Additional Info: Button Poetry showcases the power and diversity of voices in the poetry community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry's audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form. Information courtesy, YouTube
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. Full Title: "Building a world and inviting us in: the … Continue reading Your Voice: Joe Hoover, S.J. – inviting us in: the 2023 Foley poetry contest | (via America Magazine)
Additional Info: 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
In hindsight, it seems prophetic that the Beverly-based poet January Gill O’Neil named her most recent collection “Rewilding.” Published in 2018, the book found a receptive audience during the pandemic, when folks were searching for meaning and hearing an awful lot about vacated land returning to its original state. “That book endures,” says O’Neil. “There’s … Continue reading Massachusetts Poetry Festival brings community together in person after long hiatus (via Boston Globe)
Additional Info: When you breakup with someone, what are the rules? Can you talk? Do you delete them off socials? Here's my take on it performed at this years Summer Poetry Xperience. Information courtesy, YouTube
As spring starts to blossom in New England, some Vermont communities come to life with the sites and sounds of written verse. "These are the honey makers The maple sap tappers The pollen gatherers The elixirs healing the future from the spirits of the past," a woman recited from a poem written by Buffy Aakaash, of Marshfield, … Continue reading Vermont’s capital city celebrates poetry with parade, display of poems (via Fox News)
Additional Info: Button Poetry showcases the power and diversity of voices in the poetry community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry's audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form. Information courtesy, YouTube
“What you say, and how you say it, means everything,” Joshua Bennett writes in the introduction to his vibrant cultural history of spoken word poetry. “Truth is embedded in the telling. Indeed, the telling is another kind of truth altogether.” It is in the telling that the true magic of spoken word, and Bennett’s intricate … Continue reading How Poetry and Performance Combined to Become a New Genre (via NY Times)
Additional Info: 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
Andru Defeye shouldn’t be here. Sacramento’s current poet laureate, a 38-year-old Oak Park resident, was selected for his title in February 2020 with little published poetry. Born without stomach muscles, which led to serious childhood health issues, he tells people his first poem, at age 13, was a suicide note. He moved to Sacramento in … Continue reading Here’s a look at Sacramento’s poet laureate (via Sacramento Bee)
