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The Malibu Library is housing a new event: Caffeinated Verse.  The event, which will feature coffee and poetry, is a three-month-long series at the library put on by the Poet Laureate Project.  Malibu Poet Laureate Ricardo Means Ybarra will host Caffeinated Verse. Each event will feature one poet, followed by an open mic. The series … Continue reading Monthly Coffee and Poetry Comes to Malibu (via The Malibu Times) →

Athens, Ohio. Kari Gunter-Seymour wasn’t always a poet. But when her son, a combat veteran, was serving in Iraq, she began writing as a form of therapy to keep herself from thinking of what could happen to him. “It was just a horrible time. The violence there was so profound; the death rate was so … Continue reading New poet laureate wants Athens to be known for its poetry (via The Post Athens) →

Analy High senior Sarah Condello represented Sonoma County in the annual Poetry Out Loud contest last weekend in Sacramento, making it through two of the three rounds of the event that featured 46 students from across California. Condello became Sonoma County’s representative in the state contest after winning the local Poetry Out Loud event Feb. … Continue reading Analy High senior scores in state poetry contest (via Sonoma West Times & News) →

One of the first rooms at the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses a collection of his self-portraits and a timeline of his life. During van Gogh’s first two years in Paris, he painted 28 self-portraits. A wall text states that they “were not meant to show what he was like, but were exercises in … Continue reading Fusing Language and Landscape in Poetry (via Hyperallergic) →

Spoken word artist Too Black has a lot to say about being Black in America. But the story of how he first started as a poet might have as much to do with pizza delivery as with race. Too Black didn’t get a lot of tips when delivering pizzas on the Ball State University campus … Continue reading The global perspective of spoken word artist named, Too Black (via NUVO) →