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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.
"The Poem That Was Once Called "Desperate" But Is Now Striving to Become the Perfect Love Poem" North American Review: Gray Jacobik "Dust Storm" Ploughshares: George Kalamaras "Mud" New Letters: Jennifer L. Knox "The Bright Light of Responsibility" Exquisite Corpse (magazine) Philip Kobylarz "A Bill, Posted" Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa "Jeanne ...
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.
The Best American Poetry 2003, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa.. Ron Smith, reviewing the book in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, wrote that Galway Kinnell's When the Towers Fell is "often moving, even if it doesn't manage the fusion of Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot it aims for."
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.
"Two Prose Poems" Rosebud: Mary Karr "The Patient" Poetry: X. J. Kennedy "A Curse on a Thief" Harvard Review: Galway Kinnell "Why Regret?" The New Yorker: Carolyn Kizer "The Erotic Philosophers" The Yale Review: Ron Koertge "1989" Solo: Yusef Komunyakaa "Scapegoat" Ontario Review: William Kulik "The Triumph of Narcissus and Aphrodite" Black ...