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An upcoming poetry festival will be a reflection on Amanda Gorman’s poem “Chorus of the Captains,” which she recited at the Super Bowl in 2021.
Tom Hardy’s take on Bane in The Dark Knight Rises had the venom, but apparently, for some fans, it lacked the venomous bulk they were expecting.
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) student Stephanie Pacheco, the 2024-25 National Youth Poet Laureate, has ...
From the column: "Amanda Gorman, who inspired the nation at the inauguration of President Joe Biden just a little over four years ago, spoke with poignant prescience." ...
For the poet and author, a winning agenda includes bookstore shopping, a stroll along the Santa Monica Pier and ...
Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl returns April 19-26, inviting bookworms on a literary journey through as many as 26 independent bookstores across the ...
Maya Angelou is the second poet in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration; Robert Frost was the first ...
J’Nai Bridges will perform the world premiere of “Everything Hurts,” a musical setting of poet Amanda Gorman’s “Hymn for the ...
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Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...
The biennial poetry reading Live Poets will be held in the Johann Fust courtyard and loggia on Thursday, April 10, at 4 p.m. Poets reading at the event incl ...