I was in college and found myself organizing a gay rights protest before I fully understood what gay rights meant.
Tag: Poetry and Poets
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The Search for Beauty in a Prison Cell
Prison, particularly for Black Americans, gets reduced to simple caricatures of violence and suffering. Inside the confines of a jail cell, through a book, I discovered salvation.
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2022 National Book Award Winners: Full List
Tess Gunty received the fiction prize for her debut, “The Rabbit Hutch.” Art Spiegelman, the author of “Maus,” received a lifetime achievement award.
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Remembering Joe Brainard, Poet and Painter of Miniature Works
The prodigious artist Joe Brainard reveled in making small-scale works, but as a new show reminds us, exemplified the soaring spirit of collaboration between painters and poets in the ’60s.
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Sex, Death, Family: Sharon Olds Is Still Shockingly Intimate
“No one should read more than one poem at a time from this book.”