Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool,” was recorded on May 3, 1983, as part of the Academy of American Poets reading series, held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. It first appeared in print in the September 1959 issue of Poetry magazine. You can see the poem and hear Gwendolyn...
if you will) to the incredible work Alex Dimitrov and the rest of the team at the The Academy of American Poets are doing. I mean it’s astonishing how they are able to get masterpieces of such stature out to the masses on an almost daily basis. But, some poems, though formidable...
The first Oscar for Denzel Washington came for his heroic turn in Glory, a drama about a Black regiment that fought in the American Civil War. Four of the five supporting-actor nominees that year were in films about race relations. In addition to Washington was Danny Aiello in Do The Right...
Dominion Postreviewof theYear of Falling(Sept, 2015) NZ HeraldreviewofThe Year of Falling(Sept, 2015) Greg O’Brien’s comments on a poem on the ‘Best American Poems’blog(June, 2014) NZ Poetry ShelfreviewofThe Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider(Oct, 2013) ...
The three debut poets on the Poetry longlist were all published by Auckland University Press and Victoria University Press, along with another longlisted book,Under Glass(AUP),Gregory Kan’ssecond collection. All four finalists for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry were also published by...
1 hits and is a co-writer or sole writer on most of those. During the ACM Honors, he was celebrated with the ACM Poet’s Award and was honored by Eric Church. “Alan Jackson is an institution and an American treasure. It’s my honor to be here and play for him,” Chur...
s Top 25 Novels of 2016; I was selected by Granta for their once-a-decade Best of Young American Novelists list of 21 authors under 40. A former MFA Visiting Professor at San Jose State University and a current Contributing Editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, I’ve also made appearances...
California. Her poetry collection,Citizen: An American Lyrics(Graywolf Press, 2014),won the PEN Open Book Award, the PEN literary Award, the NAACP Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In 2013, Professor Rankine was elected chancellor of the American Academy of Poe...
The Characters of Jeffrey Wright. From his first starring film role as artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, to his latest appearance as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison in American Fiction, BAM celebrates Wright’s exceptional contributions to cinema. The line-up will start with Basquiat (1996) o...
of the philosophy department now in the UK, and almost anywhere in the world. And that really changes what happens under the title philosophy. There are really quite a large number of people who are able to make a living as novelists, playwrights, and even poets. But you find it very, ...