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Nii Ayikwei Parkes (/ ˌ n iː ˈ i ˈ aɪ ˈ ɪ k w eɪ ˈ p ɑːr k s /; [2] born 1 April 1974), [3] born in the United Kingdom to parents from Ghana, where he was raised, is a performance poet, writer, publisher and sociocultural commentator.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) have criticized the International Library of Poetry's business model, describing its practices as "deceptive and misleading" in that they misrepresented their activities as a contest based on the quality of poetry submitted, whereas in fact the quality had little or no influence on the outcome.
Turning to the echo caused internationally by her poetry, Quan Shen then adds that abroad, the renowned poet Germain Germaine Droogenbroodt wrote in the preface to her latest collection of poems "Loneliness in the Blood” that Anna Keiko's poetry "forms a bridge linking east and west in international poetry", and that her poetry is not so much ...
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and ...
Barbara Guest wrote more than 15 books of poetry spanning sixty years of writing. "Her poems begin in the midst of action," wrote Peter Gizzi in his introduction to a collection of her work, "but their angle of perception is oblique." [3] Her poems are known for their abstract quality, vivid language, and intellectualism. She believed that the ...
Michael George Longley CBE (27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025) was a Northern Irish poet. In his later years Longley observed: "It's a mystery where poems come from. If I knew where poems came from I would go there ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 December 2024. American poet and writer Gary Soto Soto at the 2001 National Book Festival Born Gary Anthony Soto (1952-04-12) April 12, 1952 (age 72) Fresno, California Occupation Author, poet Education MFA Alma mater UC Irvine, CSU Fresno Period 1977-present Genre poetry, novels, memoirs, children's ...
Since 2001, she has been the editor of an [online international poetry anthology] [7] is a widely read website on anti-war poems, nature poetry, poems of loss and grieving, spiritual poetry, women poets, and poems in Spanish. She has helped popularize many contemporary poets including David Shumate, Lola Haskins, Quentin Huff, Susan Dane, Bill ...