Activist, slam poet, and the first winner of the Women’s Poetry Slam, Andrea Gibson, is coming to the Hawthorne Theater on March 8 in Southeast Portland. Gibson was born in Calais, Maine, and has been writing poetry since they were very young. Gibson became more serious in college, but didn’t really get absorbed in the … Continue reading Emotionally connect through the spoken word (via PSU Vanguard)
Additional Info Jamila Woods, part of Team Providence 2011, performs "Pigeon Man" at new York's Bowery Poetry Club. Aug 2011 Information courtesy, YouTube
Ben Ostrowski ’17 is a psychology concentrator, music enthusiast and likely the only student at the University who has turned an email exchange with his father into a book. This time next year, Ben’s collection of poems, co-written with his father Steven Ostrowski, will hit the stands. The seeds for the chapbook — a short … Continue reading Father-son poetry collaboration to be published (via Brown Daily Herald)
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry will be shared in Billings to foster conversations about the journalistic, literary and artistic values the Pulitzer’s legacy represents. The yearlong series of events will include a keynote reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri, who will be interviewed by Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Matt Brown; as well as lectures, multimedia performances, a … Continue reading Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry to be celebrated (via Billings Gazette)
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A Sacramento County boy has won the California Poetry Out Loud competition. Chigozie Maduchukwu's recited "Let the Light Enter" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. "More light for death is weaving shadows round my waning sight. And I fain would gaze upon him through a stream of earthly light." He also recited "The Filling Station" by Elizabeth … Continue reading Sacramento Teenager Wins California Poetry Competition (via Capital Public Radio)
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March is Women’s History Month and April is National Poetry Month, and Black Mountain Institute nods to both with a spring speaker lineup centered on those topics. Women dominate the literary center’s March roster, with a talk about literary genre-blending by poet and essayist Megan O’Rourke (March 2), who began her career as one of … Continue reading Black Mountain Institute’s Spring Season Celebrates Women and Poetry (via Las Vegas Weekly)
Additional Info Twitter: @camovement & @J_Ivy FEATURED IN THE BOOK "HERE I AM: THEN & NOW" & ON THE ALBUM "HERE I AM" NOW AVAILABLE ON: http://www.J-Ivy.com a Camovement by Cam Be & J. Ivy Directed by: Cam Be & J. Ivy. Assisting Director by Tarrey Torae. Produced by Jamaal "Reality" Meeks & J. Ivy. … Continue reading (Video) J. Ivy | Stay in Your Lane
