“The poets of our age have a lot of responsibility,” wrote a 24-year-old Robert Morgan to Russell Banks and William Matthews, his editors and compatriots in a literary uprising that was taking place on U.S. college campuses in the 1960s. “It’s up to us to make sure poetry doesn’t become a luxury, something like fine […]
Maria Hummel
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Moving pictures
Moving picturesIn 1967, when the images of Appalachian coal miners had become icons for national poverty, Canadian documentary maker Hugh O’Connor set foot on Hobart Ison’s land in rural Kentucky to take pictures of a tenant, and was murdered by the landowner. Fed up with media representation and misrepresentation of Appalachian culture, Ison had vowed […]
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Trying to tell you something
In his introduction to The Yellow Shoe Poets, an anthology of poets published by Louisiana State University Press since 1964, George Garrett claims that the second half of the century has seen “a virtual uprising, a revolution in poetry, the likes of which has not been seen since the final decade of the rule and […]