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Jake Skeets, 2024 University of Mississippi John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence, spoke about his latest poetry collection on Thacker Mountain
BY TUCKER REILLY, EDITOR IN CHEIF The St. Bonaventure University department of English hosted visiting poet Jake Skeets, a Navajo-born author and university instructor, in the Hall of Fame Room of the Reilly Center. At an hour-long event held Wednesday night, Skeets read a selection of poems taken from several of his collections, including the…
20 titles to guide you through National Poetry Month April is National Poetry Month. And, as we celebrate an art form which gives shape and language to our experience of the world, it's worth noting that many readers still struggle to find the door, the access point to poetry. With this in mind, accept these 20 titles — most of them quite recent — as a peace offering and a starting point. Not all will resonate with every reader; but there should be something here for each mood and manner of engaging. Poems of devotion Jericho Brown, "The New Testament" (2014) Following in the footst...