"Poetry on the Moon"
"Some poetry lovers might say Joe Heithaus’s work is out of this world. Heavenly. Otherworldly. Come this summer, they’ll be literally correct. “Silence,” a sonnet written by the DePauw English professor, is headed to the moon, part of a poetic payload arranged by Samuel Peralta, a physicist, entrepreneur and art aficionado."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Amaud Jamaul Johnson on Gwendolyn Brooks's "A Lovely Love""I was twenty and an undergraduate at Howard University, taking Dr. Jon Woodson’s Survey of African American Poetry. He was suspicious of labels and spent the first weeks of class arguing against his own course title. His first lecture began with a summary dismissal of Maya Angelou, who a year earlier was Bill Clinton’s Inaugural Poet. He would hand out poems with the authors’ names blacked out, and ask: “What makes this a Black poem, or is this good or bad?” We had to defend our answers. Our shortcomings were immediately evident. This is how I was introduced to Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'A Lovely Love.'" |
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