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Full title: Inauguration Poet In St. Louis To Talk About Growing Up, Home and Poetry Poet Richard Blanco is best known for “One Today,” the poem he wrote and read at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. Blanco was the first Latino, first immigrant and first openly gay writer to be commissioned as an … Continue reading Inauguration Poet In St. Louis To Talk About Growing Up (via St. Louis Public Radio) →

Full Title: Stars from heyday of D.C.'s poetry slam scene gather for spoken word reunion. Silvana Straw marched onto the stage with a megaphone, calling out gentrifiers. Jeffrey McDaniel recalled the advantage of being white during a tense encounter with a D.C. police officer. Joel Dias-Porter (a.k.a. DJ Renegade) told of teaching in a local … Continue reading Stars from heyday of D.C.’s poetry slam scene gather (via WashPo) →

Under the glare of lights in a room typically kept dark for performances, David Worthington took the microphone and gave voice to a man who hadn't been heard that evening — not in person, anyway, in this theater half a world removed from his home in Iran: I hear the 15th bone snap … a … Continue reading Poetry calls out from the screen at Silent River Film Fest (via L.A. Times) →

Galway Kinnell, who was recognized with both a Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award for a body of poetry that pushed deep into the heart of human experience in the decades after World War II, died on Tuesday at his home in Sheffield, Vt. He was 87. The cause was leukemia, his wife, Barbara … Continue reading Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Followed His Own Path, Dies at 87 (via NY Times) →