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Reading: What Marked Tom by Tyehimba Jess

Tyehimba Jess (b. 1965) is the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for his poetry book 'Olio'. Born in Detroit, he currently teaches at the College of Staten Island in New York City. I was impressed with some pages of Olio, a complex and beautiful poetic journey into the life of African American performers from the Civil ...

30 December, 2017

African American, anthology, Pulitzer, slavery, Tyehimba Jess

Poetry

Reading: Ellis Island by Peter Balakian

Today I read a poem from Armenian-American poet Peter Balakian (b. 1951). He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2016 and has been vocal about never forgetting the 1909 Armenian Genocide (death and expulsion of 1.5 million people in what was then the Ottoman Empire). Here's a poem called Ellis Island, the island of ...

29 December, 2017

anthology, Ellis Island, New York, Peter Baldakian, Pulitzer

Poetry