16 Apr Photos I’ve been hoarding from AWP 2009 here in Chicago.
Photos I’ve been hoarding from AWP 2009 here in Chicago.
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Poetry
16 Apr One of the times I can easily be accused of being a poet…
One of the times I can easily be accused of being a poet groupie. Not only did I gush in front of Haki Madhubuti, but when Lucille Clifton came around the corner and the two of them began to talk in front of my table,...
06 May POETRY Animated: "Incision" by Jillian Weise
Last year the Poetry Foundation introduced its second season of POETRY EVERYWHERE which featured 22 animated films created by student filmmakers at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Film students created animated interpretations of today's contemporary poets including Martin Espada, Cornelius Eady, and Jane Hirshfield....
05 May Fast Geek Press Releases "Further Down Rd." by Chicago Poet John Franklin Dandridge
Small book and cassette tape label, Fast Geek Press would like to announce the release of John Franklin Dandridge’s new collection of poems Further Down Rd, an examination of an artist’s relationships, rivalries and exaggerated perception of the future painted on the geographical canvas of Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood. John Franklin Dandridge inserts his...
13 Feb Mercy :: Poet Lucille Clifton Passes This Day
the tale the shepherds tell the sheep ...
09 Feb Coming Ashore: Langston Hughes' "The Big Sea"
I began reading The Big Sea by Langston Hughes somewhere around my late high school years, or early college endeavors when I was still an infant of a poet. Langston was one of the first poets I'd read, one of the first books of poetry I'd...
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