African American Poetry

Congratulations, Naomi Long Madgett

Terry Blackhawk | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Kresge Eminent Artist 2012, Poetry, Marilyn Nelson, Detroit Public Schools, African American Poetry, Cave Canem, Youth Poetry, InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Naomi Long Madgett, Toi Derricotte, Kresge Arts in Detroit, Lotus Press, Detroit, Detroit News
Terry Blackhawk

We at InsideOut Literary Arts gave a cheer at the news that Naomi Long Madgett was awarded the 2012 Kresge Eminent Artist Award. She continues to be a powerful, generous force for poetry in Detroit and around the country.

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White House Poetry Reading Leaked! Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, and Secret Rejection Letter

Anis Shivani | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Poetry at the White House, White House, African American Literature, Obama Inauguration, Billy Collins, African American Poetry, Poetry Readings, L, Obama Inaugural Poem, Poetry, White House Poetry Reading, Barack Obama, Books News
Anis Shivani

The White House poetry reading is on May 11. But PoetryLeaks got a hold of the goings-on before the big day!

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Literary Food Fight:

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Czeslaw Milosz, Chicano Literature, John Ashbery, African American Poetry, Mexican American Poetry, Gay and Lesbian Literature, American Poetry, Robert Hass, Books News
Anis Shivani

The question of influence is a tricky one in the literary realm, but surely, if there are undeniable progenitors of today's collective poetry output, these are the ones.

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The 17 Most Important Poetry Books Of Fall 2010

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Irish Poetry, Caribbean Literature, American Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska, Book Publishing, Seamus Heaney, Small Presses, Adonis, Experimental Poetry, African American Poetry, African American Literature, Paul Muldoon, Ezra Pound, Postmodern Literature, Modernist Poetry, Books News
Anis Shivani

There's much to be excited about, and these selections give a fair indication of the presses putting out the most important poetry of the day and the degree of vitality of various poetic styles.

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Martini Movies, Francois Truffaut, Variety Magazine, On the Beach, Julius Rosenberg, Reagan, James Anderson, Al-Queda, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Los Ultimos Cinco, Enrico Fermi, Charles Bronson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stepin Fetchit, The Day the World Ended, Wille Zur Macht, Manhattan Project, Emperor Hirohito, Mokusatsu, Taliban, Carl Sagan, Mulholland Highway, Cosmos, William Phipps, Rod Serling, Pearl Harbor, Suzuki Kantaro, Harry Truman, Lord of the Flies, Genesis, Hiroshima, Arch Oboler, Leo Szilard, Klaus Fuchs, Potsdam Decleration, Douglass Macarthur, Nagasaki, Nietzsche, H.G. Welles, The Day After, Stalin, Orson Welles, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Lampkin, Uranium Fission, Fahrenhei 451, Nuclear Holocaust, Lavrentii Beria, Fat Man, Twilight Zone, William Golding, Red Army, Will Smith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mao Tse-Tung, North Korea, African-American Poetry, 5ive, Schopenhauer, Manchuria, Gyokuon-Hoso, Semipalatinsk, Five, The Late Show, Healthy Living News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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