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1. For the People, By the Poet: The Year of the Black Sheep

   ... innovative methods, and this column aims to highlight some of the poets working "on the ground" here in Arizona.  In ... myself to Amiri Baraka, but this incident shows how American history declares war on Black artists unafraid to expose America’s blind spot ...

   sgzemski - 02/13/2019 - 2:58pm

2. Prize Winner Spotlight: Lucille Clifton

   ... Our audiovisual archive,  Voca , currently holds the work of 45 Pulitzer Prize Winners, 40 National Book Award Winners, 28 Poet Laureates ... to truth-telling in the face of silence,” and holding history in a way that is “embodied, and autonomous, alert to its own ...

   leeladenver - 10/22/2022 - 1:48pm

3. Reflections on the New Orleans Poetry Festival 2019

   ... or sci-fi conventions on their calendars a year ahead of time, I plan on going to NOLA in April. My first time was also the first ... by her own questioning of white privilege and teaching history and racial justice to predominantly white junior high students in ...

   sgzemski - 02/23/2021 - 10:49am

4. Centering Poetry Through COVID-19

   ... Publicity & Publications Specialist   One of the jokes I keep making in recent months (though I'm certainly not alone) ... together with a sameness that seems unique to this time in history. Each day feels long, and each week feels short. Entire months pass ...

   sgzemski - 10/09/2020 - 10:15am

5. Speedway & Swan Episode 45: Ruth Ellen Kocher

   ... a letter to the future, a call to action and a reminder of the work to be done. With musical selections from Brian Eno, D’Angelo, ... r . erica doyle | Excerpts from “The Body of History,” Letters to the Future Black Women Radical Writing , Kore Press, ...

   sgzemski - 07/26/2022 - 9:48am

6. Identity, Praxis, and kari edwards' Trans Poetics

   ... Poetry for the first time one year ago. On the eve of a new Lammy Awards this year, we sat down to have a conversation with U of A ... very much. Joy published her first book  Alternatives to History  about a year before  succubus in my pocket  was completed, so ...

   sgzemski - 05/02/2017 - 12:10pm

7. "Writing Was The Only Thing That Made Me Whole": Art for Justice Writer Randall Horton Visits Students in Juvenile Detention

   ...   In his poetry collection the lingua franca of ninth street , Randall Horton writes a series of poems entitled “Notes ... with you,” he said. And he offered students parts of his history: telling them he got involved in things he shouldn’t have been doing, ...

   dgoblirsch - 02/11/2019 - 11:27am

8. An Interview with Jennifer Calkins

   ... ranging from  The Fanzine  to  The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  and venues in between.   ... the issue of California in my own experience and family history using prose. But prose could not access what I was trying to uncover. I ...

   sgzemski - 04/24/2021 - 10:24am

9. Reading Zemborain and Alcalá

   ... up; it feels significant to have expectations blown out of the water. Lila Zemborain’s  Mauve Sea-Orchids  is ... with giants of political, poetic, and philosophical history (Rumi, Levi-Satrauss, Derrida, Garcia Lorca, Langston Hughes…). ... as part of the Poetry Center's Fall 2009 sequence of themed readings, "Oh Earth, Wait for Me: Conversations about Art and Ecology." Listen ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 07/19/2016 - 2:49pm

10. "Not a Handful, but a Land Full”: Poetry Off the Page in the Netherlands

    ... How often do you stumble across poetry in the course of your day, and how are those poems presented? Are they spoken or written? Are ... and permanent installations.   The history of street poetry in the Netherlands goes back to the Middle Ages. One ...

    sgzemski - 03/06/2018 - 2:42pm

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