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Profile and poems of Yusef Komunyakaa, including audio files, at the Poetry Foundation. Biography at ibiblio; Views on Poetry Archived 2008-07-06 at the Wayback Machine; Biography; Profile and poems at Poets.org; Video of Yusef's reading, 3/09/09, at the Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena, CA, as featured on Poetry.LA; Yusef Komunyakaa Papers ...
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.
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.
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.
Since 2015, Rita Dove's poem, Cozy Apologia, has been a part of the WJEC Edquas GCSE English Literature specification in England and Wales, featuring in its poetry anthology. [ 71 ] In 2021, Dove received the gold medal in poetry [ 72 ] from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , the academy's highest honor, as the 16th poet (and only the ...
Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1947) Mary Koncel; Ted Kooser (born 1939) Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946) Alfred Kreymborg (1883–1966) Maxine Kumin (1925–2014) Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) Laurie Kutchins; Stephen Kuusisto (born 1955) Joanne Kyger (1934–2017)
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 ...