The Broad Stage presents two United States poet laureates, both Pulitzer Prize winners, in Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith: Poetry at the Crossroads, on Thursday, May 20 at 6pm PT, presented in partnership with esteemed Los Angeles based publisher Red Hen Press. It is moderated by interdisciplinary creative, activist and educator Amber Flame.
Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith will share their thoughts on the crossroads of poetry that we now find ourselves in as a new generation of poets build on and elevate the form whose foundation is made of, in part, these two poets themselves.
Dr. Kate Gale, Co-Founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, said, Poetry is entered through the doors of the imagination; we see what has been done and we see what can be. Rita Dove and Tracy K. Smith have redefined what we can imagine.
Magic and art, myth and creativity. Part of why they go so beautifully together in stories is because it’s often hard to tell the difference. Poet or wizard? Musician or changeling? Spell or song? We don’t properly know where creativity comes from, so we revere it and distrust it in equal measure. That’s the thing about humans, isn’t it? We both love and fear anything we can’t put away in a cupboard at the end of the night or tuck into the bottom of our bag. It’s hard to say who treats the muse with more subjective awe consumer, or creator. Those who don’t create are mystified by those who do, imagining them plunging into an abyss and returning with art. But those who create are equally mystified. Why am I like this? Why can’t I stop?
19 mysteries and thrillers to lose yourself in this winter
By Lauren Daley Globe Correspondent,Updated January 28, 2021, 8:07 p.m.
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Whodunit? Why? How?
Nothing takes my mind so completely away from the twists and turns of reality like the dark twists and turns of a good mystery novel.
During the pandemic, Iâve fallen into every kind â from cozy mysteries to nail-biting suspense. Here are some titles to lose yourself in this winter. (All were published in 2020 unless otherwise noted.)
The incomparable
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,â is a stand-alone â not one of her cult-favorite Dublin Murder Squad books â so if itâs your first French, you wonât feel lost. Now living in Dublin, French is a Vermont native whose books have won fistfuls of awards. â
Daudi Abe
Daudi Abe is a Seattle-based professor, writer, and historian who has taught and written about culture, race, gender, education, communication, hip-hop, and sports for over 20 years. He is the author of the book
6 ‘N the Morning: West Coast Hip-Hop Music 1987-1992 & the Transformation of Mainstream Culture and
From Memphis and Mogadishu: The History of African Americans in Martin Luther King County,
Washington, 1858-2014 at www.BlackPast.org. His work has appeared in
The Stranger and
The Seattle Times, and he has appeared on national media such as MSNBC and
The Tavis Smiley Show. Abe holds an MA in human development and a PhD in education from the University of Washington. His forthcoming book is