Poetry News

The intersection of food and poetry is a natural one: both are subjects that concern themselves with experience, memory, sense, and self.

The 2014 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival will feature dozens of internationally acclaimed poets when it returns to Newark this year.

For believing in God's message , Angela Filla was able to write her amazing book of poetic homage to His grace and mercy entitled "Poems from the Heart ."

Poetry Bomb and Poet's Corner When: Starting at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 24 Where: Turnip Green Creative Reuse and Scarritt-Bennett Center Technically, this event is titled "Poetry, Printmaking and Popsicles," but we thought "Poetry Bomb" would better get your attention.

Poetry Month continues! Emma Trelles is the author of Tropicalia , winner of the 2010 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Elizabeth "Betsy" Sholl has an MFA in poetry writing from Vermont College as well as an M.A. from the University of Rochester and a The Maine Women Write Book Club is open to the public.Purchase of Ms.

Joel McCandless and Jabriel Jones, second- and first-place winners, respectively, of recent Wenonah High School 'Word Up!' poetry contest.

Artist Izhar Patkin created rooms and walls of painted gauze in collaboration with poet Agha Shahid Ali.

Greg Simison, Moose Jaw poet, read some of his poetry at the meeting after city administration invited him to do so for National Poetry Month in April.

Louisiana poet Darrell Bourque has won the 2014 Louisiana Writer Award, given annually to recognize outstanding contributions to Louisiana's literary and intellectual life.

Most of us have friends who love to read and are intelligent, sensitive readers but simply "don't get" poetry.

ArtHaus presents its last Poetry Slam of the season Friday, April 25, at 8 p.m. This energetic spoken-word event is held at Decorah's Elks Lodge , and is sponsored by Dragonfly Books.

One of the most pernicious forms of violence enacted against women is the silencing of those who have been violated and abused.

This fall, the Atlantic Theater Company will present the world premiere of "Found," a show built around discarded notes and other ephemera that litter the streets.

This week in the city of Salinas Let nothing or no one come between us We will celebrate rhyme Well, it's about time! So the world can acknowledge Salinas -- Anonymous There is rhyme to the reason and reason to the rhyme.

The Friends of Glossop Station had their WW1 exhibit unveiled by Neill Manchee of the Royal British Legion and Jean Wharmby of the Legion's Womens Section Friends of Glossop Station has unveiled a poetry platform to commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War.

The O, Miami Poetry Festival has returned for the third time this April for a new round of events and projects that attempt to deliver a poem to all 2.6 million- plus residents of Miami-Dade County.

For Anya Ezhevskaya, art is worth the mess. In a unique live painting and poetry talk at College of the Mainland today, April 22 at 12:30 p.m. in the COM Fine Arts Building, she will demonstrate her seriously lighthearted approach to art.

What will bring locals out of their winter hibernation for a springtime Tuesday night? Wine and poetry is a good place to start.

April is National Poetry Month , first inaugurated in the United States by the Academy of American Poets in 1996.