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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An English professor and folklorist at a historically Black private university in New Orleans will become Louisiana’s poet laureate on Saturday.
An English professor and folklorist at a historically Black private university in New Orleans will become Louisiana’s poet laureate on Saturday.
Thank you, poetry. I’m writing this last blog post while looking out the window at my dad’s summer garden, thinking about all the animals and insects and leafy things making things work outside. I’m thinking, too, about all the people who write, read, and perform poems, and how they are everywhere in the world, feeding and tilling and fertilizing and germinating and creating harvest with their words. I hope these three issues of Poetry have done one or all of those things for you, and I look forward to seeing the work of all other editors, guest and otherwise.
Jun. 13—Prize-winning African-American poets Jericho Brown and Michael Kleber-Diggs will read separately this week from their widely-praised work. Brown, the first Black, gay poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, will be at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist, 511 Groveland Ave., Mpls., at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 19, in a hybrid event offering in-person and virtual attendance. The location and date of ...
The official start of summer is just around the corner and few destinations rival getting lost in a great book.