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Mid-Maine poets of all ages are invited to submit their original poems to Maine Poetry Express Waterville 2015. The division categories are grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, college and adult. The poem submission deadline is Monday, March 2. Three poets from each division will have poems selected by a blind review of independent judges to ensure … Continue reading Maine Poetry Express Waterville 2015 seeks original poems (via Central Maine) →

Over four decades at two universities, Anne Hall has taught thousands of students, enough to know that they come to college for a variety of reasons, with a variety of attitudes. Many are concerned only with jobs. Some are concerned chiefly with beer. All would like A’s. And too many get them, she said, even … Continue reading College, Poetry and Purpose (via NY Times) →

Great piece by our friends over at The Eternal Graffiti. Link to the full article, below. Jason Carney is a legend in the slam community. Three appearances on HBO’s Def Poetry, multiple poetry slam Final Stages, years of touring the country as one of the first generation of poets teaching and performing in higher education, … Continue reading Jason Carney | TEDX Talk | What America Needs Is An Honest Conversation (via Eternal Graffiti) →

Subtitle: The Hillary Gravendyk Prize, whose deadline is April 30, aims to raise stature of Inland poets. Don't forget to check out the rest of the article by clicking the link, below! The nonprofit literary center, Inlandia Institute of Riverside, has launched a national poetry contest to raise the profile of Inland poets. The Hillary … Continue reading Literary center launches national poetry contest (via The Press Enterprise) →

Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political conscience, died on Saturday. He was 87. Levine, the US poet laureate in 2011 and 2012, died at his home in Fresno, California, of pancreatic and liver cancer, his wife said on Sunday. A native of … Continue reading Philip Levine, former US poet laureate and Pulitzer winner, dies at 87 (via Guardian) →