Poetry News Archives

THE 2008 Malvern Fringe Festival will deliver a month-long feast of entertainment starting with May Day in the Park, on Saturday, May 3. The first three Wednesdays sees a series of lectures running at The ... via Malvern Gazette

“The range of his works and theme is huge and yet so simple”

From correspondents in Delhi, India, 02:32 PM IST 'Pancham, you remember those monsoon days, when in the valley below the mountains, rail tracks made their way emerging out of the mist..' Poet, lyricist and ... via India eNews

I was recently in cool Vancouver to give a talk at a conference on Modern Punjabi Literature . via Sepia Mutiny

“Gary Snyder is in essence a contemporary devotional poet, though he is not devoted to any one god or way of being so much as to Being itself”

Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded ... via 680News

The Human Genome: Poems on the Book of Life. Photograph: thehumangenome.co.uk You were probably already aware that the universal alphabet - the one that actually counts - runs to only four letters: A, C, G, T. ... via MediaGuardian.co.uk

JESSICA DE KONINCK will be a featured reader at the Friends of the Library Poetry Night Series at 7:30 p.m. May 27 at at the Highland Park Public Library, 31 N. Fifth Ave. via Courier News

It's extremely difficult for a community college drama department to make a place for itself in an area where local theater is growing and healthy and production values are increasingly higher. via Inside Bay Area

The Gloucester City Cultural Arts & Heritage Society is holding an open mic tonight at King Street Espresso Bar. via CourierPostOnline

“I thought I was just writing down things that came into my mind.”

Poet and missionary Olivia Polite is author of "Unique and Divine Poetry." She doesn't remember much about that time and is reluctant to share some of her memories about her life before the coma, but she ... via The Post and Courier

Talented teenage writers were recognised in the Malvern Young Writer of the Year Award 2008. via This is Malvern

“I'm thrilled. There's been a lot of community support”

Musicians perform corridos written by local high school youth that won the University of Arizona Poetry Center corrido contest. via Caliente

“We saw it as an opportunity to showcase our own talents. There is always a group of pupils on our school grounds reciting poetry, and we believe that this kind of event was important to them. Some of them reminded me of my old days back in 1976”

The holding of smaller events as a build-up to Freedom Day celebrations has started. via Pretoria News

The Steam Heat Coffeehouse is hosting a free poetry night Friday. Poets include Miguel-Loredo Reyes of Woodburn, who will deliver spoken-word poetry on issues such as his relationship with his father and ... via Statesman Journal

If a child develops a bit of a runny nose, but seems otherwise healthy, it doesn't make a lot of sense to make a visit to the doctor, much less rush to the emergency room. via Akron Beacon Journal

“Iran is a big country and you need to deal with them diplomatically and with erudition”

By Manish Chand, New Delhi, April 22: Gas may take a while to flow between Iran and India through a tri-nation pipeline, but there is no stopping music and ideas that will mingle at a festival here next week, ... via Newkerala.com

“He contacted him and got him to agree to an interview.”

In one form or another, Minnesota State University has published a literary magazine for many years. via The Mankato Free Press

“They're not spoken about, not discussed except in quiet corners.”

In this impersonal age of chain stores and Internet retail, it's a treat to be "hand-sold" a book by a bookseller who has actually read and loved it. via AMNY

Poets in Borehamwood and the surrounding areas are being told to get their pens at the ready to enter a nationwide competition. via This is Local London

Published authors along with others will join Ohio University-Chillicothe students and other members of the community for "Poetry Day" April 22nd. via WCHI-AM Chillicothe

Poet Gary Geddes is this year's recipient of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence - a prize that recognizes British Columbia writers who have contributed to the development of literary ... via The Globe and Mail

“I wish they had more contests around here”

San Benito High School junior Josh Vega's "Polar Problem," which was awarded the U.S. Grand Prize in the Senior High School Art category at the 2008 International River of Words Youth Environmental Poetry and ... via Hollister Free Lance

No, it does not symbolize the dreaded computer virus. Mounted outside the Basel Museum of Antiquities, the nine-metre-high wooden structure suggests what the mythical Trojan Horse may have looked like. via Slam Sports

"THE NORTH END POEMS" BY MICHAEL KNOX Nick Macfarlane and his friends K, Scotty and Ronnie are four of the coolest characters to ever set foot in the dramatic world of poetry. via Myrtle Beach Online

“I once advised my children to read the works of Sadi and said that it is like a window to a new world, but they told me to go to the internet window to understand who is who in the world.”

World-famous filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami is convinced that one of the problems Iranians encounter in understanding poetry is that they pay too much attention to rhythm. via Tehran Times

“Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing...”

Today is the first national Poem in Your Pocket Day! Part of National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day has been celebrated every April in New York City, and this year has gone national--will you help make ... via Maritime Compass

VH1.com says it is giving away tickets to a special New York show starring Madonna to two poets who pen the best four lines about the famed pop star. via The Post Chronicle

“I've been writing for about 60 years”

Poetry. Not everyone likes to read it, and not everyone interprets it the same way. via Marshfield News-Herald

It's been published in 38 countries, translated into 42 languages, turned into an Oscar-nominated movie - and sold more than 10 million copies. via Ya Libnan

“Our GCSE options will encourage pupils to understand facts and figures about their environment.”

Comments Pupils will be able to gain 25 per cent of their marks in geography GCSE by drawing cartoons and writing poetry. via Daily Mail

To celebrate National Poetry Month, former Maryland Poet Laureate Michael Collier will read and discuss selections of his work next weekend at the Elkton Central Library. via Daily Times

On a hot summer day in 1855, a 36-year-old writer emerged from an undistinguished printer's shop in Brooklyn, New York, carrying a slim volume of his work. via WETA-TV Arlington

“Margaret, are you grieving over goldengrove unleaving? ... It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for”

TO celebrate April as National Poetry Month, everyone is invited to listen to some featured poets and "read your poetry or prose" at an open mic night at La Pintoresca Library in Pasadena on April 18. via Whittier Daily News

“American Poetry Anthology 1990”

Finding a voice in a foreign language Ryszarda Lida Pelc found her gusto for writing poetry in this country. via Naples Daily News

“We stumble on (or over) this kind of oversimplification again and again in our culture's popularization of difficult writers in difficult times.”

Daniil Kharms worked in St. Petersburg until he died of starvation in 1942. Reading Russian poetry and aesthetic theory of the early Soviet period against the backdrop of the American poetry produced since ... via St.Petersburg Times

“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "The Memory Keeper's Daughter," 9 p.m., Lifetime; reruns Sunday and Monday. via The Asheville Citizen-Times

“What seemed to Auden to be a giant ramshackle pseudo-metaphysical toy for a soft-headed self-delusionist, nevertheless supplied Yeats with that superior sense of reality ...”

Ted Hughes, signs books before a reading at the University of British Columbia in 1986 file photo. via National Post

“From that moment, Irwin Allen Ginsberg became a divining rod in the headlong and holy pursuit of God”

"A Blue Hand: The Beats in India" , by Deborah Baker: It was 1961, and Allen Ginsberg was in search of life's meaning. via The Citizen

“It is unforgivable that the executions were again conducted secretly”

Japan on Thursday hanged four convicted murderers, including one who wrote remorseful poetry about his crimes, as the country steps up the pace of executions, officials said. via Raw Story

Professor of English Robert Hass is, as of this week, one of three Pulitzer Prize winners on the Berkeley faculty. via Berkeleyan

Maxine Susman of Highland Park, Linda Radice of North Plainfield and Charles H. Johnson of Hillborough will be featured on May 10 in The Distinguished Series of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community ... via Home News Tribune

From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world... we present the ultimate reading list. via Burningbird

The 2008 Pulitzer Committee has awarded poetry prizes to two poets with University of Iowa ties. via Des Moines Register

Simon Fraser University professor emeritus Robin Blaser, considered to be one of North America's most outstanding poets of the postwar period, is in the running for the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize. via CBC News

“I spent most of the time on dead-ends and doubts”

Thanks to Bob Dylan, rock 'n' roll has finally broken through the Pulitzer wall.

Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, who more than anyone brought rock from the streets to the lecture hall, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, cited for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."

It was the first time Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive. Read more

Robert Hass, a former Poet Laureate of the United States and a current professor at UC Berkeley, todat was awarded a Pulitzer prize for poetry. via San Jose Mercury News

“It can give you a moment of reflection”

Robert Hass will be appearing at "Poetry Live!," part of the Walnut Creek Library Foundation's observance of April as National Poetry Month on April 10th. via Contra Costa Times

“It's relieving to see a poem write itself. Sometimes it's like good advice I can follow.”

Where: Various locations in and around Silverton For more information: www.silvertonpoetry.org Schedule of events 3 to 5 p.m. today: Northwest poets Kim Stafford and Crystal Williams present their work, Mount ... via Statesman Journal

“A Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree”

Poetry and music make for fun Sunday April 6, 2008 Join local poet Edward Daugherty and musician Maryalice Little for Peaceful Gatherings: Poetry, Song & Silence for Peace from 2 to 3:30 p.m. today at Southeast ... via Star-Gazette.COM

A poetry professor at the University of Houston has been chosen as the second annual winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, an award for writers of great talent, but less fame.

Tony Hoagland's win was announced Thursday by Poets & Writers Inc., a New York City-based nonprofit group for creative writers.

The three-judge panel that awarded Hoagland the $50,000 prize called him a risk-taker.

'He risks wild laughter in poems that are totally heartfelt, poems you want to read out loud to anyone who needs to know the score and even more so to those who think they know the score,' wrote the judges, who included the poets Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Read more

“The body of a captured slave is chopped into four pieces and displayed in four cages that hang from four branches. The belief by many slaves is that a chopped, caged spirit cannot fly away to a better place.”

"THE SURRENDER TREE" BY MARGARITA ENGLE Cuba's revolutionary struggle erupted on Oct. via Myrtle Beach Online

A Colorado group has chosen Aaron Anstett as its first poet laureate. Anstett's selection by the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project for the 2-year term was announced Wednesday. via KWQC-TV Davenport

The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture and Seventh Avenue Merchants Association will unveil new artwork and poetry in the streetscape panels at Seventh and Glenrosa avenues. via City of Phoenix

Five albums in, Philadelphia's fringe-y Radio Eris still aren't worrying about being accessible or smooth or, at their most far-out, even intelligible. via Philadelphia Weekly

- Writers making the short lists for two national poetry prizes were announced Tuesday at a launch event for National Poetry Month.

In the running for the $1,000 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a first book of poetry: "Radius of Light," by Joshua Auerbach; "Making Bones Walk," by Alex Boyd; "Wolf Tree," by Alison Calder; "Contrary Infatuations," by Dymphny Dronyk; "Ride Backwards on Dragon," by Kim Goldberg; and "The Sweet Fuels," by Erin Knight.

The $1,000 Pat Lowther Award for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman: "Wolf Tree," by Alison Calder; "The Crooked Good," by Louise Bernice Halfe; "Two Hemispheres," by Nadine McInnis; "Shell," by Olive Senior; "Quick," by Anne Simpson; and "Going Around With Bachelors," by Agnes Walsh. Read more

For the 12th year running, April is National Poetry Month , deemed so by the Acadamy of American Poets back in 1996 and celebrated creatively throughout the month: Poetry and The Creative Mind : A gala event on ... via About.com

“It's exciting that something I've produced is so popular.”

A GOTHIC poet from Worcester is celebrating the launch of his second book, which has already attracted celebrity fans. via Droitwich Spa Advertiser