Tag 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

October 8, 2013

Huffington Post and The Rumpus examine Denise Levertov

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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 reviews on two prominent websites. Carl McColman writes on The … Continue reading →

April 21, 2008

Poetry Foundation features Colleen McElroy

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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 planting, in almost every poem, of the moon, which she … Continue reading →

April 15, 2008

Book Sense recommends Lorna Goodison

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Lorna Goodison appears in Book Sense’s April picks list for her new book From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Amistad/Harper Collins). The University of Illinois Press previously published three collections of Goodison’s poetry: To Us, All Flowers … Continue reading →