POETRY & LITERATURE
The following citations for poetry may be initially helpful locating immediate sources in the popular press and social media. Successful search techniques include by: person, region, time period, style, and genre. Additional tips may include searching by locations of creative writing residency programs or fellowships for contemporary poets - see examples of Cave Canem, Poetry House, Pen America. For further research using literary databases, book reviews, journals, and archives, please see Harvard Library Guide on Literary Research.
Keyword Search Terms: poetry, literature, criticism, interpretation, rhetoric, (also see music.)
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Literary Balms: A Virtual Community Writing Project |
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| A Playlist for the April 2020 Issue Poetry Foundation Tishani Doshi April 3, 2020 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2020/04/a-playlist-for-the-april-2020-issue-5e8350caf3970 |
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| One World Ideas x Action and The Apollo Theater Presents Ta-Nehisi Coates and Heather McGhee Random House Ta-Nehisi Coates and Heather McGhee Apr 17, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1tqXzJ_YM |
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| PEN AMERICA LAUNCHES LOCAL HEROES: JOURNALISTS COVERING COVID-19 Pen America April 20, 2020 https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-launches-local-heroes-journalists-covering-covid-19/ |
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| Black Freighter Poetry Foundation Tongo Eisen-Martin April 24, 2020 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2020/04/black-freighter |
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| Pandowrimo adriennemareebrown.com http://adriennemareebrown.net/2020/05/05/pandowrimo/ |
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Heart First Into This Ruin: In her unsettling and candid poems, Wanda Coleman challenged the rot of American racism. |
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| An African Literary Festival for the Age of Coronavirus New York Times Abdi Latif Dahir May 14, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/books/afrolit-sans-frontieres-africa-literature.html |
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| Poetry Foundation Leadership Resigns After Black Lives Matter Statement New York Times Jennifer Schuessler June 9, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/books/poetry-foundation-black-lives-matter.html |
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| A reading of "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" The Agitator Broadcast, American Writers Museum Dr. Haki Madhubuti, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nora Brooks Blakely, Maudlyne Ihejirika, Layla F. Saad, Angélique Roché, Dr. John Stauffer, Jacqueline Woodson, Mikki Kendall, Dr. Ivy Wilson, Colin Johnson, and Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. June 11, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Bzbt5BJlo&feature=youtu.be |
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The Poems That Poets Turn to in a Time of Strife |
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| ‘Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry’: The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown writes for the Book Review about life during the pandemic. New York Times Jericho Brown June 15, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/review/jericho-brown-say-thank-you-say-im-sorry-poem-coronavirus.html |
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| ‘Weather’: The poet Claudia Rankine writes for the Book Review about the climate in America at this moment. New York Times Claudia Rankine June 15, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/books/review/claudia-rankine-weather-poem-coronavirus.html |
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| LIVE POETRY READING - Gabriel Ramirez CCCADI Gabriel Ramirez June 23, 2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBzHZsTJYt6/ |
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| THE PEN POD: EVERYWHERE YOU DON’T BELONG WITH GABRIEL BUMP Pen America Gabriel Bump June 29, 2020 https://pen.org/the-pen-pod-gabriel-bump/?mc_cid=c8cdf395f0&mc_eid=96cecbb99d |
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| THE PEN POD: ON THE INEQUITIES OF SURVIVAL WITH MEGAN GIDDINGS Pen America Megan Giddings June 30, 2020 https://pen.org/the-pen-pod-megan-giddings/?mc_cid=c8cdf395f0&mc_eid=96cecbb99d |
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| Mayor De Blasio: Expand COVID19 relief funding to NYC's literary arts community change.org New York City Literary Action Coalition July 6, 2020 https://www.change.org/p/mayor-bill-de-blasio-mayor-de-blasio-expand-covid19-relief-funding-to-nyc-s-literary-arts-community |
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| The Decameron Project New York Times Sophy Hollington, Shawna X, Monica Ramos, María Medem, Kyutae Lee, Derek Abella, Klaus Kremmerz, Sophi Miyoko Gullbrants, Linda Merad, ABANG, Richard A. Chance, Marly Gallardo, Charlotte Edey, Flora Mottini, Jaedoo Lee, Shannon Lin, and Jacky Myint July 8, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/magazine/decameron-project-short-story-collection.html |
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Rambling Through a Few Months of Covid-19 |
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