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Belfast and the Best of Northern Ireland : asset-mezzanine-16x9

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Political Rewind: Celebrating Ireland's cultural contributions on St. Patrick's Day

Friday on Political Rewind: This Saint Patrick's Day, we celebrate Ireland's cultural contributions to the world, despite centuries of hardship.

March 17, 2023
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David Bottoms served as Georgia's Poet Laureate from 2000 to 2012.

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Remembering former Georgia Poet Laureate David Bottoms

Former Georgia Poet Laureate David Bottoms has died at the age of 73. His former student and current poetry professor at Mercer University James Davis May shares his memories of him.

March 16, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
Poet Charles Simic is photographed at the City University of New York, May 13, 2003.

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Opinion: Remembering poet Charles Simic

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Charles Simic, former U.S. poet laureate who was born in Belgrade right before World War II. He died this week after a long career of writing and teaching.

January 14, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
<em></em>Kwame Alexander's latest crowdsourced poem explores the world through the eyes of <em>Morning Edition</em> listeners' pets.

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What would Fido say about you? This community poem takes pets' point of view

We asked Morning Edition listeners to share what their pets might be thinking about. Then NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander combed through more than 700 submissions to create a community poem.

December 15, 2022
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  • Rachel Martin
"The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On" is Franny Choi's third poetry collection.

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Franny Choi's latest poetry finds hope for the future in our past apocalypses

Poet Franny Choi believes that for marginalized people, the apocalypse has already happened. In "The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On," she explores what it means to live in this dystopia.

November 03, 2022
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  • Julie Depenbrock
Pablo Neruda, then serving as Chile's ambassador to France, talks with reporters in Paris after being named winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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He's known as Chile's greatest poet, but feminists say Pablo Neruda is canceled

"He's been canceled," a Chilean activist says of 20th century poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Five decades after his death, feminists are denouncing him as a male chauvinist and sexual predator.

October 15, 2022
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  • John Otis
Amanda Gorman says the title of her 2021 poetry collection "Call Us What We Carry" came from her understanding that "we all can be vessels of both hurt and hope at the same time."

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Poet Amanda Gorman celebrates the gift of Blackness for Juneteenth

To mark the holiday, Gorman reads "Fury and Faith," a poem from Call Us What We Carry. She says her collection's title reflects how "we all can be vessels of both hurt and hope at the same time."

June 17, 2022
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  • Olivia Hampton
Poet Marwa Helal

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'Ante body' asks us to be more open to the world

In her new collection, Egypt-born poet Marwa Helal plays with language to challenge the way we approach our problems.

June 08, 2022
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  • Jeevika Verma

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In her new poems, Ada Limón argues for turning a delicate attention to the world

The award-winning poet's new collection, The Hurting Kind, is a testament to the power of sensitivity and to the reality that the world is here to both guide us and lead us astray.

May 09, 2022
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  • Jeevika Verma
Rozi Galambica in her home in Ozd, Hungary. Galambica attends university in the Netherlands.

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Hungarian Roma are translating Amanda Gorman; her poetry speaks to their experience

White European translators have hesitated to work on Gorman's poetry because of criticism that their race makes them inappropriate for the job. In Hungary, a marginalized community steps up.

January 29, 2022
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  • Joanna Kakissis
The Rio Grande is seen from the International Bridge near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border where a father and daughter drowned attempting to cross into the United States in 2019, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Oscar Alberto Martinez and his 23-month-old daughter, Angie Valeria, had migrated from El Salvador and planned to seek political asylum in the U.S. when they died.

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Poetry inspired by a viral photo of drowned migrants wins the National Book Award

Photos of a father and his young daughter, drowned in the Rio Grande, underlined the deadly risks of the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Martín Espada drew on them for his book Floaters.

November 18, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell
Sonia Sanchez reads from her book <em>Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums</em> during an NPR Music event in 2019.

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For poet Sonia Sanchez — at age 87 — there's more work to be done

For over 60 years, poet and activist Sonia Sanchez has helped redefine American culture, politics and education. She is this year's winner of the Gish Prize, a $250,000 lifetime achievement honor.

November 04, 2021
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  • Jeevika Verma
Memorial to poet José Martí in Old Havana

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Opinion: Free Expression Is On The Decline, In Cuba And Elsewhere

Cuba is one of dozens of countries, including some U.S. allies, using emergency powers to stifle free expression.

September 25, 2021
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  • Scott Simon
The author and her book.

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Political Rewind: Author, Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Weaves Powerful Story In Her Debut Novel

Friday on Political Rewind: The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois is a big-hearted epic leading us through the generational history of an African American family with deep roots in Georgia. Author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, a National Book Award-nominated poet, tells the story through rich characters and their family ties.

September 10, 2021
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  • Sam Bermas-Dawes
The state of Alabama has a new poet laureate: Ashley M. Jones is the first Black poet to claim the title, and at 31, also the youngest.

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Alabama's First Black Poet Laureate Takes A Personal Approach To 'Reparations'

Ashley M. Jones is Alabama's youngest and first Black poet laureate. Her new book Reparations Now! discusses America's history of Black oppression, and asks for more than monetary repairs.

September 08, 2021
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