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Helen Edison Lecture: Yusef Komunyakaa Posted by: uctelevision
Video duration: 3529 seconds Global video hits: 1158 Yusef Komunyakaa is known as a "jazz poet," a Southern writer and a "soldier poet." Author of nine books and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Komunyakaa sets a provocative stage by rejecting the "write what you know" model in favor of the defying "write what you are willing to discover" premise. Series: "Helen Edison Lecture Series" [6/2001] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 5640] Related: author, jazz, komunyakaa, poet, pulitzer |
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"Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa Posted by: georgem287
Video duration: 270 seconds Global video hits: 3815 A visual interpretation of Yusef Komunyakaa's famous Vietnam inspired poem "Facing It". Related: facing, it, komunyakaa, yusef |
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'the weight' - yusef komunyakaa's vietnam poetry Posted by: afamreport
Video duration: 73 seconds Global video hits: 455 Yusef Komunyakaa is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who served as a correspondent and editor for the military newspaper, The Southern Cross. "Camouflaging the Chimera" is from his second collection of works on the Vietnam War, Dien Cai Dau. Related: the, vietnam, weight, yusef |
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Yusef Komunyakaa "Birds on a Powerline" Posted by: zenflare
Video duration: 489 seconds Global video hits: 72 A great African American poet's poem Related: african, american, komunyakaa, literature, poetry, yusef |
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Facing It (Favorite Poem Project) Posted by: FavoritePoem
Video duration: 238 seconds Global video hits: 255 Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa read by Michael Lythgoe for FPP, 1999 Related: d.b., dc, facing, it, komunyakaa, lythgoe, michael, poem, poetry, roderick, stress, traumatic, veteran, vietnam, war, washington, yusuf |
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Prisoners (Vietnam war) Posted by: jaksaidit92
Video duration: 161 seconds Global video hits: 242 This is my first video, orginally a English assignment based on the poem Prisoners by Yusef Komunyakaa. Music is Clubbed to Death by Rob Dougan I used a number of videos which i do not take credit for, Ive just edited it all together. enjoy Related: clubbed, death, douggan, komunyakaa, prisoners, rob, to, yusef |
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The Globed Fruit (PoetryII) Posted by: veryclassy
Video duration: 191 seconds Global video hits: 185 Poems Heard: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" - Langston Hughes "You Begin" - Margaret Atwood "My Father's Love Letters" - Yusef Komunyakaa "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" - Dylan Thomas *All poems seen courtesy of The Seagull Reader Poems* Related: atwood, dylan, fruit, gentle, globed, good, hughes, komunyakaa, langston, night, poetry, rivers, thomas, yusef |
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FOR LOST WORDS: Saigon Bar Girls-Returning 1975 Posted by: Vdimura
Video duration: 463 seconds Global video hits: 399 The 7th and 8th scenes of Vince di Mura's spoken word/jazz rock fusion oratorio. Based on the poetry of Yusef komunyakaa. Performed on March 9th, 2008 at the Millhill Playhouse in Trenton NJ. With Jasper Mcgruder and Annielee Moffett. Related: di, jazz, keyboards, komunyakaa, mura, poetry, vince, yusef |
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LE XUAN from FOR LOST WORDS Posted by: Vdimura
Video duration: 387 seconds Global video hits: 90 Concert version of Vince di Mura's spoken word/jazz oratorio, FOR LOST WORDS. 5th scene. Based on the Vietnam poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa Related: di, for, jazz, keyboards, komunyakaa, lost, mura, vince, words, yusef |
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Trailer for Common Ground New Orleans Poetry Relief Posted by: beatnow65
Video duration: 134 seconds Global video hits: 550 Kalamu Ya Salaam trumpets and recites from his poem Seven Haikus for Old Orleans with clips of participating poets and Common Ground Volunteers. This forthcoming film to benefit Common Ground Relief is produced by T.R. Congdon with Laki Vazakas and will feature numerous poets, Katrina survivors, and volunteers from Common Ground Relief. (www.commongroundrel ief.org) Related: amiri, baraka, carolyn, coleman, donald, dove, espada, ferlinghetti, forche, hall, komunyakaa, l., martin, rita, wanda, yusef |
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Facing It Posted by: nlempert
Video duration: 142 seconds Global video hits: 94 PoetryMattersNow.org presents Alicia Ostriker reading Yusef Komunyakaa's poem at New England College Related: alicia, komunyakaa, ostriker, poem, poetry, war, yusef |
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Ian Noble drawings - Yesuf poem Posted by: nobleillusions
Video duration: 81 seconds Global video hits: 52 My drawings from the poem "Blue light lounge sutra for the performance poets at harold park hotel" by Yusef Komunyakaa. I think he wrote it about performing poetry but I liked the ideas for playing guitar. Music from the Allman Brothers Related: drawings, ian, noble, poem, yesuf |
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Epistrophy Posted by: komunyakaa
Video duration: 20 seconds Global video hits: 144 What the hell is Ian thinking?! Related: elana, epistrophy, ian |
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