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A 'poetry surge' isn't new, but a 'renaissance' could be coming. Joy Harjo, who was recently appointed to her third yearlong term as Poet Laureate of the United States, ...
Feminist poetry is flourishing -- particularly for women of color. Decades after female poets of the ‘60s and ‘70s gained attention and acclaim, feminist poetry is having a moment again ...
Michael Robbins is the author of the poetry collections “Alien vs. Predator” and “The Second Sex.” “English Renaissance Poetry” Edited by John Williams, NYRB Classics, 416 pages, $19.95 ...
Lewis noted that during the pandemic, “poetry books have been flying off the shelf this year.” Now more than ever, youth are using poetry to make sense of the world around them, just as Young advised.
The Renaissance represents a period in which poets specialized in either the heart (say, by Philip Sidney), the body (William Shakespeare) or, in the case of this month's poet, George Herbert ...
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But in carrying out my research on Renaissance literature and gender, I’ve been struck by how many of that period’s love poems were not for lovers. These sonnets, ...
January 2 -- Paul McCartney has been writing verse his whole life — but for the first time, he's writing it for a book rather than an LP. The former Beatle, who's in the midst of a mini ...
Mark A. Sanders, an African-American folk roots and Harlem Renaissance poetry says, "The sheer volume of Hughes's writings, his iconic classic attitude towards black middle-class representation.