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Sunday Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa
This is my manifesto. Komunyakaa is ill, in a good way. Anyway, this is what I try to do when I write. I fail enough to know how difficult it is. Hope you guys enjoy this one.
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Mark Lennihan / AP The Tragedy of Biggie and Pac
If you know hip-hop, then you know the story of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (Biggie Smalls).
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Special for Saturday Afternoon: Listening to Michelle Rhee
I'm here on a Saturday, special edition. Hoping to drop something decent on you before I bid you adieu and TNC is back in full effect. I have two, maybe three posts to drop. Hope you guys enjoy. Here it goes:
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Prison, Justice Kennedy, The New Jim Crow
A few weeks ago I was a visitor at Arizona State University. I gave a few talks, spoke at the law school and went out to a detention center to speak with some young folks. I talked with the guards and staff that worked at the center.
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Joseph Brodsky on a Thursday morning
wanted to say something about the importance of poetry, and then I thought a good poem speaks for itself. I've come to regret a lot of what I feel I missed out on in public school.
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Iraq War Blues
Right now my moms is at an airport in Maryland waiting on a plane to send her to Germany, then to Kuwait, then to Iraq. She turns fifty years old on Thursday.
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The Blind Side, Ed O'Bannon and Big Time College Sports
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Was That Really A Dunk Contest
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Mark Lennihan / AP In Memory of Ms. Lucille Clifton
"I'm going to tell you folks about a woman that changed my life in ways that words couldn't really measure."
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Three Poets
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Last Dance and A Question of Freedom
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Emily Dickinson #67
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Free Agency and the Myths it Creates
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Lost in the City. Trapped in the public school reform debate.
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For the Fathers Work that We Forget
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Marion Barry, Ex-offenders and the Human Rights Bill of 1977
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Poetry's Back: Yusef Komunyakaa Reading "Facing It"
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Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP)
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Yao Might Be Done - Forever
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Madoff Gets 150 Years
