When you interview a great poet, you don't wait too long to ask them to read a poem. Here's Yusef Komunyakaa reading from his poem "A Prayer For Workers." YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA: (Reading) Daybreak to ...

Yusef Kumonyakaa, Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021) The nimble verses of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, a professor ...

This month on the Poetry Podcast, Yusef Komunyakaa reads “Names” by Marilyn Hacker. The poem, which begins, “Be mindful of names,” is a charge to remember that the act of ascribing words to people and ...

Smith College will present a reading by distinguished poet Yusef Komunyakaa at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 17, in Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Is there anything new to say about war? With the recent glut of books and films tackling the subject, one certainly has reason for posing the question. But “Warhorses,” the latest collection from ...

A poem is more like a table than a cloud. This is what I often say to my creative writing students, to shock them out of their cliches about poetry. I want to help them see poetry as something with ...

Komunyakaa was the latest poet in the college's annual series, and the biggest name. Associate professor of creative writing B.J. Ward barters readings of his poetry for readings at WCCC, he said ...

The Zbigniew Herbert Foundation has named the American poet Yusef Komunyakaa Laureate of the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 2021. Komunyakaa – the winner of a Pulitzer Prize, amongst ...

'Poetry helps me understand who I am,” says Yusef Komunyakaa, his deep, resonant voice rumbling like thunder down the phone line from his home in Trenton, New Jersey. “It helps me understand the world ...