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New York Times bestselling author Tayari Jones will participate in a virtual discussion on Feb. 23 as part of the NEA Big Read: Central Florida.

This Week in Uses of American Poetry in Public Last month, we wrote about Amanda Gorman’s poetry performance at the presidential inauguration. This month, earnest uses of American poetry in public continued to amaze. On Sunday, February 7th, a month after the insurrection at the capitol and two days before the beginning of the impeachment trial, some of America watched the Superbowl. The 2021 Superbowl began with a blessing of sorts in the form of Amanda Gorman performing, via video, another original poem, “The Chorus of the Captains.” We would have written this whole post about Gorman�...

Tags » Faculty Showcase The Faculty Showcase featuring Jericho Brown, Emory professor and Pulitzer Prize winner, along with new Emory faculty, will be held virtually on Monday, Feb. 22, at 4 p.m. Interim Provost Jan Love will provide opening remarks and then nine new faculty members will respond to poems that Brown has chosen to represent Emory’s nine schools and colleges.  All members of the Emory community and general public are welcome. Learn more about the event and register. To help recently arrived Emory faculty get to know the community and one another in the time of COVID-19 requi...

February 8, 2021 I’ve been thinking a lot, lately, about the example of Ciaran Carson, the Irish poet born in 1948, who wrote (like the rest of his generation from the North) in the immediate shadows of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, and who died in October 2019. I got to know Ciaran just a bit in 2013 when I was on a Fulbright to the Seamus Heaney Centre, which Ciaran had come to direct after many years as a freelance journalist, prose writer, translator, and poet. He was wry and dry-humored and always impeccably dressed. (Word is he had an attic absolutely packed with three-piece suit...

Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain enlist 90 writers to tell 400 years of African-American history The co-editors of ‘Four Hundred Souls’ assembled a chorus of writers, each one taking on a five-year period By Jonathan Leal Globe Correspondent,Updated February 8, 2021, 12:09 p.m. Email to a Friend “This is our story. We must not flinch.” So writes journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in her contribution to The book’s scope is vast. It unites 90 writers from across cultural and intellectual sectors to evoke the longevity of Black American struggle over four centuries. The r...