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Is the light a comfort and the night disturbing? Yusef Komunyakaa explores the life and brilliance of what's in shadow and darkness.Yusef Komunyakaa was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana. The son of a carpenter, Komunyakaa has said that he was first alerted to the power of language through his grandparents, who were church people: “the sound of the Old Testament informed the cadences of their speech,” Komunyakaa has stated. “It was my first introduction to poetry.” He has taught at numerous institutions including University of New Orleans, Indiana University, and Princeton University. He is a senior faculty member in the NYU Creative Writing Program.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Yusef Komunyakaa's poem, and invite you to sign up here for the latest from Poetry Unbound.

In honor of Memorial Day and the men and women who have sacrificed their lives in the armed forces, this special episode of Strategies & Consequences War is an anthology of excerpts from poems and prose about war. In On War, Clausewitz writes about war as a science that can be analyzed impersonally. This perspective is contrasted with Mccrae's In Flanders Fields and Komunyakaa's Tu Do Street. These poems reflect lived experience in brutal conflicts and the effects on combatants and civilians alike. For show notes check www.strategiesconsequences.com, and for any requests email me at strategiesconsequences@gmail.com. Thank you for your support. -George--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/strategiesconsequences/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/strategiesconsequences/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit strategiesconsequences.substack.com

Yusef Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Neon Vernacular, a collection of poems that spoke about the realities of the Vietnam War, of which he was a veteran. His other collections include Warhorses, Taboo, and The Emperor of Water Clocks. The Distinguished Senior Poet in New York University's creative writing program and a former Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets, he is the recipient of the 2011 Wallace Stevens Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the William Faulkner Prize, among other honors. Full of Komunyakaa's signature jazz–like meter and moving imagery, Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth includes both new work and selected poems from the last two decades. Books available to order through the Joseph Fox Bookshop (recorded 4/28/2021)

EPISODE 37 -  Poet and Didn’t Know ItGuest: Charif ShanahanIn this episode, published author and celebrated Poet Charif Shanahan helps us to demystify Poetry. Through his unique perspective and lens, he shares what it’s like to be a professor, a student, and a biracial gay man with a passion for the written word.Charif’s Mini Bio - Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing. He is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. Shanahan’s poems appear in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and more.Mentioned in PodcastBook by Charif Shanahan Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing: poemsThe poem read on today’s podcast: StoryOther Authors and Poets mentioned in Today's PodcastCave CanemToni MorrisonAlice WalkerMaya AngelouLawrence FerlinghettiWalt WhitmanWilliam ShakespeareBooks I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya AngelouGod Help The Child, Toni MorrisonThe Beat Poets and Beat Poetry ContributionThe Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. ... Both Howl and Naked Lunch were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United States. Linda GreggLinda Gregg was mentioned in the podcast as being one of Charif’s major mentors. Her published books include Things and Flesh, Chosen By The Lion, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, Too Bright to See, In the Middle Distance, and All of it Singing. Her poems also appeared in numerous literary magazines, inOn March 20, 2019, she died of cancer at the Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. WikipediaYusef KomunyakaaYusef is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. WikipediaMusic: Madonna - Like A PrayerReach out to us here…WebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterEmailYou can reach Sergio Novoa personally on InstagramTwitterFacebookVanessa WilkinsFacebookIGTheme song by:  http://djolgat.net

On Sept. 27th and 28th, the most notable poets of our time will gather in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower Poetry Center, the first academic center devoted to African American poetry in the United States. The founder of Furious Flower, Joanne Gabbin (James Madison University), along with Lauren Alleyne (James Madison University) join us in studio to celebrate this anniversary and hear the voices of Furious Flower poets like Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Rita Dove and others who have appeared on With Good Reason. Later in the show: Widely known for his poetry about the Vietnam War, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa’s writing has also explored themes of home, black resilience, and jazz and blues music. Komunyakaa was a guest of honor at a week-long seminar at James Madison University’s Furious Flower Poetry Center, called “Facing It,” titled after his most famous poem. And the recent book, Sargent’s Women tells the fascinating stories behind four of John Sargent’s portraits. From English manor houses to New Hampshire artist colonies, Donna M. Lucey (Virginia Humanities) ushers us into the scandalous and heartbreaking lives of Gilded Age high society.

Peter Laugesen har skrevet og udgivet digte i mere end 50 år. Vi taler om jazzen som evig inspirationskilde, om digterens musikalske samarbejder og om at gå på scenen med 16 bøger under armen. Og lytter bl.a. til Jakob Buchanans Kvartet, Tchicai & Komunyakaa og Jack Kerouac. Vært: Christina Englund. Foto: Simon Knudsen.

"Facing It" is the title of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusuf Komunyakaa's most famous poem, exploring themes of race, war, and home. On this week's show, we speak to Komunyakaa and other authors about how artists' work is impacted by the environment of their time.

The first *real* episode of Close Talking featuring Jack and Connor's discussion of the poem "Urban Renewal" by Yousef Komunyakaa. Find out how Jack and Connor came to create the Close Talking podcast, what their thoughts are on the poem, and much more in this thrilling episode. Like Close Talking on facebook at facebook.com/closetalking follow on twitter.com/closetalking and send an d-mail with comments, questions, or suggestions to closetalkingpoetry@gmail.com

Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Yusef Komunyakaa came to the Library last October to celebrate the release of his latest book, “The Emperor of Water Clocks.” In this engrossing conversation with NYPL’s Jessica Strand, Komunyakaa talks about music, Langston Hughes, and his literary coming of age.

Bill Tremblay is a poet, novelist, librettist, and reviewer. He directed the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Colorado State University, founded the Colorado Review and served as its chief editor for 15 years. His work has appeared in seven full-length volumes including Crying in the Cheap Seats [UMass Press], The Anarchist Heart [New Rivers Press: 1975]. Home Front [Lynx House Press: 1978]. Second Sun: New & Selected Poems [l”Eperiver Press: 1983]. Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada [BOA Editions Ltd.1986], Rainstorm Over the Alphabet [Lynx House Press, 1998], Shooting Script: Door of Fire [Eastern Washington University Press, 2003] which won the Colorado Book Award. His most recent book is: Magician’s Hat: Poems on the Life and Art of David Alfaro Siqueiros [Lynx House Press: 2013]. He received the John F. Stern Distinguished Professor Award in 2004. Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Komunyakaa received the 2007 Louisiana Writer Award for his enduring contribution to the poetry world. His subject matter ranges from the black general experience through rural Southern life before the Civil Rights time period and his experience as a soldier.

Poet Yusef Komunyakaa appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: The 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner for "Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems," Yusef Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as an information specialist, saw combat and received a Bronze Star. His work combines those experiences with his life as an African American in the South. Komunyakaa also received the 1994 William Faulkner Prize. He currently teaches at New York University, and his latest work is "The Chameleon Couch: Poems" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5315.

Warhorses: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)The extraordinary part of this interview is the opportunity to hear Komunyakaa's voice as he reads his poetry. These poems are about love and war simultaneously, traumatic upheavals that may often be conjoined in this poet's vision of life.

 Hosted by the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University.Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Phillips and Natasha Trethewey gave a special reading as part of the 30th anniversary celebration for Callaloo , the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora. Founded in 1976 by editor Charles H. Rowell in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Callaloo publishes original works and critical studies of black artists and writers worldwide.Yusef Komunyakaa's numerous books of poems include Neon Vernacular (1994), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Komunyakaa is a chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and a professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.Carl Phillips' collection The Rest of Love (2004) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His recent collections are Quiver of Arrows and Riding Westward. Phillips is Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University.Natasha Trethewey won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for her first collection of poems, Domestic Work (2000). Since then she has published two more collections of poetry and received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Native Guard (2006). Trethewey teaches creative writing at Emory University.Recorded On: Friday, October 26, 2007

Yusef Komunyakaa is known as a "jazz poet," a Southern writer and a "soldier poet." Author of nine books and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Komunyakaa sets a provocative stage by rejecting the "write what you know" model in favor of the defying "write what you are willing to discover" premise. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 5640]

Yusef Komunyakaa is known as a "jazz poet," a Southern writer and a "soldier poet." Author of nine books and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Komunyakaa sets a provocative stage by rejecting the "write what you know" model in favor of the defying "write what you are willing to discover" premise. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 5640]

Yusef Komunyakaa is known as a "jazz poet," a Southern writer and a "soldier poet." Author of nine books and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Komunyakaa sets a provocative stage by rejecting the "write what you know" model in favor of the defying "write what you are willing to discover" premise. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 5640]

Yusef Komunyakaa is known as a "jazz poet," a Southern writer and a "soldier poet." Author of nine books and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Komunyakaa sets a provocative stage by rejecting the "write what you know" model in favor of the defying "write what you are willing to discover" premise. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 5640]