Additional Info Subscribe to Button! New video daily: http://bit.ly/buttonpoetry Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, performing at the Button Poetry showcase at the 2015 National Poetry Slam. Hanif's debut book, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, is now available for order. Information courtesy, YouTube
While others will be grilling, tossing the football or catching up with Dad this Sunday, many people in East Liberty will be getting their fill of ... poetry? Janera Solomon, executive director of the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, said poetry readings are not just for academics. “Terrance Hayes and I ... have been talking for a long … Continue reading Celebrating 20 years of black poetry and Cave Canem on Father’s Day (via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Additional Info Subscribe for more poetry! http://bit.ly/alldefpoetry All Def Poetry is a new channel brought to you by Russell Simmons - a world-renowned champion of the spoken word art form. Fresh, riveting, and featuring some of the best voices in the genre, All Def Poetry brings you the raw power of spoken word! #AllDefPoetry → CONNECT WITH … Continue reading (Video) Aman Batra | Here
Cool! (Event takes place in Mumbai) If stage fright has held you back from performing, here’s an open mic with a twist. This weekend, a ‘blind poetry’ event will take place in the city, where poets can recite original work to a roomful of audience, but in the dark. There will be all but two … Continue reading Does performing poetry in near darkness sound like your thing? (via Hindustan Times)
Additional Info Performing for University of Nebraska-Lincoln at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Follow Button on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/SG5Xm0 About Button: Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry. Information courtesy, YouTube
"It was splendid for me," says Indian poet Rajendra Bhandari. "We usually lose so many things by translating poems. But this time, we gained much more. We got to know the language, the culture." Bhandari was among the participants of a project established in 2002 by a Berlin-based center for poetry called Literaturwerkstatt. The project … Continue reading Project ‘Poets Translating Poets’ proves that poetry is more than art (via DW)
Additional Info We asked a group of 6-11 yr olds their views on BEAUTY and got some very surprising answers! We then combined the answers with my spoken word piece around the same subject. I came up with concept for "What Is Beauty" when a girl approached me after a performance and asked me if … Continue reading (Video) Suli Breaks | What is Beauty?
The Your Voice section of The Poet's List showcases articles and blog posts written by poets. These pieces may or not be about poetry. Most often, they are on topics with which the poet finds passion. You can find more of these posts, here: Your Voice. By Christina Patterson “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness … Continue reading Your Voice: Christina Patterson – Memorising poetry is an art of the heart | (via The Guardian)
Anthon Samuel was just days shy of his eighth birthday when he witnessed the unthinkable. Despite struggling to cope at first he managed to turn his pain into poetry and is this week’s South Florida Survivor. “March 20, 2001, people heard rounds,” Samuel reads from his phone. “Once cops arrived to the scene a black … Continue reading South Florida Survivor Uses Poetry To Ease Pain Of Father’s Death (via CBS Miami)
Additional Info May 25, 2016 Convocation Speech. Full remarks transcribed here: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/lift Information courtesy, YouTube
