by kwamepoet@gmail.com | May 26, 2023 | Media Coverage
“Kwame Alexander delivers us a powerful and intimate memoir-in-verse. Emily Dickenson once said, “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.” Alexander works his life into his poetry to help us reflect on our own lives. A memoir in a book of poetry — a most sublime...
by kwamepoet@gmail.com | May 26, 2023 | Media Coverage
“Offers a refreshing masculine vulnerability that is rarely seen.” The Washington Post reviews Why Fathers Cry at Night.
by kwamepoet@gmail.com | May 24, 2023 | Media Coverage
“We sometimes find poems in the strangest and most uncomfortable places,” Alexander writes in this tender memoir, employing poetry, prose, letters and recipes to tell stories of love and grief. The New York Times Book Review features Why Fathers Cry at Night in New...
by kwamepoet@gmail.com | May 23, 2023 | Media Coverage
Kwame joins WNYC’s All of It host Alison Stewart to discuss his new memoir, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances, which tells the story of his parents, and his own journey as a father.
by kwamepoet@gmail.com | May 23, 2023 | Media Coverage
Poets & Writers weekly installment of Ten Questions features Kwame Alexander, whose new book, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances, is out now from Little, Brown and Company.
by kwamepoet@gmail.com | May 23, 2023 | Media Coverage
“From the second we are born, the experience with food is connected to being held, the warmth of our mother’s skin, her soothing voice. Scientists say that all these experiences are encoded in our infant nervous system as a single event of idyllic...
