding authors at every stage of the publication. They were also very prompt and professional in answering queries and providing feedback. Overall, I had a very good experience publishing with Dovepress and will definitely come back with a new manuscript soon." (Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management)
Azuana Ramli
United Nations University-IIGH, Kuala Lumpur
Posted on 5 Dec 2013
Edward Zimbudzi
"I had a very wonderful experience publishing my paper in the International Journal of Renovascular disease. The manner in which the publication process was conducted was very professional. The time taken from article acceptance to publication is second to none. Great job!" (International Journal of Renovascular Disease)
Edward Zimbudzi
Monash Health, Australia
Posted on 22 Nov 2013
Ditsapelo McFarland
"It was really a great pleasure working with Dove staff. The rapidity with getting my manuscript published was amazing. Thank you very much and keep up the good job." (International Journal of Women's Health)
Ditsapelo McFarland
Adelphi University, USA
Posted on 29 Oct 2013
Sujit Bhansali
"Excellent service, prompt and quick reply by executives and rapid publication process prove that Dove Press is the best." (Research and Reports in Medicinal Chemistry)
Sujit Bhansali
Poona College of Pharmacy, India
Posted on 22 Oct 2013
Ann D Colosia
"The editorial staff at DMSO is highly competent and diligent. Their suggestions were very helpful, with prompt communication. It was a very great pleasure to work with them!" (Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy)
Ann D Colosia
RTI Health Solutions, USA
Posted on 19 Sep 2013
James Haddox
"The editorial process of JPR was expedient and efficient. The editorial feedback was thoughtful and helpful. I was quite impressed with the entire process from submission to publication." (Journal of Pain Research)
James Haddox
Purdue Pharma, USA
Posted on 10 Sep 2013
Visweswara Rao Pasupuleti
"I am very happy to publish with Dove press (International Journal of Nanomedicine). The overall process was excellent, rapid and highly professional. The reviewers' comments were meaningful and helpful. I got prompt replies from the staff when I had queries. The LIVE CHAT is an awesome facility provided by Dove press. I will definitely consider submitting future manuscripts to Dove press journals and I would recommend my professional colleagues also without any hesitation." (International Journal of Nanomedicine)
Visweswara Rao Pasupuleti
University of Science, Malaysia
Posted on 3 Sep 2013
Jörg Huwyler
"Thank you for the excellent and high quality service. It was a pleasure to publish in your journal." (International Journal of Nanomedicine)
Jörg Huwyler
University of Basel, Switzerland
Posted on 30 Aug 2013
Liana W. Susanto
"It was a pleasure to have worked with Dovepress. Your prompt response to our inquiries was impressively quick and just what we need. And thumbs up for your fast and qualified publication process." (Drug Design, Development and Therapy)
Liana W. Susanto
Dexa Laboratories of Biomolecular Sciences, Dexa Medica Group
Posted on 22 Aug 2013
Judit Takacs
"The publication process was great!! Thank you for being a model organization - will publish here again." (Clinical Interventions in Aging)
Judit Takacs
University of Manitoba, Canada
Posted on 31 Jul 2013
Jessica Brennan
"Process to publish the paper was very easy and flowed well. Responses were prompt and the staff were extremely helpful. I would recommend this journal to anyone looking to publish." (Clinical Pharmacology: Advances and Applications)
Jessica Brennan
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, USA
Posted on 11 Jul 2013
Amy Hester
"Thank you for a very positive experience and for providing a venue to make research and other information quickly available." (Clinical Interventions in Aging)
Amy Hester
UAMS Medical Center, USA
Posted on 12 Jun 2013
Giselle Saurez Martínezz
"My greatest gratitude and congratulations to Dovepress staff for its exceptional dedication, very fast interchange and excellent professionalism." (OncoTargets and Therapy)
Giselle Saurez Martínezz
Center of Molecular Immunology, Cuba
Posted on 25 Jul 2013
Thiyagarajan Paramadayalan
"The editorial board consists of renowned experts in the field. I would like to thank Dovepress for the excellent and highly professional process." (Energy and Emission Control Technologies)
Thiyagarajan Paramadayalan
General Motors, India
Posted on 12 Jun 2013
Joe Anderson
"I think the process was as straight forward and simple as any I have experienced. I also felt the peer review was meaningful and rapid. Overall, the process was simple and efficient. I will definitely consider submitting future papers to a Dovepress journal." (Patient Preference and Adherence)
Joe Anderson
University of New Mexico, USA
Posted on 14 May 2013
Zainab Samaan
"I liked the online system, it was very easy to use with efficient fast service. The reviewers were very helpful with thoughtful comments. Their feedback is greatly appreciated. I have no concerns at all and am very likely to submit to Dovepress again. Overall I have had a very positive experience. Thank you" (Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare)
Zainab Samaan
McMaster University, Canada
Posted on 14 May 2013
Andra James
"We were very impressed with the quick turn around and the very competent editing process. I have 100 peer-reviewed publications in many different journals and I am not easily impressed!" (International Journal of Women's Health)
Andra James
University of Virginia, USA
Posted on 7 May 2013
Vijay Upreti
"I am quite impressed with excellent professional services provided by the editor, the editorial staff of CPAA & the publishing staff of Dove Medical Press. I am very happy to recommend CPAA to my peers." (Clinical Pharmacology: Advances and Applications)
Vijay Upreti
Bristol-Myers Squibb, USA
Posted on 29 Apr 2013
Valerie Ferro
"I have a lot of experience in publishing, editing and reviewing scientific papers in a range of journals. Dovepress has the most user friendly online submission facility from manuscript processing to publication. The staff are also exceedingly helpful." (Open access Journal of Contraception)
Valerie Ferro
University of Strathclyde, UK
Posted on 17 Apr 2013
Martin Land
"Very pleasant experience throughout the manuscript preparation, review and publication process. Reviewer comments were constructive and diplomatic, and addressed issues that improved the quality of the finished publication." (Clinical Cosmetic, and Investigational Dentistry)
Martin Land
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
Posted on 23 Apr 2013
Edward Zimbudzi
"I just want to say that I have dealt with many journals and the experience I had with your journal is no where near my previous experiences. It's exceptionally good. I would recommend this journal to my professional colleagues without any hesitation." (International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease)
Edward Zimbudzi
Monash Health, Australia
Posted on 16 Apr 2013
Sensuke Konno
'Your editorial team is superb and does such a great job. We are very happy and appreciate them.' (International Journal of General Medicine)
Sensuke Konno
New York Medical College, USA
Posted on 26 Mar 2013
Carina Wattmo
'I am very pleased that I was able to correct the typeset manuscript until it was completely accurate, and be able to approve the pdf file. I got quick responses from the staff when I had any questions about the status of the manuscript, and they provided essential information during the publication process.' (Clinical Interventions in Aging)
Carina Wattmo
Lund University, Sweden
Posted on 26 Mar 2013
Andrea Petznick
'It has been a pleasure to work with you and I will highly recommend my colleagues to publish with you. The rapid reviewing process and the fantastic communication made publishing a very good experience' (Clinical Ophthalmology)
Andrea Petznick
Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore
Posted on 27 Mar 2013
Monica Robotin
"On both occasions I published with Dove I received highly professional assistance, delivered courteously and promptly. The same person handled my papers throughout the editorial process and the personal attention stood out among my recent publishing experiences - please keep up the good work and continue to regale us with old fashioned service!" (International Journal of General Medicine)
Monica Robotin
University of Sydney, Australia
Posted on 12 Mar 2013
Sidney Julio de Faria e Sousa
"We had a very good impression toward the editorial board. The reviewers are sincerely committed to help the authors to improve their work. This is encouraging." (Clinical Ophthalmology).
Associate Professor Sidney Julio de Faria e Sousa.
Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Posted on 5 Mar 2013
Jacobo Abadi
"The editiorial staff's promptness, competency and professionalism is remarkable." (Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics).
Dr Jacobo Abadi
Jacobi Medical Center, North Central Bronx Hopspital, Bronx, USA.
Posted on 6 Mar 2013
Joseph Kaempf
"I especially appreciate the speed and professionalism of Research and Reports in Neonatology. I have been impressed with many of the manuscripts I have read in this journal in the past year. Open access format, and a fair, knowledgeable, and helpful review process make this journal quite appealing." (Research and Reports in Neonatology)
Joseph Kaempf
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, OR USA
Posted on 12 Mar 2013
Peter Veranic
In answer to the question; What prompted you to publish your Open Access paper in this journal?
"High citations of our previous work in this journal and correct and friendly communication with the editors." (International Journal of Nanomedicine)
Professor Peter Veranic
Institute of Cell Biology, Medical Faculty of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Posted on 5 Mar 2013
Jeff Unger
"There is no doubt that the personalized service and professionalism of your staff is the best in the business. When I consider publishing, I always think of Dove Press first." (Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy)
Jeff Unger MD
Catalina Research Institute, CA, USA
Posted on 22 Mar 2012
Rafat Siddiqui
"I am very impressed with the quality of review process, excellent help form the editorial office for editing, and a rapid publication after its acceptance. The on-line tracking to monitor # of viewers of my article is a great thing. Congratulations to the editorial board and the publisher for bringing a very nice research journal." (Journal Inflammation Research)
Rafat Siddiqui, PhD
Indiana University Health/Indiana University School of Medicine, IN, USA
Posted on 22 Mar 2012
Aliya Shakeel
"I think DMP is wonderful. Your services are efficient and extremely prompt. I am floored with the professionalism that you extended us throughout the publication process. I have no complaints whatsoever. I truly appreciate the quick and crisp communication of the personnel involved. Your online submission system is hassle-free and user-friendly. It made things just so much easier. I am not just a satisfied customer, I am a delighted one! Special thanks to the reviewers for critiquing our paper and guiding us to make it publication-worthy, and to Luke for all the hand-holding at the proof reading stage. Thank you, one and all, at DMP. I am certain that you will soon be amongst the top ranked publishing houses globally." (Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials)
Dr Aliya Shakeel
Vedic Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India
Posted on 2 May 2012
Dr Stefan Walzer
"Fast turn around with a high-quality review phase gives you the best and fastest way to get your scientific research published and made available to the community." (Clinicoeconomics and Outcomes Research)
Stefan Walzer
MArS Market Access & Pricing Strategy UG (h.b.), Weil am Rhein, Germany
Posted on 13 Sep 2012
Hager Bourogâa
"I thank all the team of Dovepress, especially VMRRJ for their efficacy and quick answers, and I would like to say that your service is very professionel and comfortable." (Veterinary Medicine; Research and Reports)
Hager Bourogâa
Institut Pasteur Tunis
Posted on 27 Sep 2012
Anne Hogden
"I was particularly impressed with the timing and quality of communication from Dove Press staff. I was never in any doubt as to the progress of my article and the team were very responsive to any questions I had. Thank you to all the team for a great publishing experience." (Patient Preference and Adherence Journal)
Anne Hogden
University of New South Wales, Australia
Posted on 1 Oct 2012
Enrique R. Soriano
"The submission process was very easy and the communication with the editors was very good. I am very satisfied with the quality of the edition of the article. I have already published before in Dovepress and is always a pleasure." (ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research)
Enrique R. Soriano
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Posted on 27 Sep 2012
Tunde Csepany
"It has been the best review process that I have experienced. The online manuscript system which is very easy to use, makes the Journal very professional. Congratulations to the editorial board and the publisher."
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
Dr Tunde Csepany
University of Debrecen
Posted on 25 Oct 2012
Quan Zhou
"Undoubtedly, the Dove Press has a very efficient team responsible for manuscript processing. I think Dove Press is the best one with respect to service spirit. I believe Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management will have an impact factor for SCI in the future." (Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management)
Professor Quan Zhou
Zhejiang University, China
Posted on 23 Nov 2012
Posted on 28 Nov 2012
Dr F. Mukora-Mutseyekwa
"I was really impressed by the efficiency and professionalism demonstrated during the processing of my publication." (Patient Preference and Adherence)
Dr F. Mukora-Mutseyekwa
Africa University, Zimbabwe
Posted on 15 Feb 2013
Ronald Shapiro
"Quality Editorial and Publication staff. Excellent communications, all stages easy to navigate." (Orthopedic Research and Reviews)
Dr Ronald Shapiro
University of Toledo College of Medicine, USA
Posted on 15 Feb 2013
Nicola Luigi Bragazzi
"I have particularly appreciated Dove Press for its professionalism, its kind editorial assistance, the quick, prompt but always fair and constructive process of review, and the possibility of knowing the exact status of my manuscripts. I do strongly recommend publishing with Dove Press." (Psychology Research and Behavior Management)
Dr. Nicola Luigi Bragazzi
School of Public Health, Department of Health Sciences
University of Genoa, Italy
Posted on 15 Feb 2013
Sandip Mukhopadhyay
"Throughout the process from submission of manuscript till publication, you had always provided a solid professional service. At any point of time, whenever I have e-mailed for some reason, I have received a prompt and relevant answer. You are one of the finest publication house in the field of medical journals...." (Local and Regional Anesthesia)
Dr Sandip Mukhopadhyay
Christian Medical College, Ludhiana
Posted on 23 Feb 2012
Guillermo Tellez-Isaias
"..I am so impressed with the professionalism of this journal and its people" (Veterinary Medicine: Research and Reports)
Dr Tellez
University of Arkansas, USA
Posted on 8 Nov 2011
Paula E Bobrowski
"This was the best publishing experience I have encountered in my career. The fast turn around was amazing and appreciated...Keep up the excellent work!" (Journal of Healthcare Leadership)
Paula E. Bobrowski
Auburn University, AL, USA
Posted on 25 Nov 2011
M Rakibul Islam
"I have received tremendous professionalism throughout the publication process. So, publishing an article with Dove press is the most incredibly excellent I have ever experienced" (Open Access Journal of Contraception)Dr M Rakibul Islam
Department of Rural Sociology
Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh
Posted on 2 Mar 2012
Shakil Ameerudden
"The peer review was an excellent guide to improve my medical article. And I also would like to express my great appreciation for the prompt, courteous and professional assistance since the submission of my manuscript. It has been a pleasure working with Dovepress." (International Medical Case Reports Journal)
Dr Shakil Ameerudden
Tianjin Medical University, China
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NEW ORLEANS -- First lady Michelle Obama dropped by the Royal Castle Child Development Center in Hollygrove Tuesday afternoon. Her visit focused on encouraging healthy living.
'We're jumping in a circle until it's time to stop!' sang a classroom full of kids.
It's not everyday that students get to jump, march and brush up on their 1-2-3's with the first lady. However, students at Royal Castle got to do just that on Tuesday afternoon.
'I feel really honored that she came here at Royal Castle, it was really awesome,' said Pearlie Harris, director of the children's center.
The visit highlighting the school's involvement with a special 'Eat, Sleep, Play' program that works to improve kid's health and end child obesity.
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After storytelling and a little exercise, kids and grown-ups alike walked away inspired.
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Posted on Friday, August 8th, 2014 by Germain Lussier
The biggest news this week came from Warner Bros, who gave release dates to ten upcoming DC Comics movies through 2020. Nine of those are untitled and the first, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, will be out March 25, 2016. While untitled, we have a pretty good idea what a few of those movies are going to be. Justice League is a lock. Wonder Woman has a good shot. Shazam is a strong possibility and a few others.
Fortunately Dan Fellman, Warner Bros.' president of domestic distribution, spoke to Entertainment Weekly and said some of the titles will officially be announced later this month. He also commented on the seemingly strange strategy of opening a massive blockbuster in March and teased that Justice League might follow Dawn of Justice quickly. Read about the potential Justice League release date and more below. Read More »


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Ara Lee Pearson, 83, of Peoria, Illinois, formerly of Taylorville, died at 11:15 a.m., Friday, June 18, 2010, at Rosewood Care Center, Peoria, Illinois.
She was born May 4, 1927, in Taylorville, the daughter of Frank A. and Lela Fern Logan Ward. On July 27, 1952, she married Elwood Marshall Pearson, Jr. in Taylorville. He preceded her in death on February 12, 1996. Mrs. Pearson graduated from Illinois State University in 1949 with a degree in Education. She taught business classes in Trenton, Mt. Pulaski, and Taylorville High School, and later was a substitute teacher for District 150 in Peoria. She retired in 1985. She was a member of Pi Omega Pi and Kappa Delta Epsilon Sorority at I.S.U.. and was active with the Methodist Medical Center Service League in Peoria.
Mrs. Pearson was also preceded in death by her parents and her twin sisters, Jane and infant Ilene Ward.
Surviving are her daughter, Karen Slane, of Peoria; and son, Kevin Marshall Pearson, of Wichita Falls, Texas. Grandchildren are Christine Slane of Lisle, Illinois, Brian M. Pearson of Peoria, Illinois, and Douglas K. Pearson of Centralia, Illinois.
She was of the Methodist faith.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 24, at McClure Funeral Home, Taylorville, with Rev. Richard Smith officiating. Burial will be in Old Stonington Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until the time of service in the funeral home on Thursday. A brief reception at Old Stonington Baptist Church will immediately follow the burial.
She will fondly be remembered for always seeing the good in all people and situations, her candy and noodles, her love of entertaining, holiday decorating, and especially travelling.
The family would like to express their sincere thanks and gratitude to the staff of Rosewood Care Center and Passages.
Memorials may be made to the Methodist Medical Center Service League and Alzheimer's Association.
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The fantasy strategy-wargame comes from Russian developer Ino-CO who previously developed Fantasy Wars that was released via Atari in 2007. This new game will feature a non-linear storyline as players will go on an "epic quest to restore the former glory of the Elven race". The game will also allow players "to create their own missions and campaigns and share them in multiplayer mode."
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Campbellville residents are growing frustrated about what will become of their neighbourhood park when it goes through redevelopment this spring.
Several turned out for the Town of Milton's Community Services Standing Committee meeting Monday night to voice their concern about the park plan for the Campbellville Old Park and whether an outfield fence of a baseball diamond will remain intact or torn down.
The issue resurfaced last November when Ward 4 Councillor Rick Malboeuf questioned whether Town staff went too far in making modifications to the park plan, which included removing the outfield fence of a baseball diamond to accommodate a walking trail. He believed changes went beyond the minor modifications staff were permitted to make when the plan was approved in late June.
Council directed Town staff to clarify whether the appropriate direction was followed.
Staff returned to the committee meeting Monday with a report stating they felt they followed Council's direction, only making one minor change to the concept plan with input from groups who use the diamond and residents in the area. The report states during two additional meetings in the summer, the interested parties agreed the fence would be removed to accommodate a hard-surfaced looped trail system. Peewee level ball would be moved to Brookville Park, but t-ball, rookie ball and mosquito level ball would still be able to continue at Campbellville Park.
Staff decided to follow up with Brookville Campbellville Minor Baseball following the concerns that were raised at the November council meeting.
The report states the group changed its direction, wanting the existing outfield fence and peewee level ball to be maintained at Campbellville Old Park.
With that recent revelation, staff recommended reverting to the originally approved concept plan to guide the next detailed design phase and move the project forward.
Residents continue to be divided on the issue, with the fence being a major bone of contention. While some argued that taking down the fence will provide a more open space for children and people to gather, walk and play, others argued that keeping the fence up will keep Campbellville's baseball heritage alive and well.
Campbellville resident Marcus Whittington appeared as a delegate at the meeting to offer a compromise, encouraging staff to look into the idea of having a hedge fence for the field, which he has seen work well at parks he's played at in the U.S.
He believes the park should be inclusive to the whole community, acting as a multi-use area where the young and old can gather to enjoy outdoor space.
"Every resident has different needs, desires, wants and focus," said Whittington. "I personally love the game of baseball, but I respect others for what they want and need with respect to the park. The park has limited space and that is probably the paramount issue at hand."
Kent Sykes, who lives directly across from the park, says this issue is keeping him up at night.
As a resident of Milton for the last 20 years and Campbellville in particular for the last 10 years, he said he was thrilled when the opportunity to redevelop the park came along to build it into a real community hub.
He participated in a number of meetings to give his input, but after what has transpired over the last year, Sykes said, he doesn't believe the interest of the whole community is being met.
He asked committee members to consider their responsibilities.
"It's called civitas and even the Romans knew the connection that belonging to a community made you a somebody and that was the most important thing you could be back thousands of years," he said. "I believe it's council's responsibility to make that decision based on public good and not just the interest of special-interest groups."
Sophie Cheney, who is also a longtime Campbellville resident, said she doesn't believe much should be changed about the park and suggested the $650,000 to redevelop it would be better spent restoring the deteriorating roads at Jessie Ave and Glenda Jane Drive.
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Jack Wood said the park's baseball heritage needs to be preserved.
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Ward 3 Councillor Cindy Lunau plans to ask for an amendment "that would honour baseball and baseball use and the tradition but still provide some flexibility for the community" at the Town's next council meeting February 25
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Critical Essay by William H. Hansell
SOURCE: "Three Artists in Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem Gallery," in Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 18, No. 3, Fall, 1984, pp. 122-27.
In the following essay, Hansell analyzes the roles of the three artists in Tolson's Harlem Gallery.
The first and final chapters of Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem Gallery, "Alpha" and "Omega," serve many purposes, the most important of which is to introduce or recapitulate aesthetic principles exemplified and developed throughout the poem. My summary here of the crucial chapters is designed to serve as the introduction to a study of three characters, John Laugart, Hideho Heights, and Mister Starks, each of whom is an artist and contributes substantially to the dramatic embodiment of the aesthetic principles underlying the volume.
Beginning my study of three major characters with the discursive, ode-like chapters seems appropriate also because Tolson's poem opens with several chapters that focus on subjects, race and art in particular, which later become the subjects of dramatic exchanges among a number of characters. The three artists portrayed in the poem itself create the kinds of works which illustrate the new art announced in "Alpha": Laugart in painting; Starks in music, classical and popular; and Heights in poetry. There is, however, some overlapping. Mister Starks, for example, is also a poet, and his "Harlem Vignettes" is made up of short poems given in their entirety in Harlem Gallery; Starks sketches several characters and provides a self-portrait as well. But his greatest creations are musical compositions.
"Alpha," which opens with the optimistic announcement of a new art, contains, in Ronald Walcott's words, "a statement of the poet's intention to invigorate modern poetry with the Black Americans' idioms and sense of life." Fully aware that bourgeois attitudes and tastes—"the Great White World"—will be alarmed, the narrator remains confident a new age, "a people's dusk of dawn," is being born:
In Africa, in Asia, on the Day
of Barricades, alarm birds bedevil the Great White
a Buridan's ass—not Balaam's—between no oats
and hay.
Like the legendary ass that starved because of an inability to choose between "oats and hay," the Great White World is helpless in the confrontation with the forces bringing about political and aesthetic revolutions.
That the narrator has searched widely for an aesthetic which includes tragic and comic components is revealed in the short second stanza:
Sometimes a Roscius as tragedian,
sometimes a Kean as clown,
without Sir Henry's flap to shield my neck,
I travel, from oasis to oasis, man's Saharic up-and-
In reversing the typical roles of the great comic actor Roscius and of Edmund Kean, the great Shakespearean tragedian, Tolson complicates the role of the artist who must often draw upon comedy for serious ends. There is the implication, too, that traditional forms and labels must not restrict the new art forms. Or to put it another way, the narrator believes that the artist, although influenced by traditional genres, must adapt them to his own ends, creating new forms in the process.
The new art will absorb existing forms and cultural influences in the creation of a truly universal and eclectic aesthetic. From the image of himself as a nomad, wandering from "oasis to oasis," the narrator presents himself returning with "a full/rich Indies cargo." Nonetheless, the single doubt nagging at him, as a black man, is whether the search has been worth it:
"Black Boy, O Black Boy,
is the port worth the cruise?"
That is, he knows that the myth which alleges that Afro-Americans have no enduring cultural heritage has convinced many that they are inferior: "Sometimes the spirit wears away / in the dust bowl of abuse." He, however, is confident of his personal, universal, and racial identity: his "Iness … humanness and Negroness." Although conceding there are differences among races, Tolson affirms that humanity, like art, is universal.
In "Omega," complex and esoteric art forms, even if they require expounders, intermediaries between the work of art and most audiences, are emphatically defended. In fact, it seems almost the duty of those who understand to convey it to others:
Those in the upper drawer give a child
the open sesame to the unknown
What and How and Why;
that's that which curators, as Pelagians, try
to do[.]
The Curator is probably the volume's most important character, and he often serves as the narrator; but he is not an artist. "Curators, as Pelagians," would seem to emphasize the belief in the basic freedom of the will and perhaps, too, the natural goodness of men, both of which are implied in Pelagius's rejection of the doctrine of original sin and in his affirmation of the capacity for goodness in the unaided human will. Art, therefore, if carefully studied, can bring men to truth. Since the labor may be great and the truth painful, the narrator recommends suitably measured doses:
Sometimes a work of art is bitter crystalline
to be doled out
at intervals, between the laugh and flout
of an Admirable Doctor; but, if taken too much
at a time, it delivers the cocainizing punch
of a Jack Dempsey nonesuch.
The artist's sensibility and aesthetic standards, moreover, must not be compromised because of ignorance, illiteracy, or the stultified sensibilities of an audience habituated to certain art forms:
Should he
(to increase digestibility)
break up
the fat globules and vitamins and casein shreds?
More important to the artist than simplicity and popularity is the need to reflect the varied materials on which he may draw. The eclectic nature of art is likened to a river fed by many streams, a source of vital renewal in even the most sterile of circumstances to all who bathe in it:
Many mouths empty their waters
into the Godavari of Art—
a river that flows
across the Decan trap of the age
with its lava-scarred plateaux;
and, in the selfheal of the river,
pilgrims lave the bruises of the Rain of woes.
A "dream" of another character (Dr. Nkomo) declares the need to create a "dusky Everyman," someone, like Monet or Matisse, who can convey the mystery and beauty of Harlem and, in effect, be a true heir of the Harlem Renaissance. In any event, a new black art is taking shape and will profoundly influence America's destiny. Whatever else, there is more of vitality and optimism in Harlem than elsewhere:
In the black ghetto
the white heather
and the white almond grow,
but the hyacinth
an asphodel blow
in the white metropolis!
Tolson himself has interpreted the symbolism: "I say that the flowers representing decay and death are found in the white metropolis, but the flowers of hope grow in the black belt. I speak here of the masses of poor people. They are on the move. Most American writers are cynical. But even in the violence of a Richard Wright there is something that lifts you. There is no despair." Both in the poem and in the note, Tolson intends white to symbolize bourgeois values and attitudes; throughout the poem, parochialism, racism, and elitism, considered at great length, are rejected by each of the major characters.
The new art, finally, will triumph—and these are the final lines of Harlem Gallery—because it embodies the entire history of Afro-Americans:
this allegro of the Harlem Gallery
is not a chippy fire,
for here, in focus, are paintings that chronicle
a people's New World odyssey
from chattel to Esquire!
The three artists portrayed in Harlem Gallery are discussed in the approximate order in which they are introduced in the poem, because that order is climactic; that is, the final artist, Hideho Heights is presented last and developed more fully in the poem. Heights most clearly dramatizes that art is universal. His audience is largely the common man. But the Curator, in his seemingly random movement through Harlem, first encounters a painter.
John Laugart immediately impresses the Curator as an artist with the qualities of greatness, a neglected genius with unshakeable integrity, preferring poverty to popularity. His masterpiece, Black Bourgeoisie, enthrals and delights the Curator. Laugart, a "half-blind painter," has an almost regal air, but in a melodramatic outburst, he cries that he feels neglected and misunderstood, that "No man cares for [his] soul!"
The Curator, who is on a search for items to exhibit in the Harlem Gallery, after briefly glimpsing the painting, speculates grandiosely that Laugart's room might be the modern counterpart of Patmos, where St. John is supposed to have written the Apocalypse, thereby evoking associations with a profoundly symbolic religious work at the beginning of the Christian era. (Possibly the era whose demise is declared in "Alpha"?) In the Curator's eyes, Laugart's painting marks the beginning of a new aesthetic and combines the artistry of the greatest painters of our century. Equally important, Laugart has combined aesthetic excellence with social protest, something the Curator previously believed impossible, which is the reason that his astonishment at the masterpiece created by Laugart is likened to several moments in ancient and modern times, which were also marked by shock and delight at the moment of discovery, an experience both rending and curative:
colors detonating
fog signals on a railroad track,
lights and shadows rhythming
fog images in a negative pack:
this, somehow, a synthesis
of Daumier and Gropper and Picasso.
As a Californian, I thought Eureka;
but as Ulfilas to the dusky Philistines I said,
This is sketchy and impressionistic, but it is the most detailed description of the painting in Harlem Gallery. Subsequently, only effects are described.
The visual imagery of fog and shadow combine with the sound imagery, a piercing train whistle in a fog. And there is the rhythm of the colors dynamically playing against one another, overlapping and interweaving, to give the impression of blurring. There seem to be no hard edges, no simple or pure colors. Laugart's social intention, given the context of the painting, would seem to be quite clear. Middle-class blacks lack definition and identity. Behaving and thinking like middle-class whites, they have become a composite of both races, succeeding only in obliterating their true identity. Of course an important assumption is that all middle-class people have corrupt values and attitudes. Elsewhere in Harlem Gallery, the Curator and Dr. Nkomo, for example, repeatedly comment on the necessity of rejecting bourgeois values. Similarly, the art and artists celebrated in the poem, the work of Laugart, Starks, and Heights, arouse the masses, but stir fear and trembling in the middle-class characters.
The aesthetic intention, just as important, seems also self-evident. Masterpieces are eclectic; great artists combine traditional styles from disparate sources in the effort to forge an original style. In a sense, Laugart accomplished in paint what Tolson did in words. Tolson consciously adapted the styles of many great poets, most notably Harte Crane, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound; he obviously drew on a great variety of traditions and cultures; and he wanted to improve the human condition.
The Curator is convinced immediately that most viewers of Laugart's work will not understand it, yet will howl with outrage at what they suspect they see; Black Bourgeoisie "will wring from their babbitted souls a Jeremian cry!" Laugart, too, anticipates hysterical resentment, but confidently observes,
"A work of art
is an everlasting flower
in kind or unkind hands;
dried out,
it does not lose its form and color
in native or in alien lands."
For Laugart, the artist's dedication must be to excellence, even at the risk of failure: "'It matters not a tinker's dam / … how many rivers you cross / if you fail to cross the Rubicon!'"
Laugart and his painting are, in fact, vigorously rejected by "the Regents of the Harlem Gallery," which is to say everyone with middle-class values. For the Regents, Laugart is a "castaway talent." In a rather abstruse reflection on those ("the half-alive") who misunderstand and deride works like Black Bourgeoisie, the Curator stresses that successful irony often has a positive effect. That is, art can have a positive influence even when misinterpreted. Painting a fantastic picture of the ordeal of the Regents' attempting to understand the painting, the Curator pictures them in comic bafflement: They "confuse / the T-shape of the gibbet with the T-shape of the cross." They so completely misconstrue the painting that they see symbols of salvation instead of symbols of death. But again, the Curator reminds himself that great art may unconsciously penetrate the most insensitive psyches:
—a Jacob that wrestles Tribus and sunders
discovers, in the art of the issues
of Art, our prose, as well as our cons,
fused like silver nitrate used
to destroy dead tissues.
The pain of the Regents may be a sign that some of their moribund attitudes are giving way; perhaps they are even beginning to understand that great art and social criticism are compatible. After we are told of his lonely death, the most important of subsequent references to Laugart appear in a series of poems, Harlem Vignettes, included in "Upsilon" and composed by another Harlem artist. The world's neglect of Laugart is likened to its neglect of another great artist; its betrayal is likened to the selling of Christ.
Mister Starks, composer, pianist, conductor, and poet, is credited with a popular song, "Pot Belly Papa," which made a great deal of money; two major classical works, Black Orchid Suite and Rhapsody in Black and White; and the ten poems collected under the title Harlem Vignettes. These last have marked parallels to Tolson's A Gallery of Harlem Portraits, poems written by 1935, but not published until 1979. A dominant influence on Starks (and on Tolson's early work) is the Edgar Lee Masters of The Spoon River Anthology. The poems are character sketches, sometimes very brief, in free verse. Starks' style, in the Vignettes, on the other hand, reflects Tolson's mature style in its dense allusiveness and imagery.
In "Mister Starks: A Self-Portrait," the narrator initially disparages his own talents and behavior, feeling he has compromised his aesthetic principles for money, and he announces his intentions:
I etch, here and now, a few
of the everybodies and somebodies and nobodies
in Harlem's comédie larmoyante.
After quoting John Laugart on the immortality of art, Starks stresses that his career, if not a great success, was freely chosen. With a brief, harsh slant at those who have failed to appreciate his art, he adds,
Am I not a Negro, a Harlemite, an artist—
a trinity that stinks the ermine robes
of the class-conscious seraphs?
He tells also of a time in Europe when he was influenced by the works of jazz musicians and by great composers of classical music. But his final revelation is of absolute confidence in the greatness of his composition Black Orchid Suite, even though it never received public acclaim. We are dramatically informed about the creation of the Suite, the first creation in his "new" style. This discovery immediately caused profound changes in Starks and another major character, convincing them that they had to abandon all ideas of absolute racial or aesthetic distinctions. That is, they continue to believe that individuals, societies, and nations in every age contribute distinctive and valuable elements to art, but they now believe that those diverse components can be brought harmoniously together.
In the final part of "Upsilon," Starks tells of a night on which he played the piano more or less with the intention of ignoring a self-pitying and maudlin white man, a petty criminal, whom Starks, to himself, calls a "Derby," possibly because he and his counterparts wear them. Somewhat absentmindedly, then, Starks let his fingers wander into "a corny polka style / reminiscent of Kid Ory's trombone in Sweet Little Papa." After some bitter reflections on the inattentive audience and racism, Starks suddenly discovered something original in the music he had been playing:
As I explored the theme phrase,
a new rhythm and melody vistaed before me:
the tones feathered into chords
and leafed and interlaced
in fluxing chromatic figures.
With his love of music and its revelations about the human condition, Starks cannot but believe that, if such intricate and new harmonies are possible in music, they may also be possible in life. His thoughts turn to Doctor Obi Nkomo, a character who speculates elsewhere in Harlem Gallery at great length on the subjects of art and race. Starks remembers Nkomo's image of the ideal world as being like the necessary black and white keys of a piano, "blended in the majestic tempo di marcia of Man." Tolson might very well have intended an illusion to Langston Hughes's "Daybreak in Alabama," in which a similar metaphor of man in a harmonious society appears. Asked what he is playing, Starks explains,
Then I magicked an arpeggio of syncopated colors
(my left hand, like Fats', suggesting a bass fiddle)
and said with a flourish, "Rhapsody in Black and
He is not certain of his success, but, as he expresses it, every artist must risk everything in choosing between "Caesar or God." He is not overly concerned that his immediate audience does not understand his new work. Obviously embittered by the neglect of his masterpiece, and even by the monetary success of his popular works, Starks does not believe himself an utter failure because he remains confident of the greatness of his classical compositions.
Hideho Heights, the third artist portrayed in Harlem Gallery, is a poet; he enters with a satirical jibe, in "a voice like a / ferry horn in a river of fog," at the expense of the bourgeois tastes of the others:
"Hey, man, when you gonna close this dump?
etch highbrow stuff for the middlebrows who
don't give a damn and the lowbrows who ain't
Think you're a little high-yellow Jesus?"
Later, Heights is alluded to as "a crab louse / on the pubic region of Afroamerica." As if we needed to be told, we are informed that satire is one reason for his renown. After a brief glance at the art displayed in the Harlem Gallery, he observes, "'In the beginning was the Word … not the Brush!'"
Heights next reveals he's been listening to Louis Armstrong and been so inspired as to improvise a tribute: "'I'm just one step from heaven / with the blues a-percolating in my head.'" Immediately, he produces the manuscript dedicated to "old Satchmo." It is of the nature of jazz, we learn from Heights' poem, "to syncopate the heart and mind"; and he ranks Armstrong with the greatest musicians, singers, and folk heroes: King Oliver, Bessie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, Papa Handy, Leadbelly, and John Henry. A calculated interracial point is made, moreover, with the further comparison of Armstrong's importance to "Wyatt Earp's legend."
The narrative continues to be dominated by Heights in the next chapter, "Mu," in which everything and everyone in the nightclub is at fever pitch. Like many poems by Langston Hughes, these scenes are accompanied by jazz, blues, and booze. In fact, that the roots of jazz—therefore of all art—lies in man's sensual nature is nowhere more emphatically portrayed in Harlem Gallery than in these scenes. Still, it is a very unlikely atmosphere for a form of discussion which clearly parallels the Socratic dialogues. (There is some value, I believe, in reminding ourselves that Socrates also asserted that everything of importance should be discussed twice, once when drunk, again when sober.)
After a brief flirtation with a woman whose provocative dress and movements are highly erotic, Heights reveals to the Curator:
"She's a willow,"
"a willow by a cesspool."
Hideho mused aloud,
"Do I hear The Curator rattle Eliotic bones?"
With this allusion to Eliot, Heights begins to reveal his rejection of the belief that modern man is doomed because of the corruption of Christianity. But there is no reply from the Curator, whose attention turns to the jazz played in the Zulu Club:
Out of the Indigo Combo
flowed rich and complex polyrhythms.
Like surfacing bass,
exotic swells and softenings
of the veld vibrato
Heights describes the dancing which begins as "'the penis act in the Garden of Eden,'" and the Curator thinks of it as "a prismatic-hued python / in the throes of copulation." Further, the Curator sees in the dancing an epitome of jazz performers and styles:
In the ostinato
of stamping feet and clapping hands,
the Promethean bard of Lenox Avenue became a
lost loose-leaf
as memory vignetted
Rabelaisian I's of the Boogie-Woogie dynasty
in barrel houses, at rent parties,
on riverboats, at wakes:
The Toothpick, Funky Five, and Tippling Tom!
Ma Rainey, Countess Willie V., and Aunt Harriet!
Speckled Red, Skinny Head Pete, and Stormy
In complete agreement with the Curator, Heights extends the musical example of a rich and varied tradition into an argument that Gertrude Stein was wrong in saying "'The Negro suffers from nothingness.'" Heights' next observation seems at first glance to denounce jazz as nothing but escapism ("'Jazz is the marijuana of the Blacks'"), but Robert J. Huot argues correctly that Tolson almost certainly alludes to ancient rituals in which part of the initiation ceremony was a mind-expanding preparation for a visionary climax. In this sense, obviously, drugs, including alcohol, aren't escapist, but rather ceremonial agents. Jazz, then, for Heights, is important as the embodiment of a rich cultural heritage and as a form of vital communal ritual.
The Curator agrees with Heights and turns from the meaning of music for blacks to its meaning for whites: "'Jazz is the philosophers' egg of the Whites.'" I take this to be, in part, a humorous distortion of the frequently asked question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Whites who believe blacks have no history are confronted with the dilemma of explaining the African components in jazz.
The necessity of musical accompaniment for a wide range of activities—secular and religious—informs the third stanza from the last, while the Curator insists further that jazz is as natural a music for blacks as "Liszt in the court at Weimar." "Mu" closes on a muted note of anticlimax:
With a dissonance
from the Weird Sisters,
the jazz diablerie
boiled down and away
in the vacuum pan….
Calling up images of witches, boiling cauldrons, and demons to describe the atmosphere created by the jazz, Tolson satirically exaggerates the accusations of its harshest critics, who often condemn the inducement to sensual indulgence.
Rufino Laughlin, master-of-ceremonies in the Zulu Club, believes absolutely in the immortality of Heights and declares this to the audience, when introducing the poet (in "Mu"). A prostitute, "a tipsy Lena," also seeking the immortality of poetry, offers herself free and forever if he will promise to write about her. Heights sends her off giggling with the observation, "'Sister, you and I belong to the people.'" Meanwhile, the Curator has been much impressed by the intimate relationship between Heights and habitués of the Club: "My thoughts wandered and wondered / … the poet is no Crusoe in the Zulu Club…." When Heights reads (in "Xi"), the attention of the audience is religious, and they respond enthusiastically, very much in the way some black congregations enter into call-and-response exchanges with ministers. Heights' opening words are
"Only kings and fortunetellers,
poets and preachers,
are born to be."
The Curator underscores the priestly, even messianic, aura given off by Heights. In addition to the priestly function, the artist is said to have prophetic or mystical powers with which to "see and hear / when our own faculties fail." Heights' ballad, a source of intense delight for the audience, also owes much to the "tall-tale" tradition:
John Henry—he says to his Ma and Pa:
"Get a gallon of barleycorn.
I want to start right, like a he-man child,
the night that I am born!"
Also striking to the Curator in the performance is the mutual inspiration which occurs between poet and musicians, and the evidence that both draw on traditional European and folk forms:
The creative impulse in the Zulu Club
leaps from Hideho's lips to Frog Legs' fingers,
like the electric fire from the clouds
… that blued the gap between
Franklin's key and his Leyden jar.
This "poet's feast" the Curator calls a "counterpoint / [of] protest and pride." His attention focuses, next, on the relationship among diverse musical forms, and he alludes to one French writer's intense study of black music:
O spiritual, work song, ragtime, blues jazz—
consorts of
the march, quadrille, polka, and waltz!
Witness to a miracle
—I muse—
the birth of a blues,
the flesh
made André Gide's
musique nègrel.
Heights' recital ends with John Henry's rueful discovery that racism and its effects exist everywhere in America: "'I came to Lenox Avenue, / but I find up here a Bitchville, too!" An elaborate exchange of views on racism and on some personal problems follows. Heights is made almost desperate by what he interprets as defeatism, or at the very least as an unhealthy preoccupation with the problems of being black. His final comment, "'My people, / my people— / they know not what they do,'" obviously echoes Christ's outcry just before his death. Clearly, they have not understood Heights in the sense he intended, desiring, almost certainly, that John Henry's story be an inspirational model of endurance and personal integrity.
Heights is the subject of a markedly eulogistic poem-within-a-poem ("Upsilon"), one of a series of character sketches called the Harlem Vignettes and attributed to Mister Starks. Countering Plato's exclusion of poets from the ideal state, Starks asserts that the poet, in particular Heights, is absolutely essential to any state:
Plato's bias will not banish,
from his Republic,
the post laureate of Lenox Avenue….
Starks admiringly quotes Heights' rejection of the idea that artists are absolutely alienated from society's values and attitudes:
"A work of art is a two-way street,
not a dead end,
where an artist and a hipster meet."
Heights is praised for believing in dynamic and communal art forms, for his "tragic-comic" range, his humor and pride, and his belief that form and content are inseparable:
"The form and content in a picture or a song
should blend like the vowels in a dipthong."
Heights, who later decides he has heard enough of cynicism and despair, intends to write a poem that will have powerful social consequences:
"The Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation
Ye Muses!
As the People's Poet,
I shall Homerize a theme that will rock the Nation!
And every damned Un-American will know it!"
Drolly prodding Heights on, the Curator, possibly echoing W. H. Auden, cautions him to "'remember / a tribal anthem / is the yankee-doodle diddle of a tittle.' Heights, contemptuous of further cynicism, prepares to recite "The Sea-Turtle and the Shark," a ballad describing the way a sea turtle, when swallowed alive, can claw and tear at the shark's stomach until he makes
"his way to freedom,
beyond the vomiting dark,
beyond the stomach walls
of the shark."
Such triumphant defiance reminds at least one man of Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," and the use Prime Minister Churchill made of it in his effort to harden British determination at a low point in World War II. The poem he recites and the reference to McKay's "If We Must Die" are Heights' way of asserting his belief that poetry is vital to mankind in all times; Heights thereby refutes the Curator's assertion. The Curator observes that Heights had never before allowed others to share in the creation of a poem, never before "left the cellar door / of his art ajar." Heights, moreover, in an attempt to explain the process and product of creation, compares them to
"… a whore giving birth
to a pimp's son, Curator, on a filthy quilt.
(In travail a woman shows no sign of guilt.)"
He insists that all art is basically the product of "élan vital," the sensibility's response to uncertainty and torment:
"Maybe, yes, maybe,
an artist's travail is like
a woman's; and her baby is like
a poem, a picture, a symphony—
an issue of the élan vital in sweat and blood,
born on a brazen
sea and swaddled
on a raft of life and shaped like a question mark."
The emphasis in the description on pain and a natural process which must run the full course probably refers to the demand that the artist master essential technical skills before attempting to create. The emphasis on illegitimacy and squalor affirms that beauty can come from the basest seeming things. And perhaps the originality of all true masterpieces makes them "bastards" in the sense that they combine existing traditions into a new object.
Artists who do not endure entirely the creative ordeal are harshly attacked by Heights. Those artists who resort to "'midwives'" produce "'abortions.'" The lines "'the new-born sun-gods snatched / from cradles on the sly'" seem to castigate young poets who write in free verse. With at least some self-satire, he launches out at poets who read to jazz accompaniment:
"consider the abortions
of the howl-howl-with-the-combo quacks;
the little Eddie Jests and Shortfellows…."
For so short a passage, Tolson has loaded it with allusions, some fairly obvious and serious, some almost certainly tongue-in-cheek. Allen Ginsberg, echoically associated with this group, may be the most well-known Beat poet, and, elsewhere in Harlem Gallery, Beat poets are praised for originality, independence, and most importantly, for their defiance of conventional ideas about art. Langston Hughes is famous for his experiments with jazz accompaniment for public readings throughout his career of over forty years. Tolson had the highest regard for Hughes and for his work. Finally, Heights scolds famous poets who renounce their early work,
"who abandon the little
hybrid bastards of their youth
Tolson himself abandoned his early style very deliberately, on the urging of Allen Tate and under the influence of Harte Crane, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce. And even if we weren't told so in the opening lines of "Chi," we would understand that Heights deeply loves all legitimate art and would not attack what he considered valid experimentation or innovation. After all, he has defended Black Bourgeoisie, scathingly criticized by the Regents, although a transcendent experience for the Curator.
Each of the artists in Harlem Gallery dramatically embodies the principles introduced in "Alpha" and recapitulated in "Omega." Whatever evils they identify, each is fundamentally optimistic. Their works, for the most part, are innovative, eclectic, and often esoteric. The artists derive their materials and forms in part from the immediate environment, but they also acknowledge a wide diversity of influences on their work. These artists, therefore, like Tolson himself, created original art forms to explore and portray the black experience in both its particular and its universal significance. As Nathan A. Scott, Jr., has recently argued, Tolson, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, and some others "belong not just to a special ethnic tradition but to the integrally American achievement in the literature of the present time."
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