Imagine being a young poet, nurturing your craft without the benefit of established mentors. Imagine having never been in a class taught by a woman poet or not having a bookshelf filled with books written by living women poets. Luckily, young women poets today don t have to. Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker s "Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections "collects both personal essays and representative poems by women born after 1960 whose careers were influenced directly or indirectly by the women who preceded them. The poets in this collection describe a new kind of influence,...
Imagine being a young poet, nurturing your craft without the benefit of established mentors. Imagine having never been in a class taught by a woman po...
"Starting Today" contains 100 poems written during - and responding to - Barack Obama's first 100 days in office. The poems included in this anthology, except for Elizabeth Alexander's inauguration poem, were all written no more than a day before they appeared on the popular blog "Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days". The result is a work that documents the political and personal events of those crucial days through a variety of contemporary poetic voices, from the ebullient to the admiring, from the pithy to the loquacious. Editors Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg explain in...
"Starting Today" contains 100 poems written during - and responding to - Barack Obama's first 100 days in office. The poems included in this anthology...