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The third annual National Baseball Poetry Festival will take place May 2-4, and will feature events at venues including Polar ...
Karisma Price grew up in New Orleans, then attended Columbia University and earned her MFA in poetry from New York University ...
The documentary is narrated by Caddo Parish Poet Laureate, Poetic X, exploring works by Gilgamesh, Tennyson, Edgar Allen Poe, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Gil Scott Heron, and other ...
Gathered outside the Cambria County Library in downtown Johnstown on Tuesday, young poets recited a haiku they wrote for the ...
AGAWAM — When Abigail Drumm, a senior at Agawam High School, won the Poetry Out Loud competition recently, she beat 17,400 ...
In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...
JoEllen Kwiatek's work has been published in "The Antioch Review" and "The American Poetry Review." She has also received a ...
What do you get when you combine soccer, poetry and community service? America Scores Bay Area, home of the poet-athlete.
Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s ...
Joann Pagano Weber stands in front a shop window on Main Street in Saugerties displaying portaits of local people that she created for National Poetry Month. (Photo by Lauren Thomas) Hey, how’s your ...
What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of need. Either way, I’d love to know why it matters to you.
I write poetry to capture moments ... either going in alphabetical order or spelling out a word like Edgar Allan Poe did in his poem “An Acrostic.” Kearney’s song is a partial acrostic, with each line ...