Poetry

On March 4, her sister received a summons from the police to the Monywa morgue. She identified her brother’s body, Ms. Khin Sandar Win said. A bullet hole pierced his left temple. A long gash ran across his chest. The family wondered if the gash indicated that his internal organs …

LIMA – The Lima City Council, in partnership with Art / Space Lima, presented the first official poet laureate in the city’s history during its council meeting on Monday evening. Lima asked longtime resident and educator Timothy Cheeseman to be the city’s leader in creative writing and poetry. Cheeseman is …

Self-doubt nearly kept Carmichael’s Alexandra Huynh from entering the high school classroom where a UC Davis program offered students the opportunity to present their poetry. While a student at Mira Loma high school, Huynh had not yet given a public voice to her poems. But a phone call to her …

Battle Ground Academy junior Kendall Grimes has reached the final of Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation competition that draws students from across the country. After successfully completing her school and national competitions, then the 2021 national semifinals, the two-time champion of the state of Tennessee will compete against …

Following our fascinating dive into the Irish Times archives, poetry critic Maria Johnston writes about the archival discoveries she made as she went in search of the elusive Irish poet and physician Ethna MacCarthy (a remarkable woman for her time, who died on this subject in 1959) and reflects on …

One of the things you are asked the most when people find out that you are a poet is if you can recommend something that could be read at an upcoming wedding, or if you know something that could. suitable for a funeral. For most people, these occasions – along …

Church of Beethoven, a nonprofit music organization that started in Albuquerque in 2007, will host eight concerts featuring some of northern Colorado’s finest classical performers and poets. Beethoven’s original church (NPR story here) was founded by the late cellist Felix Wurman in 2007 at a funky gas station / arts …

Writing in October 1942, Faiz Ahmed Faiz complained in a critical essay that the new poetry was difficult to understand because the symbolism it used was alien to our poetic tradition, and cited a line from Miraji as an example. The same debate is repeated every time traditionalists confront new …

The Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s online group “Friday Poets” began shortly after the COVID-19 shutdown began last year. “Exchange co-chair David Marshiak asked in April 2020 if I wanted to lead a Zoom group that came together as part of a group of activities to keep members of the exchange …

He’s a man of words – they’re even inked on his knuckles – so it’s only fitting that he’s now surrounded by them. That’s why he’s here. It’s a Friday afternoon and Sin to Your Wishes is being courted at the Sunrise Library. He came here as a child, cycling …