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Washington, DC Poetry Tour

anotefrommel wrote 1 month ago: Washington, DC Poetry Tour Our nation’s capital through the eyes of its great poets. (Courtesy of th … more →

Tags: (in photos), People in the World of Art, Washington, Elizabeth Alexander, DC Poetry Tour, Poetry Tour, Photographer Thomas Sayers Ellis, DC Poets, photos

Today in Michigan History

michiganisamazing wrote 4 months ago: August 4, 1913 Poet Robert Hayden was born. Born Asa Bundy Sheffey in Detroit, Robert Hayden had a t … more →

Tags: Michigan, History, Michigan History

1943

Unity9 wrote 5 months ago: Robert Hayden Becomes Bahá’í Robert Hayden was an internationally recognized poet and the firs … more →

Those Winter Sundays

ocannell wrote 5 months ago: BY ROBERT E. HAYDEN Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, … more →

Tags: Reading, Poems, Poems

Fathers.5 comments

mariegauthier wrote 6 months ago: With any luck, I hope to have my computer issues resolved within a few days.  Also, presales of my c … more →

Tags: Poetry, Family, Chapbooks, Those Winter Sundays, npr

The Shield of Achilles

matteilar wrote 6 months ago: Try to keep up: For the past couple of weeks or so, Ta-Nehisi Coates has been blogging about the mat … more →

Tags: Politics, features, Poetry, Auden, abu ghraib, 9/11, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Poet #5: Sterling Brown1 comment

czarnickolas wrote 7 months ago: Sterling Brown “[T]he sincere, sensitive artist, willing to go beneath the cliches of popular … more →

Tags: Poets, Poetry, Education, Sterling Brown, Phillis Wheatley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, Michael S. Harper

Hair5 comments

cocoyea wrote 10 months ago: I was getting rid of some boxes that’s been just sitting in a corner of my apartment.  And I c … more →

Tags: Cancelled Without Prejudice, writing, poetry & writing, Poetry, Poem, hair, Haiku

We Examine the Politics of Poetry2 comments

Denise wrote 10 months ago: The prodigal blogger has returned to poetry and now is trying to get caught up. We met at Frances … more →

Tags: Billy Collins, Carl Adamshick, Eugene McCarthy, Lanston Hughes, Madeleine Begun Kane, Rudyard Kipling

Reading: Robert Hayden's "Middle Passage"

abrandnewcolony wrote 1 year ago: Robert Hayden’s poem, “Middle Passage” is about the slave trade, and the madness in the narrative of … more →

Tags: Opinion, College, On the Bookshelf, Student, Books, Lit of the US 1960-Present, Close Reading, Analysis, Middle Passage

American Poet2 comments

hysperia wrote 1 year ago: Frederick Douglass When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poem, Poet, American poet, Frederick Douglass

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

robertweinberg wrote 1 year ago: Robert Hayden was a pioneering African-American poet. He won the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First … more →

Tags: academic, Baha'u'llah, Literary, 20th century - 1950-1999, Baha'i, Poetry

We Get Wet1 comment

Denise wrote 1 year ago:     Jusangjollidae Cliff, Jeju Island, South Korea 2008 Thinking about water, we shared these poems … more →

Tags: Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Bobbi Katz, Bruce Balan, Kay Ryan, Beatrice V, Nikolai Gumiyov, John Masefield, david ferry

I'm Up on Back Fence PDX!; Father's Day4 comments

The Underblawger wrote 1 year ago: Melissa and Frayn have graciously allowed me to submit an entry to the Back Fence Site. This month … more →

Tags: Life is Shorts, Back Fence PDX

robert hayden | those winter sundays

Norbert Blei wrote 1 year ago: Poetry Dispatch No.237 | June 8, 2008 Poems for the Father Father’s Day, June 15th, is one week from … more →

Tags: norbert blei, Poetry, Poems for the father, Those Winter Sundays, The Whipping

Robert Hayden: "Those Winter Sundays"

matt wrote 1 year ago: Video kudos to heards Robert Hayden’s poem read by Carl Hancock Rux … more →

Those Winter Sundays2 comments

Huckleberry Dumbell, Editor In Chief wrote 1 year ago: Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked ha … more →

Tags: Poetry


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