Songwriters have a natural gift for the spoken and sung word. It’s no surprise that legendary songwriters like Leonard Cohen had backgrounds in poetry and authorship. That being said, many songwriters ...
"Animals in the American Classics" and "Animals in Classic American Poetry," Edited by John Gruesser
This week on The Bookmark, John Gruesser, editor of "Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction" and "Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired ...
Opening with the proto-feminist Puritan poems of Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) and closing with the reorienting poems of Joy Harjo of the Muskogee Nation (1951–), Chicago-born poet and literary critic ...
“On Imagination” is the opening poem in the Library of America’s “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song.” It was written by Phillis Wheatley in the mid-17th century. Wheatley was ...
After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word “best” and ...
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