Langston Hughes chez Pierre Seghers : récit d’un engagement poétique by Annick Ettlin

“…It examines the choices and circumstances leading to the publication of several of Hughes’s works: his first autobiography, a volume of poetry (translated by François Dodat in 1955), a book in the series “Poètes d’aujourd’hui” and two anthologies in 1962 and 1966. …”
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From Book to Playlist: How Open-Access Audio Archives are Renewing the Poetry Collection by Abigail Lang

“…Listening closely to two 1972 readings and examining a reading program for a 1941 reading at the YMHA preserved in the Zukofsky archives, I establish that such sources offer valuable insights into the work, expose a series of criteria used by poets to compose their readings, show how a poet can repurpose old poems in renewed contextures, and ultimately observe that approaching Zukofsky through his audiotexts tilts his work decisively toward song. …”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“… Let us begin with an unfortunate fact: Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí is one major writer that is hardly anthologized. The problem could not have been that he wrote in Yorùbá because Fágúnwà is far more anthologized than he is. …”
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