'A true American cultural art form': Cowboy poet reflects on life in the West
GOLDEN • Terry Nash approaches the stage, a yellow bandana fastened around his neck, cowboy hat secured on his head and ...
19 Black Poets Whose Work Will Move and Inspire You
Langston Hughes isn’t just one of the most well-known Black poets of the early 20th century—he’s one of the most celebrated ...
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Phillis Wheatley: The First African-American Poet Knew Ancient Greek
Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...
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San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García says poetry is a 'thriving thing'
San Diego has named Paola Capó-García as its third Poet Laureate since the program began in 2020. A former journalist and ...
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Hearing from Poetry's Audience
I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural isolation of American poetry. Although I did not set out to provoke controversy, I knew my criticism ...
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10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.
His poetry, often simple yet profoundly evocative, captures the essence of the African American experience and, by extension, ...
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‘There’s a majesty to grief’: Poet and UMass professor Peter Gizzi wins prestigious 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the ...
When Poets Face Death
Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January 1939, the month of his death at age 73. In this apocalyptic depiction of ...
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Verse Like Water hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo
The visiting poet program of Central Lakes College presents Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo on Feb. 12 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. A poetry reading is ...