Category: Poetry

  • The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah Wilfrid Laurier University Press October 2009 102 pages Paper ISBN13: 978-1-55458-046-0 Fred Wah, Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate Edited by: Louis Cabri, Associate Professor of English University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the…

  • The nation’s poet The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Personal Journeys 2012-10-06 Rosalind Bentley, Arts and Culture writer Personal Journeys is a new weekly feature for readers who like good writing and good story-telling The National Book Festival along the Mall in Washington is thronged with readers and authors who’ve come to revel in the written word on…

  • Cedric Dover Wasafiri Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012) pages 56-57 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2012.662322 Cedric Dover was born in Calcutta in 1904. Dover’s mixed ancestry (English father, Indian mother) and his studies in zoology led to a strong interest in ethnic minorities and their marginalisation. After his studies, he joined the Zoological Survey of India as a…

  • The Fifth Figure Bloodaxe Books 2006-09-28 80 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1852247320; ISBN-13: 978-1852247324 Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a ‘one-woman festival’. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of…

  • In this new symphonic collection, “Travel Light Travel Dark,” Agard casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters.

  • Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe Freeword: a global meeting place for literature, argument and free thinking 2012-06-12 Hannah Lowe A panelist at ‘2 Nations’, our recent event exploring national identity, Hannah Lowe is a poet of Chinese, Jamaican and English heritage. In this poem she performed for the audience that night, she explores how…

  • Poet to discuss biracialism during UHV/ABR Fall Reading Series University of Houston-Victoria Newswire Victoria, Texas 2012-09-20 Born to a Chinese mother and a Norwegian father, award-winning author Paisley Rekdal’s mixed heritage often influences her poetry and essay writing. She will share her insights about biracialism on Sept. 27 as the second speaker in the University…

  • “Intimate” is a hybrid memoir and “photo album” that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America.

  • Poet Laureate Inaugural Reading Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building (ground floor) (view map) 10 First Street, SE Washington, D.C. 2012-09-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Natasha Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress, will kick off the Library’s literary season with a reading. The event is free…

  • ‘Thrall’ by Natasha Trethewey, the poet laureate of the United States The Washington Post 2012-09-13 Elizabeth Lund Thrall. By Natasha Trethewey. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 84 pp. Natasha Trethewey’s “Thrall” is a must-read collection that equals the power and quality of her third book, “Native Guard,” which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize . “Thrall” also demonstrates…