Category Archives: poetry

July 15, 2020

Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award

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Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s groups. Women, in fact, dominated the art, and their purveyance … Continue reading →

March 7, 2018

UIP Author Lorna Goodison Awarded 2018 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry

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We’re pleased to announce that Lorna Goodison, the author of Controlling the Silver, Turn Thanks, and To Us All Flowers Are Roses, has been awarded the 2018 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry. She will be honored along with her fellow recipients in … Continue reading →

May 16, 2016

RIP Michael S. Harper

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Michael S. Harper had a claim on the title of poet-historian, for he drew on the vast histories of African Americans as well as the United States to create works celebrated for their scope and jazz-influenced rhythms. “My poems are … Continue reading →

November 18, 2015

Of cats and bats, mostly cats

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It is seldom mentioned that cats are one of the great lawyers of the animal kingdom. Say “no” to a cat and it will look at you with an expression that answers: “Please define ‘no.’” And so on. I don’t think … Continue reading →

November 9, 2015

Win a copy of Fe-Lines: French Cat Poems through the Ages

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One of the wonderful things about independent bookstores is the opportunity for discovery. Is there a better feeling than walking among rows of texts and spying that one spine that calls out to be read? Whatever might pique interest—from an evocative … Continue reading →

October 7, 2015

Day of the cat

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In 1982, an alliance of pop culture titans came together on the Broadway stage. Andrew Lloyd Webber, a man who helped turn Jesus into a rock star and somehow got a musical on roller skates financed, teamed with Cameron Mackintosh, the … Continue reading →

July 14, 2015

Liberty, equality, and that other thing

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Everyone is a little French on Bastille Day. Which is ironic, as during the French Revolution, French was one of the last things you wanted to be. You know who could not give a care about revolutionary politics? Cats. But you … Continue reading →

July 6, 2015

Daisy Turner’s words

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Daisy Turner was a woman of many words. The storyteller and poet was a living repository of history. She related the stories of her own family, from the abduction of her ancestors in West Africa to her own upbringing in … Continue reading →

February 26, 2015

Q&A with Becoming Julia de Burgos author Vanessa Pérez Rosario

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Vanessa Pérez Rosario is an associate professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at City University of New York, Brooklyn College, and the editor of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement. She recently answered some questions about her … Continue reading →

December 30, 2014

New in paperback: poetry and opera

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Two UIP titles are now available in paperback editions. Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life Called by Kenneth Rexroth “the most subtly skillful poet of her generation,” British-born Denise Levertov authored twenty-four volumes of poetry, four books of essays, and several … Continue reading →