Author: thepoetslist

The 53rd Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program presented award-winning poet Carl Phillips Tuesday night at Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center at the University of Connecticut. The mission of the Wallace Steven’s Poetry Program is to promote poetry at UConn and in the Hartford area by offering two poetry readings each spring –  one at … Continue reading Award-winning poet Carl Phillips visits UConn for annual poetry reading event (via The Daily Campus) →

He has been called a vandal, a street artist, a post-Situationist, a punk artist and the text-art Banksy. Scottish poet Robert Montgomery has consciously made an “awkward space” for himself in between artistic categories – and he thoroughly enjoys it. His work puts poetry in front of people in eye-catching visual formats: from advertising billboards … Continue reading The medium is the message – the power of public poetry (via The Guardian) →

Culturally, historically, “green” suggests many good things: hope, spring, fertility, nature, luck, growth, wealth, and yes — sometimes jealousy and greed. Many of these are woven into poems submitted for this year’s Creative Loafing poetry contest. Thank you to all who submitted, and congratulations to the poets whose poems made it into the top 10 … Continue reading CL Writing Contest 2016: Poetry (via Creative Loafing TB) →

In his penultimate semester, our son, a double-degree senior in business and economics at Large Public U.,discovered he was three humanities credits shy of what he would need to graduate. We weren’t that surprised. What did surprise us was the course he chose. Who would have thought that our ESPN-watching undergraduate, whose favorite courses were game … Continue reading When Our Son the Business Student Took Poetry (via Chronicle) →

Dahlak Brathwaite was a recent college graduate and a rising star on the hip hop and slam poetry scene when he was pulled over with a bag of magic mushrooms in his car. In his native California, this meant entering a drug recovery program to avoid a felony conviction. “This wasn’t the path that I … Continue reading Dahlak Brathwaite embraces the poetry of life’s hard knocks (via Metro) →