Poetry News

Editor's note: Tolu Ogunlesi is a blogger, newspaper columnist and the author of a collection of poetry, Listen to the geckos singing from a balcony and a novella, Conquest & Conviviality.

Poet Marcus Amaker and drummer Quentin Baxter are teaming up to record a new album due out in February.

This bedtime story of sleeping mermaids, dreaming genies, and stargazing wizards uses beautiful words and stunning illustrations to put a reader to sleep.

It's the time of year when we complain about the cold and bitter weather winter brings.

Tonight's poetry reading by Shara McCallum will be her first in Pittsburgh. Maybe it will be your first, too.

Boris D. Schleinkofer, who heads up Bellingham's weekly poetrynight, offered to "tell me everything there is to know about poetrynight's brand new venue."

Wilks Library: Book club meets every third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m.; Will host a monthly writers' group on the first Thursday of every month from 6-7 p.m. All writers welcome, no matter their experience.

Nearby and adjacent to Topanga's foothills north of Mulholland, Topangan Maggie Brammall was setting up the annual fundraiser for the Pacific Lodge Boys Home in Woodland Hills.

The University of Canberra has established an international poetry prize which celebrates the enduring significance of poetry to cultures everywhere in the world, and its ongoing and often seminal importance to world literatures.

"A Sonnet is a moment's monument," wrote Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Nowadays, we're more likely to monumentalize the fleeting moments of our lives via Facebook and YouTube.

The piece, a collaboration between composer David Grubbs and poet Susan Howe is a delicate sound collage, rich with layers, solemn, and mildly, comfortably disjointed.

Burt Murray will be the opening poet. The series is hosted and coordinated by Tara Betts and funded by Binghamton Center for Writers, the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University and Curcio Printing.

She is a poet and we know it: Sonia Sanchez, the award-winning poet and author of more than 20 books, is leading a workshop focusing on the art of the Haiku.

Billy Collins has spent decades popularizing poetry, and I, for one, am furious.

For this week's prompt, write an antique poem. It could be about or involve physical antiques.

BAM, a gutsy 62 year old, releases her new collection of poetry " Poetic Thoughts in the Keys of Happiness " , centered around past loves, acquaintances and friends.

Christina Barchetti, 35, died when her Ford Ka was hit by Calvin Craig Connah's BMW on the A541 between Wrexham and Mold, a jury has heard Today is the day when the future of our four regions will be decided as they meet with the WRU to call peace on their 'civil war' and discuss whether the future lies in the Pro 12 or Premiership The inaugural ... (more)

This is the first of several poems and a special historical video poem by Una Bruhns to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela, Father of Peace.

Asheville is in a long-term relationship with poetry, from the verses of Thomas Wolfe and the raucous '90s-era poetry slam days, to the work of LEAF in Schools & Streets and the Juniper Bends reading series.

In his own flicker-age, Sol Kent Carson had hundreds, maybe even thousands, of such poems scattered about his apartment on scratch paper or scribbled in charcoal on the back of the Belgian-linen canvases that carried a lifetime of paintings.