Nathaniel Mackey has been named the winner of Yale’s 2015 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, joining a list of past winners that includes such luminaries as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, E.E. Cummings, and Marianne Moore.
The collection includes behind-the-scenes photographs and posed photographs depicting actors Eddie Anderson, Lena Horne, and Rex Ingram, as well as other cast members.
Ben Glaser recently published an article in PMLA 129 no. 3 (May 2014), “Folk Iambics: Prosody, Vestiges, and Sterling Brown’s Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American Negroes,” making use of materials in the James Weldon Johnson Collection related to Johnson’s Book of American Negro Poetry.
Carolyn Dekker’s essay, “Jean Toomer, Sojourner: Striking Experience in the South and Southwest,” appears in the current issue of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
