Blogging & Linking to Poetry Foundation Site in 2011

Yesterday, I was writing about how I've relied on the Poetry Foundation site in my blogging in 2011. Below, I've compiled a list of blog entries where references and links to the site were used this past year. I had an especially good time looking through the Poetry archives for info on Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, and other African American poets.


• December 28: The Poetry Foundation Site as a Vital Resource

• November 29: Responses to Margaret Walker's "For My People"

• November 28: 10 Poems by Margaret Walker

• November 21: Places Poets Love

• November 14: Online responses to poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts  

• November 6: 10 Poets who gained widespread attention in their 20s

• November 4: A Prelude to Rita Dove's Anthology?

• October 1: Summarizing a Worldview in Nikki Giovanni’s “Nikki-Rosa” by Cindy Lyles 

• September 30: Reginald Dwayne Betts's 'Big Word' Love Poem & the Poetry Podcast 

• July 31:  Working out, listening to Robert Creeley

• July 22: 5 Animated poems by African American poets

• July 15: Smartphones and Black Poetry: Some Preliminary Impressions
• July 14: Langston Hughes in Poetry magazine
• July 14: "We Real Cool" & "For My People" First Appeared in Poetry Mag.

• July 13: The Journey of Margaret Walker's "For My People"
• July 12: 4 Langston Hughes poems from 1926 Poetry Magazine

• June 23: Calvin Forbes Shines Some light on Raccoon in Poetry Magazine 

• June 21: Pleasant Surprises: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nikki Giovanni & Poetry Magazine  

• June 19: 20 Poems (with Audio) by Black Poets on the Poetry Foundation Site 

• June 3: Poetry as Passport: Getting to Other Worlds through Translations

• May 30: 150+ Years of Antislavery Poems by Black Poets

• April 14: Rita Dove Addresses "Racist Selectivity"

• April 2: 10 Poems by Kevin Young

• April 2: How Public are Poets? 

• March 14: Nikky Finney, Nikki Giovanni, & the Black Poetry Best Seller List