Profile: "For Mayakovsky, 'It was a revolution. It was a poem. The poems and the revolution somehow came together in my head.'"
(Jacobin)
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How War Changed Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky was a great poet of the October Revolution. Yet at the start of World War I, the young fut...
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Announcement: "Mayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture today announced that Ghanaian American poet, editor, and educator Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah will serve as Boston’s next Poet Laureate."
(City of Boston)
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Mayor Wu Announces Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah as Boston’s Next Poet Laureate
Photo by Carlie Febo
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Interview: "Whatever I say in this moment, if somebody comes back to look at it a hundred years from now, they will at least know that this Black man was standing here saying something in the world."
(PBS RI)
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Meet Kwame Dawes, Brown University professor and new poet laureate of Jamaica - TPR: The Public's...
Kwame Dawes is a poet, actor and musician whose work is shaped by a journey that started in Ghana, where he ...
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Essay: "A Book of Rhymes is a fundamental part of Charlotte Brontë's development as a poet, even if it must be considered juvenilia."
(Lit Hub)
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On publishing Charlotte Brontë’s miniature book of poems for the first time.
Portrait of Charlotte Brontë by John Hunter Thompson © The Brontë Society As Patti Smith writes in her introd...
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Report: "Visual poetry was uniquely poised to transcend languages and nationalities, becoming an international movement through the use of symbols, signs, codes, and other non-alphabetic elements."
(Fine Books and Collections)
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Small Press Experimental Poetry Focus at New Grolier Exhibition
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club will examine the verbal and visual qualities of experimental poetry presented b...
www.finebooksmagazine.com
Essay: "What the opening circle offered and continues to offer Cave Canem fellows is the space to be fully, truly themselves."
(LA Times)
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How Black poets built the 'centrifugal force' in modern American literature
Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem ha...
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Essay: "When tracing my literary ancestry, I come from that chunk of charcoal, from that strain of self-reliance and persistence from the middle passage till now."
(Lit Hub)
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The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival
“By a poem’s held beauty, our held terrors become bearable.” –Jane Hirshfield * “Art is where what we ...
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Announcement: "Poet Yusef Komunyakaa is to receive an Anisfeld-Wolf Award for lifetime achievement. Komunyakaa, 77, is known for such collections as “Neon Vernacular” and for exploring race, music and his Vietnam War experiences."
(AP)
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Poet Yusef Komunyakaa to receive honorary Anisfeld-Wolf Award
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa is to receive an Anisfeld-Wolf Award for lifetime achievement. The 77-year-old poet is known f...
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Essay: "Whatever the controversies about the identity of the epics’ poet (or poets)…there has never been disagreement, either ancient or modern, about the importance of the two Homeric epics."
(Lit Hub)
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On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s Odyssey
In some ways, the Odyssey needs no introduction: it is everywhere around us. Over the nearly thirty centuries sinc...
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Interview: "Along the way, she builds an illuminating picture of queer poetics and draws out threads that connect writers across time and place. 'It’s a book about our elders and our youth.'"
(Harvard Magazine)
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Five Questions with Professor Stephanie Burt | Harvard Magazine
The Harvard poet and critic on LGBTQ+ literary life and her new book
www.harvardmagazine.com
For National Poetry Month this year, Poetry Daily decided to turn the spotlight onto readers of poetry: who we know are especially important, who, through the power of their attention, collaborate in the making of a poem’s meaning and worth. Which poem, we asked all of you—in our current archive of more than two thousand poems featured on the site since it moved to George Mason University in 2018—made you think, surprised you, moved you, or changed your world just a little? The resulting deep dives and bright finds, which we will feature in our Readers Write Back series across four Mondays and a Wednesday (April 30, the last day of Poetry Month) give some great recommendations on which poems to check out next, and reveal a wide cross-section of poetry in the contemporary mix. It showed us just how much we could learn from our readers, as well as how poems become an intimate part of lives, have far reaching and unpredictable effects on their readers and, at the least, offer a few minutes of thoughtful, serious reflection in each day.
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