Poetry News

Have you ventured out to a glowing coffee shop late at night, huddled over a steaming mug as an impassioned poet plays with words? Have you snapped your fingers and yelled "Spit, poet!" at the makeshift stage? Do you know what slam poetry is? "This is for the factory farmed chicken looking at where the sky used to be.

Just in time for winter, the theme for the latest round of poems on 11 Poetry Posts throughout the city is "We've got our love to keep us warm."

Deborah Grossman was the poet laureate of the City of Pleasanton from 2009 to 2011.

A Big Theorist takes issue with another Big Theorist's disagreement with a Mere Critic's comments on a Medium-Prestige Poet's poem about the impossibility of communication.

Bartleby Scrivener Poets: Will now meet at 1866 Rounders' Club at the Wamsutta Club on first Thursday each month 6:15-8 p.m., with sign-up and socializing 15 minutes beforehand.

The $7,500 Pegasus Award will be presented annually to the author of the best book-length works of criticism published in the prior calendar year.

It occurs to me that many of you may not know this because you don't live in the Twin Cities or are not Facebook Friends of the Mayor of Minneapolis, but the guy is very funny and creative and produces a lot of poetry, especially this time of year.

Any writer is grateful for attention, especially praise. I imagine that the late Anglo-American poet W.H. Auden would warm to Alexander McCall Smith, a lawyer-novelist of distinction, for his contribution to Princeton University Press's series "Writers on Writers."

Greg Kinzer, Austin College associate professor of English, will present a Sabbatical Series lecture, "Poetry as Alien Phenomenology," on Tuesday, October 2, at 4:30 p.m. in Wright Campus Center, Room 231.

I hope everyone had a fun and successful November of poeming. I know I did. Now, it's time to get back to our Wednesday poetic gatherings .

Over the next two weeks, the Pillsbury House Theatre will present a trio of new works as distinct as the artists who created them.

At least once a decade, the conversation about poetry gets bloody enough to inspire rubbernecking.

Poetry contest winner Allison Mercer with head teacher Alison Howarth and pupils Logan Howarth, Niamh Mercer, Spencer Mercer, Freya Norton and Bradley Price on the school's new stage.

The annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize will be presented Sunday, Dec. 8, at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats, 320 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach.

When I opened the mailbox and saw that my order from A Capella had arrived, I was as excited as a kid on Christmas morning.

Tenbury young poets went around the town reciting their poetry to shoppers. Theo Houtchin reads some of his poetry to Tenbury shoppers.

A bunch of flowers left by officials is seen at the foot of a bust of poet Qeisar Aminpur after the unveiling ceremony on December 2, 2013.

The All India Mushaira in memory of Mohan Lal Bhaskar by the MLB Foundation, organized at the campus of Manav Mandir Senior Secondary School, enthralled the lovers of Urdu poetry on Sunday evening.

An award-winning Flint dancer, poet and singer has begun working on her project, and she's reaching out to her supporters to help make that project a reality.

Collin Rossini of Main Road, Harwich will be selling his yearly collection of verses entitled Hats off to Harwich at Shoecraft in Dovercourt High Street for A 3. Mr Rossini said: "I have been doing this for about 15 years now and have raised thousands of pounds because I am totally in awe of the people risking their lives.