Full Title: Coffee After Dark poetry series finds new home in Mt. Airy's 7165 Lounge Mount Airy, Philadelphia After four years of poetry night Coffee After Dark, the event hopes to have found a new home in Mt Airy. On Thursday three featured artists and those who picked up the "open mic" entertained a small … Continue reading Coffee After Dark poetry series finds new home (via NewsWorks)
UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Poets and poetic souls celebrated World Poetry Day on Saturday by sharing their favorite verses with fellow masters of rhymes in the Twitterverse. UNESCO proclaimed March 21 World Poetry Day in 1999 with the aim of reviving interest in poetry, encouraging poetic activities and supporting linguistic diversity … Continue reading Poetic souls celebrate World Poetry Day (via CNN)
Full Title: Pay with a poem - cafes around the world to exchange coffee for poetry To mark World Poetry Day, more than a thousand coffee establishments around the world will use poetry as their currency this Saturday. What is a poem worth? As authors around the world despair of making a living, a company … Continue reading Cafes around the world to exchange coffee for poetry (via The Guardian)
Full Title: Roy poet Lindy Blodgett finds purpose and faith in her poetry, and her clients agree (via The News Tribune) “The brightest heavens of invention,” as Shakespeare called them, have shed their light in rural Roy. In a cottage beneath a canopy of tall fir and cedar, Lindy Blodgett, 32, courts her Muse, combining … Continue reading Lindy Blodgett finds purpose and faith in her poetry (via News Tribune)
In its tenth anniversary year, the Poetry Out Loud national recitation competition for high school students knocked the socks off a Princeton audience at Richardson Auditorium on Friday at the opening of the Princeton Poetry Festival. Twelve students, selected from some 38,000 at 162 high schools statewide, read poems in two rounds before four were … Continue reading Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest Steals the Show at Poetry Festival (via Town Topics)
Grand Rapids, Michigan A local poet is breaking down the walls of racial inequality and self-harm by teaching high school students the art of poetry. Marcel “Fable” Price is a poet who tackles real world issues like suicide, racism, and crisis intervention by spreading a positive message of love and hope. “We teach kids spoken … Continue reading Changing lives through poetry (via FOX17)
Full title: Northampton Poet Laureate Rich Michelson out with new book of poetry (via Mass Live) Outgoing Northampton Poet Laureate Richard Michelson, owner of R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, is out with a new adult poetry book, his first in eight years. The book, "More Money than God," is being released just as Michelson is … Continue reading Poet Laureate Michelson out with new book of poetry (via MassLive)
Fans of The Colorado Independent’s news poetry series will be interested to know that a $1,000 award out of Telluride is currently accepting submissions by West-of-the-Mississippi poets. The prize, now in its 18th year, honors the memory of Colorado poet Mark Fischer, who “combined a polyglot’s command of languages with a quirky sense of humor and a passion … Continue reading News Poetry PSA: Mark Fischer Poetry Prize (via Colorado Independent)
In 2010, the conceptual poet Vanessa Place published a provocative book called “Statement of Facts,” the first volume of a three-part project. Place has a day job as a lawyer who represents indigent sex offenders on appeal. To compose the book, she took the obscene tales of her clients as they were told in court … Continue reading Post-Internet Poetry Comes of Age (via The New Yorker)
National Poetry Month is just a few weeks away. While you wait for the celebration to begin, you might want to get some great titles and tools onto your list (or your laptop). Check out these ten terrific recommendations, and try your hand at everything from new writing challenges to new reading experiences. Or, if … Continue reading 10 Terrific National Poetry Month Titles & Tools (via Huffington Post)
