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Yusef Komunyakaa (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) [2] is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award , for Neon Vernacular [ 3 ] and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry .
Facing It" is a poem by American poet and author Yusef Komunyakaa. It is a reflection on Komunyakaa's first visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Komunyakaa served in Vietnam and was discharged from the Army in 1966, during which time he wrote for army newspaper Southern Cross. It is the second poem written by Komunyakaa about Vietnam. R. S.
His first book was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa for The National Poetry Series and published in 1996. He recently retired from Missouri State University.
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter.
One of my favorite poets I discovered in undergrad was Yusef Komunyakaa. When I discovered his book, “Magic City,” I realized poetry doesn’t have to be like Shakespeare or meter or rhyme.
The Best American Poetry 2000 (ISBN 0-7432-0033-0), a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Rita Dove.. In her introduction, Dove defended the idea that poets should be politically committed: "[W]e poets cannot afford to shit ourselves away in our convalescent homes, boning our specialized fools, while the barbarians — no matter if they are ...
Clark Ashton Smith wrote a romantic prose poem titled "In Cocaigne" (1922). “The Land of Cockaigne” is the first poem in the 2015 book The Emperor of Water Clocks by Yusef Komunyakaa, an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994.
He served as selector of poems of the American poet Craig Arnold (1967–2009). [12] Merwin is known for his poetry about the Vietnam War and can be included among the canon of Vietnam War-era poets which includes writers Robert Bly, Robert Duncan, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg and Yusef Komunyakaa. [13]