Tag: poetry
PRESS ROOM: Iconic Writers Honored at the Poetry Foundation’s 2022 Pegasus Awards
By BlackPressUSA
Celebrating poets’ legacies and the future of the art
CHICAGO — Thirteen writers made history and were celebrated during a festive evening of verse and...
Poet Marilyn Nelson wins $100,000 lifetime achievement prize
By Associated Press
Marilyn Nelson has won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets for “proven...
Q&A: Amanda Gorman talks UN poem, fame, future presidency
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., Associated Press
When Amanda Gorman was invited to read a newly developed poem at the U.N. General Assembly, the young sensation took...
California Commemorates Juneteenth ’22
The holiday is recognition of June 19th, 1865, the day Union soldiers notified enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay, Texas that they were free...
Alice Walker & The San Diego Community College District
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint
Recently, most of us saw with a degree of excitement that noted author...