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Three Books to Read If You're Scared of Poetry
Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry.
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The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience
Cox, University of Dayton Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black ...
Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...