Harryette Mullen

Sep 6, 2024 | jewishcurrents.org | Harryette Mullen

In childhood, I coveted images of an intrepid figure rescuing people in distress. I admired the intensity of Superman’s focus as he shot through the air toward those in need; I spent hours thumbing through a sanitized history of the US civil rights movement, poring over images of Martin Luther King, Jr. as he shepherded a crowd through the streets of Montgomery; and I was convinced that there was no act greater than Moses’s parting of the Red Sea to usher the Israelites out of slavery.

Apr 2, 2024 | newsroom.ucla.edu | John Harlow |Harryette Mullen

Over four decades, poet Harryette Mullen has been feted for the vivacity, humor and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of her verse. Yet in her forthcoming collection, composed during the pandemic, the esteemed UCLA professor has carried her wit and puzzle-box playfulness to new heights — literally into the sky. Her new anthology, Regaining Unconsciousness, will be published by Graywolf in 2025 and will surely be one of poetry’s most talked-about books of the year.

Dec 5, 2023 | theparisreview.org | Harryette Mullen

In early March of 2021, Louise Glück visited Claremont McKenna College in Southern California, where I teach. Because of COVID, she was afraid to fly on a small plane to our regional airport, so I drove her myself from Berkeley, where, for some years, she rented a house during the winters.

Sep 27, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Harryette Mullen

About this Poet Harryette Mullen is a poet and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing and African American literature. Her collections of poetry include S*PeRM**K*T (1992), Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002), Recyclopedia (2006), Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka...

Sep 8, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Harryette Mullen

About this Poet Harryette Mullen is a poet and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing and African American literature. Her collections of poetry include S*PeRM**K*T (1992), Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002), Recyclopedia (2006), Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka...