Yusef Komunyakaa's Books
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The Best American Poetry 2003"Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary," writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thought-provoking...Read More
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Yale Daily News, April 1, 2013
...Alexander will host a poetry reading at the Artspace gallery featuring writers including Hettie Jones and Pulitzer Prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa, who were friends of Ghebreyesus and admired his work. Lee said text is a constant theme in many of...
MySanAntonio, March 23, 2013
...endangered environment: Hass, A.R. Ammons, Robert Bly, Carolyn Forché, John Haines, Joy Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, W.S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, Alberto Ríos and...
TickerTech.com, March 4, 2013
...Poetry Award recipient. Past winners of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award include Robert Wrigley, Tom Sleigh, Matthea Harvey, Yusef Komunyakaa, Chase Twichell, and Timothy Donnelly. About Claremont Graduate University Founded in 1925, Claremont...
Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2013
...by Kate Tufts in memory of her husband, who loved poetry but never studied it. Previous winners include Yusef Komunyakaa, Chase Twichell and D.A. Powell. Boruch's other accolades include Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright/visiting professorship at the...
Buffalo News, February 26, 2013
...The Collected Poems of Ai, introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa; Norton, 464 pages, $35. Her real name was Florence Ogawa Anthony. She famously described herself in a 1978 essay as ?1/2 Japanese, 1/8 Choctaw, 1/4 Black, and 1/16 Irish...
Oprah.com, February 23, 2013
...the titans—former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove, current laureate Natasha Trethewey, and Pulitzer Prize winners Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith—you'll discover younger poets who have taken the baton and sprinted into uncharted...
Topeka Capital-Journal, February 15, 2013
...a Washburn alunmnus, give an on-campus reading in 2011 of "Missing You, Metropolis," which Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa selected in 2009 as the recipient of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. In her director's notes, Weiner said she...
Broadway World, January 15, 2013
...Erlbach (The Zipper, Ars Nova, The PIT & Comix, Darren Katz, dir.), Oklahoma! (Baayork Lee, dir.), Saturnalia by Yusef Komunyakaa (Music-Theatre Group, Daniel Fish, dir.). Concerts: Highline Ballroom, City Winery, Joe's Pub. Ishibashi is a...
Morris Township-Morris Plains Patch, January 11, 2013
...Senior Home Care Services, Morristown Why Go: You're a caregiver looking for support and services Cost: Free Yusef Komunyakaa Poetry Reading and Speak Peace Exhibition When/Where: Friday, 7 p.m. at Drew University, Madison Why Go: You want to see...
Morristown Patch, January 11, 2013
...Senior Home Care Services, Morristown Why Go: You're a caregiver looking for support and services Cost: Free Yusef Komunyakaa Poetry Reading and Speak Peace Exhibition When/Where: Friday, 7 p.m. at Drew University, Madison Why Go: You want to see...
Wicked Local Boxborough, January 11, 2013
...Past winners of the Robert Creeley Award are Thomas Lux, Bruce Weigl, Gary Snyder, Sonia Sanchez, John Ashbery, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carolyn Forché, C.D. Wright, Martín Espada, Grace Paley, Galway Kinnell, and Robert Creeley himself in 2001. The...
Madison Patch, January 10, 2013
...Senior Home Care Services, Morristown Why Go: You're a caregiver looking for support and services Cost: Free Yusef Komunyakaa Poetry Reading and Speak Peace Exhibition When/Where: Friday, 7 p.m. at Drew University, Madison Why Go: You want to see...
Madison Patch, January 8, 2013
...both a chronological and thematic history of the ways in which women were imagined in Victorian art. Yusef Komunyakaa Poetry Reading and Speak Peace Exhibition : Readings by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Vietnam War correspondent Yusef...
Pueblo Chieftain Online, January 7, 2013
...sleeping, mating and giving birth upside-down — "as a fallen angel trying to go home," as poet Yusef Komunyakaa put it. In a day, it slowly moves up to 120 feet, going hand-over-hand, with young clinging to mother's stomach, occasionally reaching out...
