Poet Renée Nicholson will read from her work Tuesday, October 7 at 7 p.m. in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. Nicholson, assistant professor at West Virginia University, is the author of Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center, a collection of poems. She was the 2011 Emerging Writer-in-Residence at Penn State Altoona. The poetry reading … Continue reading Poetry reading and Hard Freight Cafe set for Oct. 7 (via Penn State Altoona)
Deadline August 31, 2014. Prize: The winner will receive publication, 50 free author copies, a $500 honorarium, and round-trip travel to Minneapolis for a book release show to be filmed by Button’s video crew. All finalists will be considered for publication and will be invited to perform at a Button show in Minneapolis, though only … Continue reading Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press’ Third Annual Chapbook Competition (2014 Button Poetry Prize)
Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass has won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens prize for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry" from the Academy of American Poets. Hass is much-lauded: he was a MacArthur Fellow, won a National Book Award in 2007, and shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, among other prizes. (Read … Continue reading Book News: Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass Wins $100,000 Poetry Prize (via NPR)
Poetry Hickory will celebrate its seventh anniversary Sept. 9, and award-winning poet Becky Gould Gibson and editor M. Scott Douglass will be the featured writers for the celebratory event. Poetry Hickory was started by Hickory poet and teacher Scott Owens at Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse in 2007 as a monthly reading series. A few months … Continue reading Poetry Hickory to celebrate 7th anniversary (via HickoryDailyRecord)
Poetry and acute care for the elderly are two things not usually combined, but when they are the results are remarkable.On the fifth floor of the Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) just south of Adelaide, doctors and nurses busily shuffle around like bees servicing a hive. In a room for the acute care for the elderly, … Continue reading The power of poetry in the halls of a hospital (via ABC.net)
Carrboro resident Celisa Steele works at a consulting firm she founded with her husband, but her real passion lies in writing poetry. Steele serves as the Carrboro Poet Laureate for the 2013-2015 term. According to a press release from the Carrboro Arts Committee, the poet laureate works to enhance the role of poetry in the lives of … Continue reading New Carrboro poet laureate brings poetry to the people (via TheDailyTarHeel)
See, there is this place where people participate in a ritual derived from the verbal tradition of telling and retelling stories to a room of bodies, barstools and emptying bottles until the stage is a pulpit. Some call it prayer. These people keep calling it slam poetry. Slam is conventionally defined as the art of … Continue reading SA’s Gritty PuroSlam is Feared, Respected in National Slam Poetry Scene (via SanAntonioCurrent)
I'm not that good at either one. I know, this is an odd confession for a pastor to make. You don't like to hear your pastor saying, "I'm no good at praying." And don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't pray. It's just that I am apt to compare myself with people who … Continue reading Prayer and poetry (via Christian Century)
Bob Falls had been working on an idea for a show using poetry to explore the stages of a person’s life but didn’t initially see himself as one of the performers. After moving to Asheville in the early 1980s, he was cast in a play at the Asheville Community Theatre, and as he gained experience, … Continue reading Word play: Poetry Alive! celebrates 30 years (via Mountain Xpress)
The O, Miami Poetry Festival has dreamed up dozens of creative ways to expose Miamians to poetry: flying banners in the sky, sewing verses into thrift store clothing, marching through the streets dressed as dead poets. But during O, Miami 2014, artist and writer Elena Errazuriz took a more straightforward approach. She stopped pedestrians on … Continue reading Watch Miami Pedestrians Recite Poetry During O, Miami 2014 (via Miami New Times)
