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2026 Italian American Heritage Month Reading List
Tag: poetry
2026 Polish American Heritage Month Reading List
Happy Polish American Heritage Month! Join us in celebrating the month once again with a reading list of books and journal articles from Polish American Studies, The Polish Review, and Journal of American […]
National Poetry/Literature Month Reading List
Please enjoy this curated reading list that highlights some of our best and brightest poetry and literary published works. The Keloids We Heal: Trauma, Spirituality, and Black Modernity in Literature […]
Q&A with Dana Greene, author of JANE KENYON
Dana Greene, author of Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I like Kenyon’s poetry. […]
National Poetry Month Reading List
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
Huffington Post and The Rumpus examine Denise Levertov
Nearly sixteen years past her death, poet Denise Levertov’s work and life continue to fascinate. Dana Greene’s biography of the poet, Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life has gained new acclaim with […]
Poetry Foundation features Colleen McElroy
Colleen McElroy’s new poetry collection Sleeping with the Moon is featured at PoetryFoundation.org. “She will happily give the MFAs a headache with her unfashionably clear statements and heartbroken admissions and the bold […]