Poetry News

I first discovered Maya Stein's poetry in Patti Digh's book Creative Is a Verb .

Jake Peter's two-run single Saturday night capped a four-run seventh inning that carried Creighton into the NCAA tournament.

Poets who write the poetry of poise have an interest in the clarity of discovery, a desire to be immersed in the lyric values of the past in order to communicate with the future, and also a belief that the role of the poet is not to make a mere report on lived experience but to give a life-and-death testament about the terrors and vitalities of ... (more)

The 10th Annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning chapbook-length poetry manuscript by a poet residing on the Delmarva Peninsula will include $200, two cases of Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Beer, chapbook publication, 10 copies of the chapbook , and participation in the 14th Annual John Milton Memorial Celebration of Poets and Poetry Saturday, ... (more)

This was the mailing address for the publication known as "F*** You: A Magazine of the Arts." "F*** You" was an underground/counterculture journal, written, illustrated, and cranked out on an old mimeograph machine by Ed Sanders, who solicited work from other writers with the motto "I'll print anything." This 'anything' would include work by Norman ... (more)

'Cancer never entered my mind.' In July 2011, Flaherty, 48, was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Rollie Pemberton is a poet - in fact, he was poet laureate of his hometown, Edmonton, Alberta, for a couple of years.

Hannah Richee says there was "no intermingling between poetry and prose in my youth" and believes she is a better writer of novels than poetry.

By Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Goethe Institut launched a bilingual book of poems entitled 'Jub Tera Samandar Ankoh Main' featuring poems in Urdu and German languages by renowned poet of the country, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, at a ceremony at the Institut on Friday evening.

When hundreds of people showed up for a outdoor poetry reading in Farmington in 1992, causing a traffic jam, "it dawned on us," said an organizer, "this was going to be a yearly thing." That was an understatement.

"Poetry anxiety is the fear that the metaphysical will be inaccessible, that we will not get the poem," says Tanis MacDonald, an award-winning poet and an associate professor in the department of English and film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.

This visit to the Norfolk and Norwich Festival by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy was a homecoming of sorts, sponsored as it was by The Rialto - the Norfolk-based poetry magazine that was one of the first to recognise her talent thirty years ago.

Just ten minutes previously, he felt a sudden urge, he says, to remember the last verse from W.H Auden's 'Fall of Rome'. He raises the note, which he's scribbled on with black biro, projecting each word with a careful steady cadence: We're here to talk about Durcan's 22nd collection of poetry Praise In Which I Live and Move And Have My Being , but ... (more)

In January of this year, the West Tisbury Library began accepting nominations for the town's next Poet Laureate.

The loss of youthful idealism is often a slow burn, a gradual series of little defeats.

POETRY written by Matthew Milat after he murdered a teenager in the Belanglo State Forest "glorifies the offence", a judge has been told.

It began with the crisis on Wall Street in 2008. Alexis Cuadrado , from Barcelona and now Brooklyn, remembered the poetry of the surrealist Federico Garcia Lorca , whom all Spanish students study in school.

Binghamton University hosted its 35th annual Poetry and the Children Day on Wednesday.

Voracious this year is celebrating our local farmers markets with a series of poems extolling what's newly ripe and ready for sale .

"Finding Poetry Through Movement," a unique workshop that uses movement and breath awareness to uncover images and sensory impressions hidden in the body, will take place from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 2, at Dog Ears Bookstore.