Poetry

Casey Epstein-Gross, an elder attending Solebury School, was named Bucks County High School Poet of the Year for 2021. Her three submissions were selected as the best work from over 150 entries received by Bucks County Community College for the annual competition. For his first place, Epstein-Gross received a cash …

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Caroline sanderson Marvin Thompson, winner of the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Prize in 2021, discusses his new Road Trip collection and how Welsh verses influenced his … The 2021 National Poetry Society Laureate talks about his new collection Travel by carand how Welsh verses …

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, honored the Greek national poet Dionysios Solomos, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution. The ceremony at the National Garden of Athens took place under the auspices of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO. “I imagine him, at …

Martin realizes he’s going to have to quit school, come home, and help his mom because no one else will. “His life is going to change, for the worse,” Sparks said. The family is on vacation at a dude ranch when the truth strikes home. There, Martin hears a barn …

Isolation does not always promote loneliness. During the 2020-2021 lockdown that kept some people close and others separated, the poets of Family Focus watched together. Reunited regularly via Zoom, three different groups of poets have contributed to the project: the grandparents raising grandchildren, JoAnn Avery’s Dream Team aged 8 to …

By JOLT staff The city of Olympia named literary writer Ashly McBunch as the new Poet Laureate at the city council meeting on Tuesday, May 18. Every two years, the city selects a promising poet to serve as an advocate for the promotion of the literary arts. The city’s goal …

PENDLETON – Poet Jennifer Perrine is surprised how often she hears the same response from members of the public: “I had an experience like this, and I always thought I was the only one,” say -they. Her poems often address the intersections between lived experience and power systems, using personal …

New Delhi: Urdu poet, critic and author Tarannum Riyaz died in a Delhi hospital on Thursday due to Covid-19. Her husband, Riyaz Punjabi, a former vice-chancellor of the University of Kashmir, died in the city last month. Born in Srinagar in 1960, she was a fiction writer, critic and former …

Jim Bolger admits that “the wheels have come off” on Poetic Flare’s attempt to win a second Classic in France last weekend, but expects a different display in the Irish 2,000 Guineas Tattersalls on Saturday at the Curragh. The Dawn Approach colt won a three-way photo in the Guineas in …

By Merrill Kaitz It is a volume filled with complex pleasures and pains, assembled for a specific purpose. If by song by Marcia Karp. Lily poetry review books, 117 pages, paperback, $ 18. If by song, The beautiful first collection of Marcia Karp, goes further and deeper than most of …