POETRY

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is co-founder of the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the author of five works of poetry

This British-Nigerian poet, still in her twenties, has already established herself as one of the most compelling literary talents of her generation

In our ongoing commitment to highlight voices that expand the boundaries of poetic expression, filmpoetry.org turns its focus to the extraordinary work of Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, a multidisciplinary artist whose poetry transcends conventional form and function. The Multifaceted Artist Referred to as “The Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa,” Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi stands […]

W. S. MERWIN, a formidable American poet who for more than 60 years labored under a formidable poetic yoke: the imperative of using language — an inescapably concrete presence on the printed page — to conjure absence, silence and nothingness- received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Shadow of Sirius. His many works of poetry […]