Aug 03 How slam ‘breaks the silence’ for marginalized voices By Corinne Segal For Janae Johnson, a Boston-based spoken word poet who won the Women of the World Poetry Slam this spring, poetry is a bold act of breaking the silence. Continue reading
Jul 22 Watch 4:42 Pulitzer winner wants his readers to question their limits By PBS News Hour When Gregory Pardlo found out he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Digest,” he thought there had been some mistake. Jeffrey Brown speaks to Pardlo -- the author of two collections but not previously well-known within the poetry community… Continue watching
Jul 16 Poets answer Pluto fly by with #PlutoHaiku By Corinne Segal As NASA's spacecraft / reached Pluto this week, poets / on Twitter received / a challenge: to write / new Pluto-inspired verse / in #PlutoHaiku. Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch 1:20 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo reads ‘Written by Himself’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch 4:57 Che Guevara’s son on Cuba’s coming identity crisis By PBS News Hour When Omar Perez was 25, he found out his father was the revolutionary Che Guevara. For Perez -- a poet, artist and musician -- the revelation didn’t much change his outlook on life, or on Cuba. Jeffrey Brown talks to… Continue watching
Jul 06 Watch 2:28 Teen poet on loss, growth and ‘the struggle’ of the physical being By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 25 How Marvin Gaye and Nikki Giovanni help my students discuss racial violence By Colin Pierce When I planned the lesson out the day before, I didn't intend it to end with everyone crying in the basement of a church. And yet there we were. Continue reading
Jun 15 Cuban writer and son of revolutionary Che Guevara reads his poem, ‘The Concept’ By artsdesk Omar Pérez is a Cuban poet, translator, essayist, editor, ordained Zen Buddhist monk and the son of revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. He graduated from the University of Havana in 1987 with a degree in English and then went on to… Continue reading
Jun 12 Watch Poet Juan Felipe Herrera reads ‘Five Directions to My House’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching