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Tag Archives: Counterpoint
Your Invitation to the Wake: For Alexandra Petri, After Her Article, ‘Is Poetry Dead?’
By Tatyana Brown The Tuesday afternoon after Obama was inaugurated for his second term (the same day The Washington Post published your thoughts on Richard Blanco and the state of certain fields of contemporary literature), I taught a poetry workshop … Continue reading
They Got the Guns, But we Got the Numbers: Why Radius Will Continue to Submit to the Pushcart Prize
By Victor D. Infante There is a manner in which you chew too long on irrelevant questions, the way you feel obliged to answer them, but find instead a stuttering nothing lodged in your throat, a stammer as you begin … Continue reading
Posted in Editors
Tagged Counterpoint, How We Read, poetry and culture, Victor D. Infante
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La Revolución Will Not Be Reviewed In The New York Times
By Rich Villar Disclaimers: I’m a poet. I talk a lot about poems. I realize that the argument is about literature in general. You will also notice a lot of politics in this essay. These are not apologies, just recognitions. … Continue reading
Posted in Guest contributors
Tagged Clemente Soto Velez, Counterpoint, Federico Garcia Lorca, Hart Crane, Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Martí, Julia de Burgos, Langston Hughes, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Luis Pales Matos, Nicolás Guillen, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, poetry and culture, poetry and identity, Rich Villar, Sterling Brown, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams
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The Déjà Vu of Oprah Winfrey
By Victor D. Infante And then there was Oprah. Few things have cut across the poetry community like the “Power of Poetry” issue of O Magazine. And certainly, there was plenty there to digest: Maria Shriver interviewing Mary Oliver, Edward … Continue reading
Posted in Editors
Tagged Counterpoint, Oprah, Poetry and Popular Culture, Victor D. Infante
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Greatest American Poems?
By Victor D. Infante On Friday, American poet, novelist and critic Jay Parini published a list of “10 Best American Poems” online for the British newspaper, The Guardian. On the surface, it’s a fine list, with a few standards, including … Continue reading