In West African art and culture, the image of a long-necked bird with its head turned backwards to take an egg off its back is the symbol of a well-known proverb in the Akan language of Ghana, which teaches that in order to move forward, one must first...
Eryn Green, a doctoral candidate at the University of Denver, has been named the winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, awarded by the Yale University Press.His prize-winning manuscript, “ERUV,” was selected by poet Carl Phillips,...