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Engaging with Eunice de Souza’s work through the collected poems in Volcano, edited by Melanie Silgardo and Vidyan ...
On a quiet weekday afternoon, Flint-based poet Vivian Kao can often be found walking through Buckham Gallery with a clipboard in hand. As ...
Beyond her celebrated image as the “Tragedy Queen” of Hindi cinema, Meena Kumari was an accomplished poet. She wrote under ...
With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...
M an y American poets still take their tensions from Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, whose confessional poetry (a term coined by the critic M. L. Rosenthal) has been the de facto manner for the past ...
JL: The late Allen Ginsberg on the first Earth Day, which was here in Philadelphia 55 years ago. He was known for embodying counterculture. He wrote beat literature and confessional poetry. Let’s just ...
Poetry has always assembled and disassembled—and reassembled—in all kinds of magical and necessary ways. — Daniel Halpern and Walt Hunter 25 To 2040 By Jorie Graham “Are we / extinct yet.
Dhar seeks to be unmindful of the “so-called template” of modern confessional poetry. But the way she does that is not confrontational. It is not unconscious either.
Poets Tan Lixin, Laili Abdeen and Theophilus Kwek shared their thoughts on how American singer Taylor Swift’s lyricism intersects with the ever-growing and changing form of confessional poetry.
Poetry. Edward Desire Kibirige’s poetry collection, the Bard Diaries, is confessional poetry of this fashion. He hopes, as he writes, that his personal experiences may touch the spirit of all ...