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Andrea Gibson poem quotes revisited as fans honor the beloved poet and queer activist following their passing at 49.
Deep Water: A call for poems Portland Poet Laureate Gibson Fay-LeBlanc will launch a new weekly poetry column.
From poetry in his bedroom to now opening for big names like Tech N9ne, Dakotah Faye’s journey is more than just about music.
Savannah VOICE Festival and Deep Center are collaborating, giving young poets the chance to have their words put to music.
Maine poems selected by Gibson Fay-LeBlancThe poet and writer Mary Snell splits her time between a Maine lake and a Greek island. In this poem, she returns to the Portland neighborhood of her ...
Below, we explore twenty essential poems by Claude McKay that everyone should read, delving into their meanings, their contexts, and why they remain poignant and relevant.
New York “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” Rashid Johnson’s knotty retrospective that just opened at the Guggenheim, draws its title from a work by Amiri Baraka. Like that activist writer, the ...
Ah, Independence Day – when we celebrate this great nation of ours, with a little help from fireworks, ground beef and one-hit wonder poets. And just what are one-hit wonder poets? They&#8217… ...
A book from England just published, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them. Three Aussies contribute – that expat triumvirate of Barry Humphries, Clive James and Nick ...