Poets Keep on Publishing Books HARMONIUM — Wallace Stevens — Knopf ($2.00) matches its odd, bright cover. The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter ...
VIDEO - A University of Texas at Arlington graduate student recently found a piece of American history that offers more insight on U.S. slavery. Julie McCown, a doctoral student, discovered one of the ...
At her inauguration as the city's poet laureate, Genny Lim recites from her poem, "I am American." "I am American. We live, love, work, sleep and breathe In this Babylon of 48 hills..." she begins. As ...
Joy Harjo, member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, said her appointment as poet laureate is an important recognition of Native American culture.Shawn Miller, Library of Congress Monday is World's ...
Walt Whitman begins one of the most famous passages in American writing—some might say one of the most American passages—with his name: Walt Whitman am I, a Kosmos, of mighty Manhattan the son, ...