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Opinion | Saying Goodbye to My Brilliant Friend, the Poetry Critic Helen Vendler
She was a poet who didn’t write poetry, but felt it like a poet.
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Helen Vendler, ‘Colossus’ of Poetry Criticism, Dies at 90
In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering.
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The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most...
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Gylan Kain, 81, a Founder of the Last Poets and a Progenitor of Rap, Dies
He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem...
