Helen Edison Lecture: Yusef Komunyakaa
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K-12 Educational Standards

Standards for Grade(s): 11-12

Literature, Language Arts, Reading

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

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California State Board of Education Content Standards

 

First Aired: 11/19/2001
58 minutes

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. (#5640)