Spoken Word: A Cultural History Cecilia Vicuña Emily Berry’s latest collection takes

Emily Berry’s latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined

in collaboration with programmer Ian Sommerville

award-winning poet Nicole Sealey revisits the investigation in a book that redacts the report

which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969

this work reclaims the visceral potency of poetry—it is food

Spoken Word: A Cultural History Cecilia Vicuña Emily Berry’s latest collection takesJoshua Bennett In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for the Obamas, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin Manuel Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work in progress that would soon revolutionize American theater. That meeting is but one among many in the trajectory of Bennett's young life, as he rode the cresting wave of spoken word through the 2010s. But in this book, he is not