Poetry News

Sherman-Jollis recently completed her sophomore year at East Chapel Hill High School.

The easy answer is lead singer. But watching him guide his seven-member band through its set at Frederik Meijer Gardens amphitheater was more like watching a type of sonneteer at a musical poetry slam.

Let's get one thing straight, though. Valerie Macon did nothing wrong, nothing to warrant the unflattering attention her recent appointment to be the state's poet laureate shone on her.

On Wednesday, July 30, 9:00am-12:00 noon, the Cobscook Community Learning Center will offer "Fun With Words! Poetry for Kids," with instructor Ally Talbot.

Roman was Russian or maybe Ukrainian. The folks of his town went from one to the other with each shift of the restless border.

A NEW arts event launches tomorrow in Bournemouth. Summer Live - Bournemouth Square is a programme of art and live music for the town centre.

Organised by United Press, the competition aims to get the creative juices flowing and encourage people to pen a poem about the town in which they live.

Korean author Bae Su-ah's novel "Cheolsu" will be published in English in the United States next April, LTI Korea announced.

Local cowboy poet Sonny Ashley will donate all the proceeds from his CD of cowboy poems to the cause of Izzy Brogdon, the little girl who survived a medical crisis this spring.

Members of the Northeast Louisiana Poetry Society honored Charline Brown with a celebration on June 14. Brown, a founding member of the original Monroe Poetry Society, was also instrumental in forming the Northeast Louisiana Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women.

The Broadwalk Centre, in Station Road, Edgware, is inviting people to enter its poetry competition based on the events during the war.

And I saw something interesting--you know, that Larkin poem , "They f- you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to, but they do"?--the other day Rachel Maddow NYT almost commits accidental haiku: "They frizz your hair, these humid days.

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The Belfast Poetry Festival has been awarded a $1550 grant from the Waldo County Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

Larry thinks all poetry is local. The place you are enters your voice and shapes your poems.

This book is a must-read for all Khushwant Singh fans. One of the most celebrated and controversial writers of India has left behind a literary legacy that will be cherished for decades to come.

The New Museum is presenting the first museum-wide exhibition in New York City to feature contemporary art from and about the Arab world.

Earlier this summer, after riding my bike along the Greenbelt in South Portland, I pit stopped at Bug Light Park to take a break and watch the waves and kite flyers.

Carl Sandburg's poetry impressed me when I was a student at Johnson County High School.

Devizes School poetry winners Sophie Wilson, left, Lucy Maher and Ben Brown with teachers Helen Carpenter, left and Susanna Mountcastle Choices included popular favourites such as Rudyard Kipling's If, Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and writers such as Maya Angelou and Brian Patten.