Poetry can unite people when all seems lost. The Conversation US has pulled together four articles from its archives that speak on the power of poetry.
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Listening-as-reading is a growing segment of the publishing market. Audiobooks revive ancient ways of storytelling and might get more people excited about books.
The rise in the popularity of Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, represents a prime opportunity for educators to use spoken word poetry in the classroom.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
It gets us nowhere to distinguish between page and stage poetry, except as terms in an analysis. There is bad and good on both sides. Both forms need to be kept alive and to flourish.
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Associate Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University
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Associate Professor of Literacy, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State University
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Instructor of Gender & Race Studies, University of Alabama
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Lecturer: photojournalism and digital media, Namibia University of Science and Technology
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature, University of the Western Cape
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James J. Stansell Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities, San Diego State University
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