Deadline August 31, 2014. Prize: The winner will receive publication, 50 free author copies, a $500 honorarium, and round-trip travel to Minneapolis for a book release show to be filmed by Button’s video crew. All finalists will be considered for publication and will be invited to perform at a Button show in Minneapolis, though only … Continue reading Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press’ Third Annual Chapbook Competition (2014 Button Poetry Prize)
Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass has won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry" from the Academy of American Poets. Hass is much-lauded: he was a MacArthur Fellow, won a National Book Award in 2007, and shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, among other prizes. (Read … Continue reading Book News: Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass Wins $100,000 Poetry Prize (via NPR)
Additional Info Lyrics: So what is this thing that we call sin And why is it so strong that we cannot win You see Adam and Eve they were tempted by Satan He told them that God was mean and He was just hatin See Satan he tells us lies he's trying to deceive us … Continue reading (Video) PB&J | Freedom From Sin
Poetry Hickory will celebrate its seventh anniversary Sept. 9, and award-winning poet Becky Gould Gibson and editor M. Scott Douglass will be the featured writers for the celebratory event. Poetry Hickory was started by Hickory poet and teacher Scott Owens at Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse in 2007 as a monthly reading series. A few months … Continue reading Poetry Hickory to celebrate 7th anniversary (via HickoryDailyRecord)
Additional Info To Download Song: http://noisetrade.com/jpoetic/back-alley-poetry Second single off of upcoming album. VIDEO: Video: Directed by Hassan Muhammed @hassanHmuhammed Ballerina: Lorianne Barclay @lorianne_r Producer: Kary Youman PA: Hassane Idy @little_wizeman TRACK: Written/produced: J Poetic Cello: Cale Haugen @CaleHaugen Bass: Roman Y. Kolyvanov @misterkolyvanov Information courtesy, YouTube
Poetry and acute care for the elderly are two things not usually combined, but when they are the results are remarkable.On the fifth floor of the Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) just south of Adelaide, doctors and nurses busily shuffle around like bees servicing a hive. In a room for the acute care for the elderly, … Continue reading The power of poetry in the halls of a hospital (via ABC.net)
Additional Info Alysia Harris performs "When I Look at You Without Speaking I'm Drawing a Map" at "Gilded" The Strivers Row Winter Showcase. Recorded Live at Le Poisson Rouge NYC. Information courtesy, YouTube
Carrboro resident Celisa Steele works at a consulting firm she founded with her husband, but her real passion lies in writing poetry. Steele serves as the Carrboro Poet Laureate for the 2013-2015 term. According to a press release from the Carrboro Arts Committee, the poet laureate works to enhance the role of poetry in the lives of … Continue reading New Carrboro poet laureate brings poetry to the people (via TheDailyTarHeel)
Additional Info Filmed at Houston Baptist University in Houston, Texas at "The Canvas" on April 26th presented by chaseGodtv Audio: @the_food CONTACT Facebook | facebook.com/whatisjoedoing Twitter | twitter.com/whatisjoedoing Email | joe@chaseGod.tv NERD INFO Canon 6D w/ 24-105mm f/4L Soft boxes for lighting Rode VideoMic Pro Edited on Final Cut Pro X SPEAKING/BOOKING Want to bring … Continue reading (Video) Joseph Solomon | A Shadow of a Doubt
See, there is this place where people participate in a ritual derived from the verbal tradition of telling and retelling stories to a room of bodies, barstools and emptying bottles until the stage is a pulpit. Some call it prayer. These people keep calling it slam poetry. Slam is conventionally defined as the art of … Continue reading SA’s Gritty PuroSlam is Feared, Respected in National Slam Poetry Scene (via SanAntonioCurrent)
