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Visiting a place where poetry is vibrantly alive At the Poetry Project’s 49th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon, no one thinks that poetry is dead January 6, 2023 More than 2 years ago ...
These poets hope to keep the lifestyle alive one poem at a time. Winners of the competition received a certificate from Gov. Jeff Colyer and Lieutenant Gov. Tracy Mann presented them with buckles.
Poetic X has murals across the parish to help inspire, such as “Keep Hope Alive,” his favorite floor-to-ceiling mural at Chimp Haven, “A Chimp Life.” He says, “Anytime I’m given the ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The very first permanent poetry periscope in North America was installed at the Nichols School on Thursday. The green tube that resembles a periscope, peeks out of the ground. To ...
The Avbob poetry competition inspires poets to reach deep inside themselves to find words that keep hope alive.” In 2023’s competition, 55% of the poems entered were written in South Africa ...
The NYC Poetry Fest is Alive and Well at the End of the World, and So Are We The specter of apocalypse feels ever-present, but coming together to celebrate both art and each other reminds us we're ...
Hiram Sims' lifelong love of poetry is now benefiting his neighborhood in South Los Angeles. "Poetry's like a frequency that I can hear above all other frequencies," Sims told The Christian ...
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Sylvia M. Vardell, who lives in Dallas, Texas. When asked how she became interested in poetry, Sylvia says, “My parents are German immigrants and ...
The latest poetry collection from award-winning memoirist, essayist, and poet Saeed Jones delivers on its titular promise of a living, breathing read in the face of grief, loss, and apocalypse.
DECATUR — Everyone’s a poet, but they just don’t know it. The local poetry group, Decatur Area Poets, aims to help others find the poet inside. Decatur resident Anastasia Lindsey, 31, joined ...
Poet Franny Choi believes that, for marginalized people, the apocalypse already happened. And, in her latest poetry collection, she explores what it means to live in this unending dystopia. "By ...