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Georgia poet and Emory professor Jericho Brown awarded the Pulitzer | AJC

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020African American Author, Poetry ...

Pulitzer judges: Brown’s poems ‘combine delicacy with historical urgency’ Emory University professor Jericho Brown has won the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection, “The Tradition.” In awarding it Monday, the Pulitzer Prize Board described his work as a “collection of masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and […]

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s Powerful, Poetic Distillations | The Atlantic

January 4, 2018January 5, 2018African American Literature, KOLUMN ...

Revisiting bone, a 2017 collection that showed the possibilities of poetry on the internet

Remembering Dolores Kendrick, D.C.’s Poet Laureate, 1927–2017 | Washington City Paper

November 22, 2017African American History, Black History ...

The “first lady of poetry” leaves behind a rich legacy of promoting poetry throughout the District.

How Amanda Gorman Became the Nation’s First Youth Poet Laureate | The New York Times

November 14, 2017African American Art, African American Literature ...

Inspired by a speech that Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize laureate, gave in 2013, Ms. Gorman became a youth delegate for the United Nations at the age of 16.