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April is the most poetic month, and we're celebrating by asking poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Yanyi, and Franny Choi to talk about what inspires them to write, and how poetry helps express identity.
Finish story here; 12 Must-Read Jean Toomer Poems That Define His Legacy.
For National Poetry Month (April 2023): We asked 3 poets for poems on the theme of Identity, and invited 3 comic artists to turn the poems into an illustrated comic.
Poems On Gender And Identity Through 100 pages of 'Poetry as Evidence', Outlook presents a selection of poems and verses that have moved us, and we feel these serve as evidence of our bleak times ...
Iman Maani Akwesasne artist explores native identity in his prints and poems. Photo by Celia Clarke . Jacobs has created art since the 70s, but has worked as an ironworker, ...
A too-short poem can ruin this effect, the effect of out-of-context-ness. When there is poem-out-of-view, you feel lucky, as if you might have found the bit that matters only to you.
A Windsor High School junior will take his demanding stage presence to a national audience, performing poetry that speaks to his identity as a person of color. “I am the Smoke King. I am Black,” ...