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February 17, 2012

Lights and Shadows

Dewey Roscoe Jones and the Chicago Defender's poetic legacy.

		Poems to Celebrate Black History Month A selection of poems from the Poetry Foundation archive that explore the African-American experience.
		“Becoming Anne Bradstreet” Eavan Boland discusses one of the poets included in the Folger Shakespeare Library's chapbook Shakespeare's Sisters.
		New Impressions Raymond Roussel and the upside of crazy.
		2011 Year in Review In his annual report to the poetry community, John Barr reviews the programs and activities of the Foundation over the past year.

BEST SELLERS

Contemporary Best Sellers for the week of February 5, 2012

1 Head Off & Split
By Nikky Finney (Triquarterly)

2 Horoscopes for the Dead
By Billy Collins (Random House)

3 The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (paperback)
By Billy Collins (Random House)

4 Fast Animals
By Tim Seibles (Etruscan Press)

5 Ballistics
By Billy Collins (Random House)

More best sellers

Harriet: the Blog

Recent Podcasts

Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes reads poems from four of his books at the Art Institute of Chicago in January 2008.

February issue of Poetry

A.E. Stallings, Nate Klug, Rabindranath Tagore, Philip Levine, Lisel Mueller, D. Nurkse, and more.

Sign up to receive free Poetry for your book group

In celebration of National Poetry Month and the magazine’s centennial, free copies of the April 2012 issue of Poetry will be available to book clubs and reading groups that request them by March 23.