FSU’s creative writing scene shines with Jimmy Kimbrell’s latest Bark poetry reading
FSU poetry professor James Kimbrell headlined The Jerome Stern Reading Series at The Bark, sharing work from his latest collection of poems.
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Writers’ Workshop professor, longlisted for National Book Award, ‘in love with Iowa City’
Elizabeth Willis, since arriving on the University of Iowa campus a decade ago, has come to epitomize the iconic and esteemed ...
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‘There’s a majesty to grief’: Poet and UMass professor Peter Gizzi wins prestigious 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the ...
Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of Jamaica
Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.
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Brown University Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes named poet laureate of Jamaica
Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...
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Retired U professor renown in poetry, literature dies at age 89
Professor of language and literature Peter Firchow said he was drawn to Unger by his enormous knowledge of poetry. He said Unger brought a certain tradition – a way of reading poetry – with influences ...
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Penn State Altoona professor’s poetry featured in a book, literary magazines
A poem by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley was published in the "New York Times" online magazine and appeared in the June 7 print ...
Professor Kwame Dawes is Jamaica’s fourth poet laureate
Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of ...
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‘There’s a majesty to grief’: Poet and UMass professor Peter Gizzi wins prestigious 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
Still, not everyone in the poetry world appreciated the win: The Telegraph bluntly declared that the award went to “the wrong man,” and The Times called out the judges for going “back to ...