Her new book, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” is an exploration of what happened to her marriage after she became a well-known poet.
Category: Poetry and Poets
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Rita Dove and the Younger Poet Who ‘Electrified’ Her
Rita Dove taught Safiya Sinclair that “it’s OK to say a thing plainly.”
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What a U.S. Poet Laureate Wants to Pass Down
Joy Harjo’s work is rooted in the Native community, a respect that’s shared by the poet and writer Layli Long Soldier.
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Lucinda Williams Tells Her Secrets
The singer-songwriter reveals herself in a memoir that captures her adventures with charming rogues, puzzled music executives and her own demons.
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Solange Curates Powerful Performances of Black Joy and Pain at BAM
Through Saint Heron, the musician brought Angélla Christie and the Clark Sisters for a night exploring Black religious music, and Linda Sharrock and Archie Shepp for a show that felt anything but safe.
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Keith Reid, Who Brought Poetry to Procol Harum, Dies at 76
The New York Times – Music:He did not perform with the group, but his impressionistic words made it one of the leading acts of the progressive-rock era.
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Following a Folk Tale Through the Himalayas
The New York Times – Travel:On a trip through northern India, a writer was guided by the age-old epic story of “Rajula Malushahi,” which led him to a series of unexpected places.
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The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know
The New York Times – T Magazine:A guide to some of the undervalued 20th-century works that testify to the richness of the Black American literary archive.
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Could the Next Great Author Be a Robot? We Asked (Human) Writers.
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:At the PEN America Literary Awards, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman and others discussed the role A.I. could play in literature.
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Building a New Canon of Black Literature
The New York Times – T Magazine:What older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered?
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‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:The Jewish Museum surveys one of the grandest families of the 19th century: a hemisphere-spanning dynasty of merchants, poets, soldiers and socialites (oh, and also drug lords).