Friday, August 16, 2013

A Notebook on bad men in poetry

2015
• August 28: Bad Men and Black Poetry
• May 9: 6 reasons why poets like bad boys 
May 7: Poetry, bad men, and intellectual histories 
• March 8: Black Poets, Bad Men, and Creativity

2013
• October 22: Is Jack Johnson book a sports book in verse or verse about sports
• September 13: Poet Marilyn Nelson's good idea: Adrian Matejka's "shadow boxing" poems          
• August 29: Things we need to know prior to reading poetry by Cornelius Eady, Tyehimba Jess & Adrian Matejka   
• August 16: A brief timeline of bad men in poetry 
• June 14: Reading Cornelius Eady, Tyehimba Jess & Adrian Matejka...together 
• April 22: Adrian Matejka's, Ralph Ellison's, and Quentin Tarantino's Battle Royals
• April 19: Other Bad Men: Frank X. Walker's Byron De La Beckwith poems 
• April 2: Cornelius Eady's, Tyehimba Jess's & Adrian Matejka's Bad Men
• March 14: 30 volumes of poetry leading to The Big Smoke 
• March 9: ARCs: Works by Kevin Young, Tyehimba Jess & Adrian Matejka    
• February 12: Cornelius Eady, Brutal Imagination, and Crime Poetry   
• January 29: Amiri Baraka and the "controversial" tag

2012
• October 9: From Gwendolyn Brooks to Chief Keef   
• August 28: 25 poems by or about black men
• August 17: Bad Men as Muses for Black Poets  
• August 3: Ishmael Reed's Funny Ex-slave Poem

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