Poetry News

Freya Murphy's winning poem, Creepy Crawlies, is about a cockroach and will be published in the next book in the Felicity Fly series.

What could make an angel cry? What could bring one of these ethereal beings - that literature tells us possess great wisdom and heavenly vision - to tears? Whether you believe in angels or not, maybe the notion is simply to ponder what on this earth could be sad enough to conjure the image of angels weeping.

What is a hero? Is it a superstar athlete who can jump higher and run faster than the average man? Is it a glamorous woman with all the right curves and a megawatt smile who acts on the big screen? Is it a person who can paint or write or compose masterpieces of fine art? Sometimes we throw the title of "hero" around too haphazardly.

Fifth-grader Carson Stehling read her literary-magazine poem aloud Friday at The Cooper School, whose students won the first-place award for a student-produced magazine from the South Carolina Independent School Association.

In one sense, no - they're incomplete without music. Lyrics are written for performance, backed by or woven into a wall of sound.

The Rehoboth Beach Writers' Guild is kicking off its summer creative writing classes with two poetry classes - one a workshop, the other a discussion group - designed to inspire and motivate writers of all skill levels and genres.

Guillemot Legend In an Inuit story, a sorcerer decides to punish the villagers. He turns all the children into birds and away they fly, on a long journey across day, night, night, day, into an unknown land.

In a ninth-grade literature class, I was assigned a poem that didn't make any sense to me, although I was intrigued by its title.

A medley of jazz, folk, big-band and world music from brilliant young talents. From Barnet the Queen Elizabeth's School Big Band, directed by Kieron Howe, joins forces with the Choir of St Margaret's School Bushey, under the direction of Ian Hope.

It's no secret kids are smart little nuggets. For starters, they're chock-full of helpful logic and know how to fool parents with a fib.

The Worcester County Poetry Association announced this week that Ann Sweetman of Shrewsbury, a high school English teacher in the Worcester Public Schools, has won the 2013 Frank O'Hara Prize for poetry.

Daniel McGinn is a phenomenal poet. He writes from a whole other planet that strangely enough, shares our same moon.

In contrast to this brief poem with its short, succinct lines, "A lot of my poems are really long," Gouch said.

Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies, has had his fourth book of poems, "In the Kingdom of the Ditch," published by Michigan State University Press.

Keith Flynn Saturday, May 25 3:00 pm Keith Flynn will read from his new collection of poetry, Colony Collapse Disorder at Blue Ridge Books.

As figures show tumbling sales for poetry , authors including poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy are mourning news that one of the UK's most energetic independent publishers can no longer afford to publish individual collections.

Having school competitions helps students to study well. This was said by Zephyrin Ntakirutimana the vice mayor for social affairs in Gakenke district during the closure of the Habitation in settlement villages competition on the 21st.May.2013. Ntakirutimana asked the youth to polish their compositions to compete well on the Western Provincial on ... (more)

St. Joseph Elementary School third-grader Aiden Tyrin is the grand prize winner for Hawaii in the 14th annual nationwide Dr.

With just weeks to go until they move on from Denny International Middle School , headed for high school, dozens of young poets have just put on quite a show.

In the late Sixties and early Seventies, John Fogerty was rock & roll's Voice of America.