five year sentence (live, Sept. 2006)
Tyehimba Jess reading five year sentence live at the Donald B. MacMillan House, Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006.
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lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934 (live, Sept. 2006)
Tyehimba Jess reading lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934 live at the Donald B. MacMillan House, Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006.
stella: diminuendo (live, Sept. 2006)
Tyehimba Jess reading stella: diminuendo live at the Donald B. MacMillan House, Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006.
Tyehimba Jess Audience Q&A, Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006
Tyehimba Jess answers audience questions about his poetry following his reading at Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006.
Seven Reasons for Divorce
—Shang Dynasty (1765-1123 B.C.) Disobedience (to in-laws) I am the girl who wakes within an ocean, making winter melon soup for my mother-in-law, whose taste buds rise like thorns. Jealousy Your new maid returns to your room again. I am in the kitchen, chopping pork into a guillotine of red river. The stew smells like […]
Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
While the man is away telling his wife about the red-corseted woman, the woman waits on the queen-sized bed. You’d expect her quiet in the fist of a copper statue. Half her face, a shade of golden meringue, the other half, the dark of cattails. Her mouth even— too straight, as if she doubted her […]
Victoria Chang Q&A on form
Victoria Chang, author of the collection Circle, discusses how she determines the form a poem will take.
Victoria Chang Q&A on a poem she wishes she’d written
Victoria Chang, author of the collection Circle, discusses a poem she wishes she’d written, Song, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly.