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Weekly Poem: 'bound isaac'

By Tom LeGro

D.A. Powell is the author of "Chronic" (Graywolf Press), which won the 2010 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, is given annually by Claremont Graduate University to honor work by a mid-career poet.

Weekly Poem: 'scenes from the trip we didn't take to the antarctic'

By Tom LeGro

Weekly Poem: 'Hole'

By Tom LeGro

"Hole" is from Naomi Ayala's "This Side of Early" (Curbstone Press, 2008). Her first collection, "Wild Animals on the Moon," was published in 1997, and a third is forthcoming. She lives in Washington, D.C., and works as an education consultant,…

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A roundup of arts headlines.

Poet Lucille Clifton Dies at Age 73

Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Saturday after a long fight with cancer. She was 73.

Weekly Poem: 'Those Winter Sundays'

By Tom LeGro

Robert Hayden was the first black poet to be chosen as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress.

Friday on the NewsHour: 'A Rift in the Land'

By Tom LeGro

Michele Voltaire Marcelin, an artist, poet, spoken word performer and teacher, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Since the earthquake struck that country last month, she has been struggling to make sense of the destruction.

Weekly Poem: 'Centuries of Ashes'

By Tom LeGro

Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Weekly Poem: 'Ports of Sorrow'

By Tom LeGro

Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Weekly Poem: 'Our Valley'

By Tom LeGro

Philip Levine is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently "News of the World" (2009). The poem above, "Our Valley," originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Poetry.