Joy Harjo was named Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress this week, making history as the first Native American to be selected for the post.
Tag: Poetry
Ms. Muse: Feminist Love Poems
In this edition of Ms. Muse, four feminist poets write and talk about queerness, happiness, genderless sex and imagining change—personally and politically.
Ms. Muse: What Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie’s Womanist Poems Tell Us About Love, Language and Race in America
“I don’t think I can isolate what I need as a writer from what I need as a Black woman, mother, wife—which is to live… And to know that my children have a future. And to know that my husband will not be hunted down.”
Poetry for the Rest of Us
I think it is safe to say that my fire for poetry has been re-ignited. With all of these incredible collections, how could it not be? These are poems for understanding, compassion, anger and resistance.
Ms. Muse: Patricia Spears Jones Fights Patriarchy and Racism with Feminist Poetry
“If the idea of the human is to be truly re-made, then women will do the making.” In this installment of Ms. Muse, acclaimed poet Patricia Spears Jones opens up about growing up in the segregated South, the literary world’s ageism and Eve’s resistance—and shares three new poems.
Ms. Muse: Amy King on the Power of Stories and the Weight of the Current Political Moment
For this installment of Ms. Muse, award-winning poet and author and VIDA co-founder Amy King opens up about learning to speak up and step up—and shares three previously unpublished poems with Ms. readers.
Ms. Muse: Mary Oliver’s Escape
The fact that this master poet, in the last decade of her life, felt inspired by other women writers to be “braver”—and worked to write those new poems—suggests that Mary Oliver finally exited the building that had once sucked all the air out of her body, and escaped that “broken house” of her childhood once and for all.
POEM: The Universe, a Woman
They say that when woman is angry
she devours the whole world.
They are wrong, of course –
she devours the entire universe.
Ms. Muse: Liliya Yamkina’s Love Song
She longs for the snowy tundra, folk tales around the bonfire, her magic being needed. Isolated, she feels forgotten. But in her apartment, she keeps a notebook in a closet, and in that notebook, she writes love songs—love songs for the tundra.
Ms. Muse: What Happens When You Give a Girl a Pen
This is what can happen when you ask a girl to tell a story.