Last year, after Nakanishi came up with the idea for Sunroom, she submitted it to the annual poetry festival O, Miami. She hoped to provide students like Jane with the opportunity to explore their creativity and intellect. And indeed she won a residency to get the project started. O, Miami was created by former New Times writer and editor P. … Continue reading O, Miami 2016 Brings Poetry to the Magic City (via Miami New Times)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
