UPDATE: ABSURDITY (A short Nobel Prize in Literature play*) Swedish Academy Guy 1: Ngugi should get it. SA Guy 2: Ko Un. Very good poe...

Sonia Sanchez (courtesy of AALBC.com) Earlier this semester, as part of my undergraduate literature class on The Black Arts Movement ,...

Nikki Giovanni (www.afropoets.net) Ah, Nikki Giovanni (1943-). When I was in junior high and starting high school she was my favorite...

Ana Cristina César (from http://tomzine24.wordpress.com) Several years ago I came across the poetry of Ana Cristina César (1952-1983),...

Denise Levertov Do students read Denise Levertov (1923-1997) in high school or college these days? Do high school teachers or college ...

Today's poem is by a poet I've never featured before, but this poem, and this poet's work, have intrigued me, not least becau...

I was trying to figure out how to introduce the following poem, by Lorna Dee Cervantes (1954-), which I thought of when I read the hedgi...

In the wake of today's announcement of this year's Pulitzer Prizes , which in the Arts and Letters categories went to: Tracy K...

Ann Lauterbach One of the poets I discovered while idly browsing one day in a bookstore in New York City was Ann Lauterbach (1942-).  T...

Mohja Kahf (Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA) A colleague, John B. , mentioned today that I was posting much more, and it's tr...

Harryette Mullen (from Reed College's website) Since I'm going to be very busy the rest of this week (cf. the next post), I nee...

Marianne Moore and Langston Hughes (www.everseradio.com) I've been trying to avoid posting many of the obvious, well-known poems on...

Have I ever posted a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), a poet I mention in the post prior to this one, and one of the best and most o...

I've never blogged a poem by Tess Gallagher (1943-), a poet whose work I know of but have not much read, but when I came across the ...

March 1, 2012 marks the beginning of Women's History Month , and just as I believe on a daily basis if we are talking about and explori...

If the winter quarter is akin to a mine, I am deep down in it, so very deep  that I have only a memory of what the surface air, the light...

V-J Day in Times Square © Alfred Eisenstaedt (Life, 1945) Marissa Gaeta (left) kisses fellow US naval officer Citlalic Snell ...

Lower Manhattan, from Hoboken, or The Calm before the Storm Irene , if I recall correctly from my long-ago high school Greek classes, m...