Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress whose seven-decade career included triumphs on stage and screen, has died. She was 91. Dee died peacefully Wednesday at her New Rochelle, New York, home, according to her representative, Michael Livingston. Dee -- often with her late husband, Ossie Davis -- was a formidable force in both the performing arts … Continue reading Ruby Dee was a formidable force on screen, in civil rights movement (via CNN)
Additional Info Yashira Castillo performing at the Urban Word 2013 Teen Poetry Slam Finals held at the world famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. Information courtesy, YouTube
The Library of Congress is to announce on Thursday that the next poet laureate will be Charles Wright, the author of nearly two dozen collections of verse that fuse the legacy of European modernism with mystical evocations of the landscape of the American South. Mr. Wright, 78, a retired professor at the University of Virginia, … Continue reading Charles Wright Named America’s Poet Laureate (via NYTimes)
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The 2014 CRHS Poetry Festival delighted the Cumberland Regional school community with performances weaving together words, music, and storytelling in a celebration of poetry and the arts. The language arts fete, made possible through the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, welcomed to Cumberland Regional guest poets Charlie Bondhus, Christine Salvatore, J.C. Todd, Gretna Wilkinson, and … Continue reading Cumberland Regional High School hosts annual poetry festival (via NJ)
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The poets completed the first leg of their marathon Friday afternoon at the Library of Congress — saying 37 poems in two hours — without breaking a sweat. They replenished themselves with Salamancan almonds that José María Prieto had brought from Spain. But they hardly needed a break. The drive to create and share the … Continue reading Poets from the Spanish-speaking world join ‘poetry marathon’ (via WashPo)
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Roses are red, violets are blue, Ohio lacks a poet laureate but might have one soon. The Ohio Senate unanimously approved Senate Bill 84, which creates the position, on Wednesday. The bill now goes to the House for debate. Bill sponsor Sen. Eric Kearney, a Cincinnati Democrat, said 44 states have poet laureates. Ohio's poet … Continue reading Ohio could get its own bard to promote poetry statewide (via Cleveland)
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