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Professor encourages students to explore poetry (via Daily Bruin)
Full Title: "Professor creates organization encouraging students of all majors to explore poetry (via Daily Bruin)" Every member of the UCLA community should read or hear a poem sometime between this April and June, said English adjunct assistant professor Reed Wilson. UCLApoem – Wilson’s brainchild – is a new student-run organization that will organize several … Continue reading Professor encourages students to explore poetry (via Daily Bruin)
(Video) Sophia Thakur | Beauty in Your Stillness
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Celebrate National Poetry Month With the New Yorker Poetry Bot (via The New Yorker)
Just in time for National Poetry Month, the New Yorker Poetry Bot is back! Launched in 2017, to celebrate the magazine’s ninety-second anniversary, the bot offered readers a daily dose of poetry on Twitter and Facebook Messenger, cycling through ninety-two poems that were chosen to represent every decade of our archive. With this reboot, we’ve expanded that selection, adding … Continue reading Celebrate National Poetry Month With the New Yorker Poetry Bot (via The New Yorker)
(Video) DeAndre Moore | The Familiar Stranger
Additional Info: Spoken word to all the fathers out there that are not in the kids lives. Dre describes kids growing up with a shadow of a father. The only thing shared are facial features. "Men be fathers, you're killing your sons." Information courtesy, YouTube
Deaf poet Raymond Antrobus wins Ted Hughes award (via BBC News)
London poet Raymond Antrobus, who was thought to be dyslexic with severe learning disabilities until his deafness was discovered at the age of six, has won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in Poetry. He has won the £5,000 prize for his debut collection The Perseverance. The poems explore loss and legacy through his … Continue reading Deaf poet Raymond Antrobus wins Ted Hughes award (via BBC News)
(Video) Paola Murillo | Accent
Additional Info: Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry. We seek to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry's … Continue reading (Video) Paola Murillo | Accent
Local poets present to EMS seventh-graders (via The Emporia Gazette)
Did you hear alliteration in the air? Could you feel brains growing and passion seeping? Was Johnny Cash singing a song written by Shel Silverstein? That was what students who were a part of the Emporia Middle School poetry presentation experienced Wednesday. Five local poets visited with the seventh-grade language arts classes to talk about … Continue reading Local poets present to EMS seventh-graders (via The Emporia Gazette)
(Video) Emi Mahmoud | No One Tells You…
Additional Info: Full Title: "No One Tells You How Easy It Is to Fall in Love or How Hard It Is to Stay There" Emi Mahmoud, featuring at Button Poetry Live, May 2017. Information courtesy, YouTube
Kinsale Hueston uses poetry to explore her Native identity (via Yale Daily News)
Full Title: "Kinsale Hueston ’22 B.A. uses poetry to explore her Native identity (via Yale Daily News)" Her grandmother is a recurring figure in Kinsale Hueston’s poetry. In “squashblossom,” the narrator kisses her departed grandmother’s forehead during the funeral ceremony “to whisper her to sleep.” In “Grandmother,” she struggles to accept her grandmother’s declining health. Hueston, a … Continue reading Kinsale Hueston uses poetry to explore her Native identity (via Yale Daily News)