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Category Archives: poetry
Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award
in american history, art, awards, dance, gender studies, music, open access, poetry, women
Tagged American music, author awards, award winners, awards, dance, drama, Elocutionists, gender studies, music, open access, opera, poetry, women, women in music
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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
UIP Author Lorna Goodison Awarded 2018 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry
in awards, poetry, Uncategorized
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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
RIP Michael S. Harper
in American literature, poetry
Tagged African American literature, African American poets, Dear John Dear Coltrane, 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
Of cats and bats, mostly cats
in animal ethics, bookstores, photography, poetry
Tagged Cats, contests, Fe-lines, Norman Shapiro, poetry
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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
Win a copy of Fe-Lines: French Cat Poems through the Ages
in animal ethics, bookstores, photography, poetry, publishing
Tagged contests, Fe-lines
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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
Day of the cat
in poetry
Tagged Cats, Fe-lines, musical, Norman Shapiro, poem, poetry, translation
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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
Liberty, equality, and that other thing
in poetry
Tagged Bastille Day, Fe-lines, Norman Shapiro, poetry, Tristan Klingsor
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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
Daisy Turner’s words
in american history, biography, black studies, folklore, poetry, southern history, women's history
Tagged Civil War, Daisy Turner, Jane C. Beck, slavery
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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
Q&A with Becoming Julia de Burgos author Vanessa Pérez Rosario
in author commentary, biography, interviews, latino studies, literary studies, poetry, women's history
Tagged Julia de Burgos, poetry, Puerto Rico, Vanessa Perez 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
New in paperback: poetry and opera
in American literature, biography, black studies, feminist studies, literary studies, music, poetry, religion, theatre, women's history
Tagged Dana Greene, Denise Levertov, new in paperback
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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