Camille Dungy at the Poetry Foundation

Camille Dungy

What’s the word for wonderful in your language?

Global capitalism is nothing new. Through history, the need to maintain the flow of capital has driven the diasporas of people, languages, and, yes, poetry. Whoever thinks contemporary North American poetry is provincial or isolationist hasn’t read the four poets I discuss in this post.

Read the entire post here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/1863/