Poetry News

On a scale of 0 to 10, how nervous would you be to get up on stage and perform? On a recent Thursday at the Parlor Caf at 303 Ashland St., shyness took the stage in varying degrees during one of many poetry slams.

David R Morgan admits to passing numerous works by other people as his own and says he is 'truly sorry' Cut and paste ... 'Now you can google a line and within seconds if an original poem comes up that's it' Photograph: Sarah Habershon Publishers and magazines have been working to take down poems and suspend sales of collections by David R Morgan ... (more)

Binghamton University hosted its 36th annual Poetry and Children Day, Wednesday morning.

An enthusiastic and appreciative crowd packed Alice's Champagne Palace on Saturday night to enjoy the music, stories and poetry presented by numerous performers for the sixth-annual Cowboy Cabaret.

A sort of team anthology, Sunset Inn: Tales from the North Shore is a collection of fiction, poetry and a play published by the Aloha Romance Writers, who admittedly chose-over margaritas and Mexican food-the conceit of a colonial-style seaside inn, described in Patrice Wilson's poem "This Haven" as "white as salt" and "bleached coral in the sea," ... (more)

In a poetry class I teach at Windward Community College, a student recently did a presentation on coming-out poems and presented her own.

I admitted that the event weighed heavily on my mind. Though we did not dwell long on the events in Boston, the topic remained in the air, threading its subtext into several strands of our conversation.

Registration is open for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center's big event, the Stowe Prize Big Tent Jubilee, which will take place on May 30 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on the Stowe Center grounds, 77 Forest St., Hartford.

Emily Dickinson's home, in Amherst, Mass., offers beautiful grounds and a peek into the life of one of America's greatest writers.

The downtown Left Bank Books will host a poetry reading with several local poets whose works appear in the new anthology "Take Heart: Poems from Maine" edited by Wesley McNair, Saturday, June 1, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. As the current Maine Poet Laureate, McNair has collected verse from his popular "Take Heart" column, featuring a poem each week in 30 ... (more)

'Fl-Ghaqda u s-Sliem' , a collection of Maltese poems, has just been published in the United States.

"KEPLER was my North, my South, my East and Westa I thought Kepler would last forever: I was wrong." So lamented astronomer Geoff Marcy on discovering that the space telescope might have spotted its last exoplanet.

Compelling and fascinating, Bigger than Reality and Less than Fantasy is a meaningful collection of eclectic short stories that depict several facets of the human experience.

AUTHOR: Christina Gabbitas of Leeds Road Selby with illustrations for her new book.

Author Ron Boehm reflects on a lifetime of rich experiences in his timeless collection of poems, " Kaleidoscope View: Poems About Love and Life " . Written over the course of Boehm's lifetime, the poems in "Kaleidoscope View" offer pearls of wisdom about a variety of topics.

Isabella Kemp, left, Alice McDonald, Tessa Sternal, Lulu Levy, Katherine Humes and Amelia Kemp will have their poetry published in 'Young American Poetry Digest 2013.' GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.

You don't have to be sexy, edgy or even a mom to enjoy Thursday's boozy bookish bash at Babeland.

Norfolk's young poets are being encouraged to put pen to paper to celebrate the theme of friendship, and judge Prof Anne Osbourne knows the secret to a good poem.

The newest publication of Delaware Poetry Review ranges widely, from the author of 28 books to the first publication by a recent high school graduate.

KNOWN for breaking ground in many areas of contemporary dance, Durban's Flatfoot Dance Company uses the words of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote in its latest production, dubbed a "uniquely visioned choreopoem", History is a Home Address.