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 …
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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, …