Iambic Pentameter T-shirt
This exclusive blue-on-black t-shirt features scansion marks and a quotation from Wallace Stevens: "I wish that I might be a thinking stone."
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Superstition by Amy Lowell I have painted a picture of a ghost
THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS
Spotlight Poet Claude McKay
McKay's viewpoints and poetic achievements in the earlier part of the twentieth century set the tone for the Harlem Renaissance and gained the deep respect of younger black poets of the time, including Langston Hughes.
Spotlight Essay A Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance
"The legacy of the Harlem Renaissance opened doors and deeply influenced the generations of African American writers that followed, including Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks..."
Spotlight Book
Discipline
by Dawn Lundy Martin
Claudia Rankine notes that what Martin's poems evoke "is beyond knowledge. Instead, find the feelings words only strive toward. I was awakened..."