Parker presents an archive of black everydayness; a catalog of contemporary folk heroes. Her poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration. She connects themes of loneliness, displacement, grief ...
April is National Poetry Month, so it seemed the perfect time to read poetry, which is not my usual genre. “The Lost Spells” by Robert Macfarlane seemed a good place to start with its small size and ...
INTO THE MYSTIC Rumi’s Caravan evolved from a spoken-word group assembled some 30 years ago in Sebastopol. (Photo courtesy of Rumi’s Caravan) Born in Persia in 1207 C.E., Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi ...
In the #PulseStudentPoetry Prize an 8-line poem could win you a Lenovo ThinkPad... NOTE: The winning poem/poet emerges after a totalling of number of Likes, Shares, Tweets, Retweets and Comments ...
Mallika Bhaumik’s third collection of poems, When Times is a Magic Jar, has memory and a lost past as major motifs in her evocative verses. For she is able to make time melt in the palm, shrink it to ...
“E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962,” edited by George James Firmage (Liveright Classics/W.W. Norton, 1,136 pages, $50) Consider the typical high school literature anthology from, say, a couple ...
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