Additional Info Sebastian Jones of Nashville's slam team. For more information about Brave New Voices or Youth Speaks go to http://www.youthspeaks.org. Information courtesy, YouTube
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Longmont poetry group releases anthology (via Times-Call)
For the last seven years, several Longmont residents have met as part of a private group, solely to write poems. Some of the 20 active members are engineers, one works in finance, another is a therapist. Only two are full-time writers. But once a month the group meets, most recently at Que's Espresso, to write … Continue reading Longmont poetry group releases anthology (via Times-Call)
(Video) Jesica Blandon | Alzheimer’s
Additional Info Urban Word's fundraising showcase at The Point. Featuring the Urban Word NYC 2010 Brave New Voices slam champions. Information courtesy, YouTube
Lexus’ Music And Poetry Television Show ‘Verses & Flow’ Returns (via Forbes)
[Last Week], season five of TV One’s Lexus -sponsored program Verses and Flow kicked off, and the artists involved this time are some of the best around. Estelle, Jazmine Sullivan, and Jussie Smollett of Empire fame have all signed on, as have over two dozen of the best poets and spoken word artists in the … Continue reading Lexus’ Music And Poetry Television Show ‘Verses & Flow’ Returns (via Forbes)
(Video) Joseph Solomon | Words for My Father
Additional Info As a young black male in America, I am a minority of a minority. My biological father raised me alongside my mother, his wife of 32 years. Because my father was never very close with his father, he made it a point to be an important part of my life. Though my dad … Continue reading (Video) Joseph Solomon | Words for My Father
New Poet Laureate Wants Poetry To Be Part Of Mainstream Culture (via Hartford Courant)
Connecticut's newest poet laureate, Rennie McQuilkin, says he wants to make poetry an integral part of the state's culture. McQuilkin, a resident of Simsbury since 1973 and current poet laureate of the town, has taken to promoting poetry as his life's mission since he began teaching summer creative writing classes in the early 1960s at … Continue reading New Poet Laureate Wants Poetry To Be Part Of Mainstream Culture (via Hartford Courant)
(Video) Najee Omar | The Show Up
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New Taft artist-in-residence: Poetry can heal (via Cincinnati)
Go Alysia! Click the link, below, to read the full article. Poetry isn’t just the words on the page, the voice on stage. It’s also the process, the meditative moments that evolve into the poem. “I think, at least for me, poetry has been a practice that has been a lot like meditation or prayer … Continue reading New Taft artist-in-residence: Poetry can heal (via Cincinnati)
(Video) Venessa Marco | Off White
Additional Info Venessa Marco performs "Off White" at The Strivers Row #BlackLivesMatter Benefit Show. Recorded Live at MIST Harlem, USA. http://www.thestriversrow.com http://www.facebook.com/thestriversrow http://www.twitter.com/thestriversrow Information courtesy, YouTube
In Blue Fasa, Duke poet Nathaniel Mackey defends ancient bonds between poetry and music (via Indy Week)
Blue Fasa, the latest book by Duke University Creative Writing Professor Nathaniel Mackey, is a lyrical voyage through an epic love story. Yet this epic is but a fragment of an even vaster one, "Song of the Andoumboulou," a multi-volume poem that began with the National Book Award-winning Splay Anthem. In the cosmology of the … Continue reading In Blue Fasa, Duke poet Nathaniel Mackey defends ancient bonds between poetry and music (via Indy Week)