Highwayman art pioneer Alfred Hair inspired generation of artists before tragic death
Highwaymen artist Alfred Hair overcame race in the 1960s to inspire an art movement that stalled when he was shot and killed ...
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When poetry heralds a new presidential era
All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...
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Poet Amanda Gorman pens tribute to crews battling the Los Angeles wildfires
Amna Nawaz spoke with Gorman about how the poem came to be and her new children’s book, “Girls on the Rise.” And before we go, we want to take some time for reflections about how people are ...
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How the presidential inauguration became poetry's biggest stage
There have only been six in the history of the United States, starting in 1961 with Robert Frost reciting his poem from memory at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. The latest was Amanda Gorman ...
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The Desperate Housewife Whose Face Launched a Thousand Ships
By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...
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The Alley's world premiere of 'December; a love years in the making' celebrates the poetry of romance
The play follows them over the years of several years and three encounters, each accompanied by a great deal of poetry – which makes it appropriate that the director’s name is Lorca (Marcela ...
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Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference
Take these lines from the middle of “In the Middle of My Life,” a poem in Jennifer Chang’s recent collection “An Authentic Life”: She quotes a little more from James Longenbach’s book ...