Poetry News

It's all about the image. Patrolman First Class Kirk Marino, left, and Patrolman Casey Breidigan help keep the peace at the 2013 Lewes Polar Bear Plunge in Rehoboth Beach.

The morning of Saturday, March 22 will be a time of poetry and music at USC Union during the Upcountry Literary Festival.

The writer's work tells the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to the US to pursue a college education.

Jennifer Falu has made poetry her life! Raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Jennifer attended P.S. 44, JHS 113 and Benjamin Banneker Academy.

Three local published poets will come to the Eagle Harbor Book Company at 157 Winslow Way, Bainbridge Island at 3 p.m., March 16. Joannie Stangeland, Annette Spaulding-Convy and Jenifer Browne Lawrence will read their work and host a conversation with fellow poetry enthusiasts.

Scott Wiggerman, a renowned Austin-based poet , will present his workshop 'Sex, Gender , Desire: Exploring Queer Identity through Poetry and Art' on March 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Los Gatos poet laureate Erica Goss invites the public to join her at a St. Patrick's Day celebration of Irish poetry on March 17 at C.B. Hannegan's, 208 Bachman Ave. Poetry readings will coincide with an open mic event that starts at 5 p.m. during Hannegan's annual St. Pat's party.

The West Virginia state semifinal and final rounds of the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest take place this weekend at Culture Center Theater.

On Thursday, April 17 pens and keyboards will meet brushes and cameras during "Broadsides: Poetry off the Shelf," a National Poetry Month celebration at the Alliance for the Arts.

Based on who you discuss things with, the Bible is the runaway top book in distribution with five to six billion copies in circulation.

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Fayetteville will be officially celebrating National Poetry Month for the first time this April with poetry events for all ages, thanks to a joint effort from the Fayetteville Public Library, KUAF, and local poet Houston Hughes.

I started making candles at my farm as a gift for friends and family who visited, because I wanted them to leave with a special keepsake from my home.

WWI THEME: Poet John Challis with pupils at Bishop Barrington School on a WW1 project, pictured here talking to Abigail Edwards, 13, and Evie Bushby, 14. John Challis spent time with 13 students at Bishop Barrington School, in Bishop Auckland , helping them produce poetry and artwork to accompany paintings and a collage already completed.

ONCE, READING was a like a superpower, or a radioactive element. It could be shared to empower, or weaponized to control.

Fresh Air 's classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz is also a poet. He recently published a poem about friendship and loss on Poets.org.

Lots of former black activists made the move into elected office, but the late Chokwe Lumumba, a one-time nationalist, assumed office without moderating or distancing himself from his previous views.

Claremont Graduate University in Southern California announced Wednesday that 62-year-old Afaa Michael Weaver of Somerville, Mass., has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book of verse "The Government of Nature."

A little later with the prompt today, but that's only because I'm shaking off a poetry hangover from last night in Hickory, North Carolina.

Caleb Stacy, a Mingo County native and a senior English student at West Virginia University, is one of 10 students selected to attend the 2014 Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets.