What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry
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...more“I would say the primary role of speech in these poems is to attempt something. To try.”
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...moreFirst, Brandon Hicks mocks the electoral process in his illustrated narrative, “God Is Dead: Campaign Coverage.” Then, in the Saturday Essay, Kade Walker remembers her grandmother, a private woman of Jamaican descent who is too proud to tell her family she has cancer. Her secretiveness creates an additional layer of mystery around Walker’s memories of her. Next, […]
...moreAnn van Buren reviews Martín Espada’s Vivas to Those Who Have Failed today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreYesterday’s New York Times posed this question to poetry superstars Tracy K. Smith, Martin Espada, William Logan, Paul Muldoon, Sandra Beasley, Patrick Rosal, and our own David Biespiel. Whether by “educat[ing] the senses,” combatting irony, or “ritualiz[ing] human life,” suffice it to say, the answer is Yes.
...morePoet Rich Villar discusses his activism, his admiration for Pablo Neruda, the importance of vernacular, and why love poetry may be the most political poetry of all.
...moreThe Trouble Ball witnesses the darker parts of history and celebrates resistance to the forces that created those.
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