Poetry

I am looking for people attached to Poetry Harbor. Google tells me that the late Patrick McKinnon (DNT in the spotlight here) may have been a founder? Ellie Schoenfeld too? Looks like Larry Schug posted with them (Obsessed with mud)? Sheila Packa too (Always say goodbye)? There were two award-winning …

Wwartime, language game, act of restorative justice, conversation – erasure poetry can play all of these roles and more. A branch of rediscovered poetry, erasure poetry starts from an existing document, erasing parts to leave a new, finer text. While this type of worm is experiencing a resurgence in popularity …

FITCHBURG – Two high school students from Fitchburg High School, Julia Boudreau and Axel Cornelio Mota, recently participated in the monthly “Poetry Readaloud” at Wallace Towers, a city residence that is part of the Fitchburg Housing Authority. Mota, who is bilingual, has read and translated several poems by Chilean author …

Literary Arts at Featherstone (formerly Noepe Center for the Arts) and Slough Farm announce their partnership to create an invitational and nominated writing residency for historically underrepresented writers of Martha’s Vineyard. According to a press release from Literary Arts, as of October 21, Brooklyn writers and poets Shira Erlichman and …

Characteristics Ren Green and Sasha Wizelman are club co-chairs. frost lily Poetry Club, a club at Berkeley High School (BHS), strives to create a sanctuary for any student to write and share poetry. It is currently led by Sasha Wizelman, Senior in Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS), and Ren Green, …

Carolyn Wing Greenlee Carolyn Wing Greenlee first discovered poetry as a child while browsing her mother’s library. The love affair with carefully crafted words never ceased, although her own skills grew as she majored in Comparative Literature with a major in Poetry at Occidental College and Creative Writing with a …

Living in Brexile, you find excuses for the UK’s exhilaration of dribbling. You explain to mystified non-Britons that whatever they’ve put in the water will one day run out. May Merlin return with Excalibur and Alec Guinness. Everything will be fine again. So I visited the UK pavilion at Expo …

HANOVER – Poets and environmentalists work together to raise awareness among people about the protection of open lands and the nature around them. As part of this effort, land trusts have teamed up with poets to publish an anthology that celebrates the parcels of land conserved. The Upper Valley Land …

A woman in the cockpit of a commercial aircraft is still a rare sight to behold. Airline passengers got used to “Here is your captain speaking”, coming over the intercom in a baritone voice. Flight safety instructions are most often announced by a flight attendant. But gender currents in aviation …

It is often argued that poetry can be both abstract and necessary. But it is the language, sober and inventive, which infiltrates the defenses. Questions from the Dea‘, K Satchidanandan’s latest collection of poems, is about decentering the subject, unmasking authority, and seeking kinship with nature to elicit a deep …