Oct 18 Watch Detroit’s InsideOut students and alumni perform their poetry Detroit's InsideOut student and alumni perform their poetry. Continue watching
Oct 14 Weekly Poem: Cathy Park Hong Reads ‘Ballad in A’ By Victoria Fleischer Ballad in A by Cathy Park Hong A Kansan plays cards, calls marshal a crawdad, that barb lands that rascal a slap; that Kansas jackass scats, camps back at caballada ranch. Hangs kack, ax, and camp hat. Kansan's nag mad… Continue reading
Oct 14 Weekly Poem: Cathy Park Hong Reads ‘Ballad in A’ By Victoria Fleischer Ballad in A by Cathy Park Hong A Kansan plays cards, calls marshal a crawdad, that barb lands that rascal a slap; that Kansas jackass scats, camps back at caballada ranch. Hangs kack, ax, and camp hat. Kansan's nag mad… Continue reading
Oct 07 Poet Lorna Goodison reads ‘To Make Various Sorts of Black’ By News Desk Painting by Lorna Goodison, from the private collection of Dan Kelly, photographed by Hugh Wright For a long time, poet Lorna Goodison thought her creative talents would lead to a profession in the visual arts. But "one day the painting… Continue reading
Oct 07 Poet Lorna Goodison reads ‘To Make Various Sorts of Black’ By Ellen Rolfes For a long time, poet Lorna Goodison thought her creative talents would lead to a profession in the visual arts. But "one day the painting stopped coming, and I was just writing all the time," Goodison said. Like a scorned… Continue reading
Sep 30 Poet Gregory Orr: Poetry Is ‘Concentrated Testimony’ of Being Human Poet Gregory Orr rhapsodizes on a theme he has explored for nearly a decade: the "beloved," the things we love. Of course, what we love can change over time, he says. "It can make you crazy by ... shifting from… Continue reading
Sep 30 Poet Gregory Orr: Poetry Is ‘Concentrated Testimony’ of Being Human By News Desk Poet Gregory Orr rhapsodizes on a theme he has explored for nearly a decade: the "beloved," the things we love. Of course, what we love can change over time, he says. "It can make you crazy by ... shifting from… Continue reading
Sep 26 On this day in 1888 T.S. Eliot began to count the silverware .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot was… Continue reading
Sep 25 Watch Death of Kofi Awoonor in Nairobi Attack Is ‘Great Loss’ for Ghana and Poetry Death of Kofi Awooner in Nairobi Attack Is 'Great Loss' for Ghana and Poetry… Continue watching
Sep 25 Death of Kofi Awoonor in Nairobi Attack Is ‘Great Loss’ for Ghana and Poetry By Tom LeGro Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanaian poet, diplomat and academic, was among the victims murdered in a terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi. Awoonor's nephew Kwame Dawes, another renowned poet, was traveling with his uncle to attend a literary festival… Continue reading