The New York Times – Music:
Part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, he went on to reclaim a leading musician of the psychedelic era as a distinctly African American artist.
Category: Poetry and Poets
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Ellen Burstyn on Her Favorite Books and Her Love of Poetry
The New York Times – Film:
“Of course, at 93 I am not as good at memorizing as I used to be,” the Oscar-winning actress and author says. “But it is good exercise.”
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Rashidah Ismaili Has Hosted the Legendary Salon d’Afrique in Her Harlem Home for Decades
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The writer Rashidah Ismaili honors a storied literary tradition by hosting Salon d’Afrique, a creative gathering for international Black luminaries, in her Harlem home.
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Rashidah Ismaili Has Hosted the Legendary Salon d’Afrique in Her Harlem Home for Decades
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The writer Rashidah Ismaili honors a storied literary tradition by hosting Salon d’Afrique, a creative gathering for international Black luminaries, in her Harlem home.
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In Death, Poet Andrea Gibson Gets a Film That Celebrates Life
The New York Times – Film:
“Come See Me in the Good Light” follows the writer and their wife as they experienced the pain of cancer and also the joy of living.
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‘Come See Me in the Good Light’: The Sweetness After a Terminal Diagnosis
The New York Times – Film:
The film chronicles the poet Andrea Gibson’s final year of living with cancer and trying to make every second count.
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My First Love Ghosted Me. It’s Not What You Think.
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
I had lost faith in the universe — until an apparition of my smiling, 16-year-old late ex-boyfriend appeared.
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My First Love Ghosted Me. It’s Not What You Think.
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
I had lost faith in the universe — until an apparition of my smiling, 16-year-old late ex-boyfriend appeared.
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The Love Poem Andrea Gibson Wrote for Their Widow…and for You
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley were two poets in love. After Gibson’s death, Falley is figuring out what that love looks like now.