The Your Voice section of The Poet's List showcases articles and blog posts written by poets. These pieces may or not be about poetry. Most often, they are on topics with which the poet finds passion. You can find more of these posts, here: Your Voice. How did Amanda Gorman become the first person to … Continue reading Your Voice: Amanda Gorman – A Young Poet’s Inspiration | (via NY Times)
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Amanda Robinson meets five Auckland writers who are stunningly good at a much-derided art form – spoken word poetry. Perhaps the most cringeworthy phrase in all the arts, the one that makes everyone recoil, including most poets, is “spoken word poetry”. But when it’s good, when a poem reading ends and you realise you’ve been … Continue reading The stars of Auckland’s spoken-word poetry scene (via The Spinoff)
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Back in January, in honor of Valentine's Day, Morning Edition announced a love poem request line: Send us your memories of love and relationships, and author Kwame Alexander will find a poem that captures that feeling. We got more than 600 heartfelt, moving responses. You shared stories of being smitten and stories of betrayal; stories of parental love … Continue reading Poem For Your Thoughts: Your Memories Of Love, Captured In Poetry (via NPR)
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When you hear a poem in an ad, especially a Super Bowl ad, it’s usually a safe and licensed choice lifted from the long-dead likes of Whitman or Frost. But Coca-Cola went a different direction with its Super Bowl ad, building it instead around a lovely and original poem about inclusiveness, identity, individuality and, yes, Coke. … Continue reading The Poet Behind Coke’s Super Bowl Spot Wants All of Us to Bring More Art to Advertising (via Adweek)
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"He’s going to die any minute now,” a college classmate of mine said in 1994, when the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra had just turned eighty and we were eighteen. I asked if the poet was sick or something. “When people are eighty, it’s highly probable that they’ll die at any minute,” he replied. We were on … Continue reading Remembering Nicanor Parra, the Almost Immortal Chilean Poet (via The New Yorker)
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