Poetry News

An uproar over Britain's unawarded Forward Prize minimizes the duty felt by the bards among us.

The Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction and young readers' literature.

Author Devajit Bandyopadhyay and Madhabi Mukherjee at the launch of Binodini Rachanasamagra at Starmark, South City and Satyajit Ray's sketch of Binodini Dasi.

DURING the prologue to the centenary of the start of the First World War we have received some incredible stories from Bugle readers, many of whom have only recently found out about ancestors who were involved in the fighting by working through the arduous task of family history.

For its third year, Queen's Park is hosting outdoor family movies throughout the summer.

Lynn Evans, headteacher, with staff and pupils from Abbey Park Middle School together with the Mayor of Pershore, councillor Tony Rowley, and veterans from Pershore & District Branch Royal British Legion & Royal Naval Association.

Rebecca Lappa, who performs next Tuesday and Thursday on Red Deer's Ross Street Patio, drew on atmospheric poems written by England's 19th-century poet laureate Lord Alfred Tennyson as inspiration for songs on her latest CD.

The sublime intelligence of Japanese life is traditionally encapsulated in the highly compressed poetry called the haiku , one that doesn't allow for words that are not filled with meaning.

"Wind and Tree" features soloist Megumi Eda, joined by 17 dancers including Abe Abraham, Caitlin Abraham, Mina Lawton, Kevin Petite , and Jake Warren.

If you think intense training and fierce competition is just for jocks, the high-energy, hardworking poets on the Slam Asheville Youth team will change your mind.

The governor's office announced Friday that Valeria Macon will be the state's new poet laureate.

In 2012, Ziba Perez Zehdar re-discovered zines, those little anti-authoritarian pieces of self-published paper long printed by everyone from science fiction fans to early LGBT activists to punk rockers and the Riotgrrrls.

The Wollongong Writers Festival will be bigger and better this year, with the community encouraged to get involved in workshops across the city.

I noticed that the curriculum for my English class next fall includes developing a web page.

When a new poet published by Faber & Faber starts using ampersands in his poems, you know something is afoot.

The same revolutions within a narrower sphere had place in ancient Rome; but the actions and forms of its social life never seem to have been perfectly saturated with the poetical element.

The annual Roundhouse Poetry Slam returns for 2014, as part of Summer Sessions, offering young artists aged 16-25 from across the UK the chance to compete for the title of Roundhouse Poetry Slam Champion.

Friday Night Dialogues at the Library and the Shelter Island Poetry Project will present "Friends of Frank: Frank O'Hara and the Poets of the New York School" on July 18 at 7 p.m. Once upon a time in New York City in the 1950s, there was a perfect storm of poetry, art, wit and style that completely transformed the postwar landscape of American ... (more)

Type Riders II Amy Tingle, left, and Maya Stein write poems on their typewriters using the phrase "jump for joy" as their inspiration and titles.

Prophetstown celebrates Thoreau with Poetry Night Prophetstown State Park will be holding its first Open Nature Poetry Night.