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Browse hundreds of essays, interviews, and articles about poets and poetry.

Title	Type	Date
Contemporary Criticism of The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes	Selections	Jan 2022
Poets Laureate Fellows Interview: Leslie Contreras Schwartz	Interviews	Jan 2022
Poets Laureate Fellows Interview: Georgina Marie Guardado	Interviews	Jan 2022
From Conversations with Walt Whitman by Sadakichi Hartmann, “Visits During 1886, March–October”	Selections	Jan 2022
Poets Laureate Fellows Interview: Aileen Cassinetto	Interviews	Dec 2021
Poet Laureate Fellow Interview: Semaj Brown	Interviews	Nov 2021
Poets Laureate Fellows Interview: Marcus Amaker	Interviews	Oct 2021
Foreword (From Passion by June Jordan)	Essays	Oct 2021
On Chutney Poems: Poetic Form as Resistance	Essays	Oct 2021
What the Owl Says: Politics, Empathy, and Complicity in Edward Thomas’s “The Owl”	Essays	Oct 2021
Poems for Workers	Poetry Roundups	Feb 2021
My Father, Lighthouse Keeper and Priest of the Holy Typewriter	Essays	Jan 2021
Inaugural Poem Analysis	for Children	Nov 2020
Inaugural Poem Assignment	for Children	Nov 2020
Survey of an American Century	Blaney Lecture	Sep 2020
Camille T. Dungy on “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley	Essays	Sep 2020
Adapting Teach This Poem to an Online or Hybrid Classroom	on Teaching Poetry	Aug 2020
Nonprofit Literary Arts Coalitions the Poetry Coalition, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), LitNet, and Writers in the Schools (WITS) Alliance Advocate for Funding		Apr 2020
COVID-19 and Emergency Relief Resources for Poets, Writers, and Poetry Organizations		Apr 2020
Poetry and the Women’s Suffrage Movement	from American Poets	Apr 2020

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