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Essay: "If I were to pick only one poet from Gaza to be translated and published in the English-speaking world, this is who it would be. Nasser Rabah is my favorite living poet in Palestine."
(Lit Hub)
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Mosab Abu Toha on the Poetry of Nasser Rabah

In 2020, I had the idea of starting a literary magazine featuring writers from the Gaza Strip with the goal of...

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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."
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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."
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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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