When poet Dinah Berland finished her time as writer-in-residence at the Annenberg Beach House, there was a demand from her students for the workshops she hosted as part of her residency to continue, and since then, the Camera Obscura Art Lab has begun hosting 6 week long poetry workshops led by Berland. On Saturday, August…Read more Poetry in Paradise: Poet Dinah Berland Holds Popular Workshop at Camera Obscura (via Santa Monica Mirror)

I predict this will be my least read column of the year because I am going to write about poetry. It is both distressing and strange that so many people are put off by poetry, given that so many of our first experiences with language is with poetry — not only with children's books like…Read more ‘Why Poetry?’ It’s like asking, ‘why pleasure?’ (via Chicago Tribune)

The American poet Layli Long Soldier’s debut collection, “Whereas,” is in part a response to the Congressional resolution of apology to Native Americans, which President Obama signed in obscurity in 2009. There were no Native Americans present to receive the apology, as most never knew an apology was made. In an introduction to the title…Read more A Native American Poet Excavates the Language of Occupation (via NY Times)

Everybody knows that a finished piece of writing rarely springs, fully formed, from the author’s mind. But how does it get from there to here? The cover of this week’s Book Review features the marked-up draft of a poem by Eduardo C. Corral — one of a series of such annotated manuscripts, from six different…Read more Pulling Back the Curtain on Poetry (via NY Times)

Full Title: " Elizabethtown graduate Brianna Wiest uses her prose and poetry to address emotional intelligence, mental health issues (via Lancaster Online)" Brianna Wiest keeps a small notebook with her. Printed on its cover is a simple mantra, but one the Lancaster writer abides by closely: “Ideas become things.” Wiest says she writes new ways…Read more Elizabethtown poet Brianna Wiest addresses emotional intelligence, mental health issues (via Lancaster Online)

Nobody at the Favorite Poem Project’s Summer Poetry Institute is preaching or arguing about the importance of teaching poetry in school. Nobody has to. Teachers have come from 13 states to spend the week in Boston listening to poems and poets, reading favorite poems aloud, and talking about ways to help kids in grades K-12…Read more Rhyme and reason: where the teachers go for their poetry fix (via Boston Globe)

Adrian “Drii Notes” Kilen is a recording artist, producer, musician, songwriter and poet. But among all his designations, Christian is the one he wears most highly. He is a bright spark in the arts scene in Saint Lucia and is a star in his own class. He hails from the district of Vieux Fort and…Read more Drii Notes to the Stage (Via St. Lucia News Online)