Poetry News

Radio Taiwan International held its ninth annual Mandarin Speech Contest for Foreign Nationals' finale in Taipei yesterday, with Cleisha-Bernise Springer, an exchange student from Saint Lucia, taking away two prizes including overall champion.

Poet Katrina Vandenbarg will discuss the "Alphabet Not Unlike the World: Poems" and her other works at an adult poetry contest event at the Wescott Library .

By Biswajit Choudhury, New Delhi, May 19 : She started liking the poetry of India's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore while in school, and now China's noted dulcimer player Liu Yuening has made the first Chinese transcription of Tagore's songs with the aim of creating an enduring basis for India-China ties as the two countries embark on ... (more)

Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and until recently the editor of Poetry magazine, has written what may become a spiritual classic.

On June 2nd, the Bi Writers Association will present Bi Lines VI, a spectacular multi-arts event celebrating bisexual writing, which includes the first Bisexual Book Awards in the world.

If we haven't done it ourselves, we've known people who have, it seems: taken a vacation mostly to photograph a vacation, not really looking at what's there, but seeing everything through the viewfinder with the idea of looking at it when they get home.

Well known children's poems spring to life when The Crabgrass Puppet theatre brings their delightful show, Haiku, HipHop and Hotdogs to The Public Theatre today, . Perfect for families and children pre-K through fifth grade, this production is a fun way to introduce a child to the magic of theatre, at the affordable price of only $5 a ticket for ... (more)

Inc., W.W. Norton and several other publishers now routinely release new books in both print and digital versions, including last month's Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Sharon "In the spring of 2010, we actually formed a team to focus on books that were complicated to make into e-books, like poetry and illustrated nonfiction," says Liisa ... (more)

Some time ago we reported that the Dutch artist Nion was working in a musical version of a poem by Emily BrontA«. Finally, the work has been released : Thy Delightful Shade is a project in which I intend to set poetry by famous English poets to music.

They are from the Children in Care Council and the Virtual School who have been working with local artists exploring different styles of writing - from traditional written verse to rap and free style poems.

A new website on prison poetry was launched this week with assistance from a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

An Iliad, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peters on and Denis O'Hare , with translation by Robert Fagles , is directed by Penny Metropulos at Syracuse Stage , running now through June 9. BroadwayWorld has a first look at Joseph Graves as The Poet onstage below! This remarkable adaptation of Homer's account of the Trojan War vivifies the tale's epic ... (more)

The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum will reopen in October, after being closed for over a year due to lack of funding.

Oku Onuora, barefooted and all, gives his audience at Kingston Pon Di River a taste of his legendary poetry last April.- File In 1984, Sketches - a riveting, rhyme-and-rhythm depiction of urban crime and violence, that was first published by pioneer performance poetry artist Oku Onuora in his 1978 book Ech o - re-emerged as a poignant and powerful ... (more)

The show will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 24 and May 25, in the media center at Pittsfield High School.

Behind the podium, onstage and off, she is easy and full of the lighter take on most things.

I saw the weakest minds of my occupation destroyed by blog comments, hate-eating hysterical shivering, dragging themselves through message boards at dawn looking for a troll to fight.

Ex-city dock worker Matt West was plucked from scores of entrants in a Daily Echobacked campaign to find Southampton's first children's poet laureate.

His jokes often lack jokes and the guys have grabbed Reilly's most recent article about the New York Jets in which Reilly takes a stab at poetry.

This year's Redwood Coast Peace Poetry & Art contest, sponsored by Veterans For Peace, will culminate in a celebration from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Fellowship Hall, 23 Fellowship Way in Bayside.