Poetry by Yusef Komunyakaa: “Did I hear someone say / 'Lord, have mercy on me' / among shadows of green?”
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Yusef Komunyakaa ... Yusef Komunyakaa has said that the gift of the poet is to see behind things. In seventeen acclaimed collections he has done just that,...
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Shezad Dawood's exhibition Night in the Garden of Love cultivates a zone where imagination flourishes, where images collide with the tactile to...
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Kevin Young's anthology of African American poetry, from Phillis Wheatley to hip hop.
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The poet suggests his art's highest calling isn't truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination.
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I've read Neruda, Walcott, Brooks, Lorca and Hayden multiple times — everything they have written. Over and over, and yet I continue to...
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In many ways, this compilation of uncollected poems and fragments that form The Lost Etheridge deepens our understanding of this poet and shows...
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A series of creative reflections on why Yusef Komunyakaa remains one of our greatest living writers and what it means to be a Black Jazz...
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In Taboo it's a stair-step-shaped tercet. Love in the Time of War dwells on and in the sonnet. Warhorses and The Emperor of Water Clocks favor a...
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A poem by Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung—"I know patterns of lockdown & migration..."
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