from Interview with a Birangona
by Tarfia Faizullah • from Ploughshares
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Tarfia Faizullah
Tarfia Faizullah is a third-year poetry student in Virginia Commonwealth University's creative writing program. Her poems have appeared in Diode, Memorious, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere.
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In "The Nonanxiety of Influence," this week's prose feature from the Women's Review of Books, Kate Daniels looks at second books by three poets who enjoyed acclaim for their first: "There has long existed an idea in American literary culture that writers who publish a highly successful and critically acclaimed first book can rarely follow it with a similar achievement. In reviewing these second volumes of poetry, I wondered if that idea exerted any power over these writers, and I thought about the publication history of poetry by American women."
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Announcing this year's recipient ...
The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in 1989 to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality. The awards recognize writers who have made significant contributions to English-language literature. The fellowships recognize writers of distinctive literary merit who demonstrate potential for continued outstanding work. MORE
Sarah Cohen talks with Linda Bierds about her new collection, Flight: New and Selected Poems.
Marianne Combs talks with Dobby Gibson about his new collection Skirmish.
Citizenship restored to Nazim Hikmet.
Alyssa Haywoode reviews Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers, by Robert Roper.
His work formerly banned in Turkey, Nazim Hikmet's citizenship is to be restored.
Ted Genoways chooses his favorite books of 2008.
Inger Christensen, 73.
Fleda Brown ponders the task of the inaugural poet.
Barbara Carey briefly reviews Wasps in a Golden Dream, by Asher Ghaffar and Breaker, by Sue Sinclair.
Carol Rumens presents a poem by Australian poet, Kevin Brophy.
Marjorie Kehe introduces an audio of a chat with Todd Boss.
Liane Hansen talks with E. Ethelbert Miller about the work of Langston Hughes and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Gerald Dawe talks with Chris Agee and Pat Ramsay about poetry in post-peace process Northern Ireland.
Tina Kelley highlights new York poets such as Philip Schultz, Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Joe Weil and others. MORE
Just Received: New Collections By
- Kevin Stein
- Wayne Miller
- Endi Bogue Hartigan
- Carey Salerno
- Gerald McCarthy
- Khaled Mattawa
- Seido Ray Ronci
- Roger Mitchell
- Annemarie Austin
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Poetry Out Loud 2009!
Presented by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and their State Arts Agency partners
The 2009 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest is under way! Follow the competition all the way to the National Finals, April 28 in Washington, DC, in Poetry Daily's special POL news section:
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• Poetry Out Loud Web Site
• More from the NEA
2008 National Champion Shawntay Henry (Photo © James Kegley
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