Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month is a special occasion that celebrates poets’ integral roles in our culture and that highlights that poetry […]
National Poetry Month Reading List
Category: poetry
Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award
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 […]
UIP Author Lorna Goodison Awarded 2018 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry
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. […]
RIP Michael S. Harper
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 […]
Of cats and bats, mostly cats
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 […]
Win a copy of Fe-Lines: French Cat Poems through the Ages
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 […]
Day of the cat
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 […]
Liberty, equality, and that other thing
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 […]
Daisy Turner’s words
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 […]
Q&A with Becoming Julia de Burgos author Vanessa Pérez Rosario
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: […]
New in paperback: poetry and opera
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 […]
“Denise Levertov” author on PBS
Watch Dana Greene on Denise Levertov on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene […]