Poetry News

Graywolf Press published the year's top-selling poetry book, Elizabeth Alexander 's presidential long poem : "Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration." Poetry Foundation compiled a list of the Bestselling Contemporary Poetry of 2009 list, a sales glimpse at a genre with a small, dedicated audience.

Martene Kwiatkowski, 48, recently published a 117-page book of poetry in which she shares nuggets of wisdom born out of her life experiences.

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You are likely to be outmatched, however, if the poet you are up against is Alice Quinn.

When President Obama flew to Oslo last week to collect his Nobel Peace Prize, his in-flight reading probably did not include the British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy 's new poem "The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009." Times Topic: Poetry and Poets The poem, published in the magazine Radio Times , begins with a buzzard not in a pear tree in ...

A Nobel prize winner has been appointed as the new professor of poetry at Essex University .

Renowned poet Cecilia Woloch will give a reading of her recent works at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.

Nobel laureate Derek Walcott turns his back on Oxford University to take up a poetry professorship at the University of Essex Derek Walcott, who will take up the post of professor of poetry at Essex University.

"The trained hand does not forget its skill, nor can we lay the precision and speed aside: strength we have, and courage in the acetylene will." The diminutive, dark-haired Marin jeweler Kate Ellen recites the line from poet Edna St.

Brash, raw and honest, the Ill List invitational poetry slam features some of the top wordsmiths from around the country.

George Watsky, poetry-slam star of the one-man show "Where the Magic Happens,'' is pursuing a career in acting and writing.

The University of Oxford has announced that it plans to introduce online voting for the 2010 election for the position of Professor of Poetry .

Bishop Paul Hendricks was at a Carshalton secondary school to launch a book of religious poems written by students.

A $1,000 grand prize is being offered to the last poet standing in a contest sponsored by the Celestial Arts Society.

Urbana High School student Bobby Miller makes a face while trying to recall a verse during Friday afternoon's Poetry Out Loud competition at the high school.

Maureen Plenderleith, 79, has completed a collection of more than 50 poems. Called The Ink is Dry, the collection includes poems on an array of themes from Maureena s 12 great-grandchildren to artwork by Cezanne.

Al Gore begins his latest snake-oil climate change book with a self-written poem: One thin September soon A floating continent disappears In midnight sun Vapors rise as Fever settles on an acid sea Snow glides from the mountain Ice fathers floods for a season A hard rain comes quickly Unknown creatures Take their leave, unmourned Horsemen ready ...

El rio me lo dijo, me lo dijo el rio is a collection of poems, fruits of exposure with nature, people, places and things.

THE grieving mother of Rifleman Phil Allen has penned her own personal tribute to the fallen hero as she finalises arrangements for his funeral service on Tuesday .

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.