Poetry News Archives

Thiruvananthapuram : Eminent Malayalam poet Kadammanitta Ramakrishan died at a private hospital in Pathanamthitta district on Monday, family sources said. via The Hindu

Helen's Book Case Posted: 3/30/2008 [Viewed 5 times] Categories: Entertainment When I read the name, John Lithgow, I knew immediately that his book was one that I must have. via Texomaland

“Man: In a fist fight between you and Jarvis Cocker, who'd win? Me: Er... I've never met him, but from the pictures I've seen, I'd have to fancy my chances. Man: He's outside. ”

'When you told people in Huddersfield you were a poet didn't you get your head kicked in?" This question, punted at Simon Armitage, by a character called Spaz, occurred at a book signing in New Zealand. via The Belfast Telegraph

“Although most people accept that poetry has a vital role in personal as well as national life, these findings show a depressing level of ignorance”

A British survey suggests a third of Britons cannot correctly identify the profession of playwright William Shakespeare. via Political Gateway

“I do not find them sad. They are a resting place, a meeting point for the meditation of the living.”

Deep leather armchairs, carpets and a guitar. Step into Patti Smith's living-room at a Paris art show opening this week for a rare glimpse into the 1970s punk rock diva's inner world over four decades. via Raw Story

“I stick out my tongue and catch crumpling spangles that taste of cistern water.”

It's hard to know where to start praising Larry Woiwode's new memoir "A Step From Death." Perhaps with the language - perfect, poetic, layered. via Myrtle Beach Online

' VMI will hold its first poetry symposium April 4-5. Friday evening readings by 2006 Pulitzer prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson and poet and Vietnam veteran Bruce Weigl will kick off the event, called "The ... via Rockbridge Weekly

Love your mom? Sing about it!

Mother's Day is on the horizon, and we've got a plan.

Last year, we asked readers to pen their odes to Mom in poetry. This year, we're taking it one step further: We want you to write an original song, an ode to Mom, and then sing it for us! Finalists will be featured on www.star-telegram.com in videotaped performances filmed at our downtown offices. Readers will be able to vote for their favorites online, and winners will receive iTunes gift cards.

Ready for the details? Read more

“What impresses me this year is the quantum leap in quality. The recitations gave me chills”

Champions from 15 schools across the state came together for a verbal showdown at the Redfern Art Center at Keene State College, to determine New Hampshire's representative at the Poetry Out Loud 2008 National ... via UnionLeader.com

“We are helping poetry, the Cinderella of the Arts, find her glass slipper.”

A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a religious poetry contest sponsored by Famous Poets. via News-Messenger

“This is a group that saves lives everyday”

Founder of the Council for Unity Bob DeSena, left, sees off some of organization's members at their offices in New York, Tuesday, March 4, 2008. via Buffalo News

Are you a cancer survivor or a family member or friend of one? Expressions of Healing, an eight-week workshop, can help you work through your feelings about the disease by using creative forms of expression ... via Post and Courier

“The sense of unknowing you feel at the end of a poem is not something you get and then get over. You just improve your ability to accept it. Then - ooh - you start really liking it. Then, you hope for it.”

Alice B. Fogel The window in the ceiling over my bed was full of light when I woke this morning. via SeacoastOnline

The theme for this year's AML Annual Meeting was "Scripture as Literature and Scripture in Literature."A This theme provided forA the usualA wide variety of papers, but the marked emphasis on scriptureA evoked ... via A Motley Vision

The winners of the Cornwall Poetry Competition, which Penryn College ran as part of St. via This is The West Country

Love your mom? Sing about it!

Mother's Day is on the horizon, and we've got a plan.

Last year, we asked readers to pen their odes to Mom in poetry. This year, we're taking it one step further: We want you to write an original song, an ode to Mom, and then sing it for us! Finalists will be featured on www.star-telegram.com in videotaped performances filmed at our downtown offices. Readers will be able to vote for their favorites online, and winners will receive iTunes gift cards.

Ready for the details? Read more

“I would write better poetry than that.”

"At Downing Street upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't Blair, He wasn't Blair again today, Oh how I wish he'd go away." Tory Shadow Business Secretary Alan Duancan says its Business Secretary John Hutton. via Anorak

“If society were to adopt both, we could avoid a barbaric future and live in harmony.”

At the young age of 25, Dr. Rev. Narayan Uchigaki began to seek the salvation of humanity by immersing himself in religious training, philosophy and science. via TechWeb.com

Shel Silverstein's first poetry collection Uncle Shelby's Zoo was re-released Tuesday as Don't Bump The Glump! and Other Fantasies, its U.S. publisher said. via The Post Chronicle

China's premier tried to woo rival Taiwan with poetry and business deals Tuesday but urged Taiwanese voters to reject a referendum on whether the island should join the United Nations, warning that tensions ... via Guardian Unlimited

“You want the audience to relate and connect to the experience”

Nicole Hernandez, 17, a senior at Woodburn Arts & Communications Academy, takes second place in the 2008 Poetry Out Loud state finals at Salem Public Library. via Statesman Journal

“We wish David all the best in his future endeavours.”

The director of a private Jewish school has resigned over a controversy about explicit poetry he posted on his personal Web site. via Canada.com

“It was a very strong set of entries this year”

A New Zealand writer who has spent much of his life working as a mail sorter has scooped New Zealand's largest literary prize. via The West Australian

“He not only works hard and laughs a lot, but he appreciates people and events by writing poems about them. He is definitely a jewel in my treasure box of characters, and I think he is why we are so close to each other in this group.”

A voracious reader with a 4,000 book library, Larry Hobart wrote this after looking at his collection of kerosene lamps and thinking about having to read by them in the days before he had electricity. via Statesman Journal

“I'd never had a chance to tell him how much I cared about him so I figured I'd write this poem about him”

Hillcrest High School freshman RaShun Barksdale's words left his fellow students with a choice. via Tribune-Times

“We didn't know how successful it would be”

You don't often think of cowpokes as poets, but there are some Shakespeares of the saddle who will be bringing their art to Alamo this week. via Contra Costa Times

As part of the monthlong Festival of Women in the Arts in Chemung County, the Zonta Club will present Readings by Women Who Write at 7 p.m. today, at The Zonta House, 742 W. First St. via Star-Gazette

“It's not that I'm prudish but I think the sort of imagery he uses about women is degrading and when the head of a school for young children displays them for all to see on his own Web site, it shows an appalling lack of judgment”

The board of two Jewish schools in Toronto is reviewing poetry posted on its director's personal Web site some parents complained was degrading and violent. via Daily India

“I am drawn to try to write about the ordinary world because I think really that there's some magic to be found in just about everything if you look at it closely”

EMORY, Va. Ted Kooser can describe the rainbow in a pan of dishwater and the diving porpoise in a notebook's spiral binding. via News Channel 11

“She would do half of [her performance] reciting her native motif poems which were pretty violent - not the sort of thing you could have gotten away with as a decorous Victorian gentlewoman. So that allowed her to really let go.”

A new Canadian chamber opera based on the life of the late writer, poet and actress Pauline Johnson will have its world premiere in Vancouver in two years. via CBC

“A great humanist, his songs explore the issues of spirituality, religion, sexuality, power, loneliness, interpersonal relations - simply put, the human condition.”

Music legend Leonard Cohen will bring his trademark smoky voice to the Montreal stage this June with his first performance in his hometown in 15 years. via Slam Sports

Richland County Public Library and the S.C. Poetry Initiative are teaming up to present a unique poetry series called A Cabaret of Words . via The State

“Regardless of the demands of the readers”

In preparation for April's National Poetry Month, students will perform in Oregon's statewide Poetry Out Loud competition Saturday at Salem Public Library's Loucks Lecture Hall. via Statesman Journal

A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a religious-poetry contest sponsored by the Sacramento Rainbow Poets, free to everyone. There will be 50 prizes totaling nearly $5,000. Entry deadline is Monday. Poems must be 21 lines or fewer; one entry per person. To enter:

Mail entry to Free Poetry Contest, 2935 Clay St., Sacramento, CA 95815 or online at www.rainbowpoets.com

Put your name and address on the page with your poem. Enclose a stamped return envelope for a list of winners. Read more

“Still there are women mired in ignorance and oppression. 'This should change... Let this Women's Day be an occasion to take a resolve... 'Let poet Bharati's call for women's empowerment. 'Let us uplift women”

From correspondents in Tamil Nadu, India, 02:31 PM IST AIADMK chief J. Jayalalitha turned to poetry to urge for women's empowerment in her message on International Women's Day Saturday. via India eNews

On March 16, Georgia poet and author Anthony Grooms will host the Second Annual state-wide Poetry OutLoud National Recitation Contest. via Dalton Daily Citizen

Ezra Pound's birthplace is a two-story white clapboard house surrounded with a wrought iron fence, surrounded again by the high hills of this central Idaho mountain town. via PR-inside.com

“To stay alive, you must slay silence / to pay homage to being, you must sing.”

Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford's Bita Prize for Literature and Freedom. via Stanford News Service

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent to a town in Galilee ... Luke 1:26 Mister Sun, I ask you not to rise; today's the day. via National Catholic Reporter

More than 100 performers shared their poetry, art, music and stories Saturday at the fourth annual Lee Earl Memorial Scholarship Cowboy Gathering in Lewiston. via Today's 6

“We aim for nothing less than a fellowship of salivating readers.”

When Salem's beloved Jackson's Books closed, the Willamette Store gamely stepped into the breach to provide some of the services and events Salem would be sure to miss otherwise. via Statesman Journal

“I thought nobody cared about poetry, but this show changed everything. It made people think about poets more than football”

Poetry Finds New Life On 'Million's Poet' by Staff The art of Nabati poetry in the Middle East has found new life thanks to the hit TV series "Million's Poet," which is watched by 70 million viewers. via The Post Chronicle

“We celebrate Black History Month because these people dared to make a difference.”

The last day of Black History month was celebrated in song, dance and spoken word on Friday as the students of Anderson Elementary School paraded across the stage wearing traditional African patterns and ... via Anderson Herald-Bulletin