Latest news about Poetry
Poetry marathon cancelled (The Pickering News Advertiser)
PICKERING -- A 48-hour poetry marathon to help keep a tardy Canadian poet's home has been cancelled. The Pickering Public Library was every set to host the writing marathon from Tuesday, Aug. 19 to...
19 Aug 2008, 12:37 pm | click here for more
Inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize awarded (Guardian Unlimited)
Cambridge University graduate Kate Miller has won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for her poem After the Ban
20 Aug 2008, 8:32 am | click here for more
Longfellow House to present student poetry award winners (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
The Longfellow National Historic Site presents the winners of the Longfellow Student Poetry Awards, a contest recognizing original poetry from local students from the Greater Boston area, Sunday, Sept. 14, at 2 p.m. on the east lawn of the Longfellow home at 105 Brattle St.
18 Aug 2008, 1:47 pm | click here for more
Central students write, share original poetry (The Doings Hinsdale)
Twelve Hinsdale Central students bared a tiny part of their soul Friday night. The eleven girls and one boy were part of a week-long poetry writing camp that culminated in a public reading at the high school. The camp was hosted by Kevin Covall, a published poet and native Chicagoan. Covall, who hosted the camp in 2007, said several students who attended last year's program had returned.
18 Aug 2008, 3:05 pm | click here for more
Pam's legacy of poetry (Eastbourne Today)
AN award-winning Seaford poet died on the day an exhibition featuring her work was opened to the public. (19/08/2008 15:55:24)
20 Aug 2008, 2:10 am | click here for more
Olympic poetry contest finalists (Radio Netherlands)
Finally - the top five poems in our Olympic poetry contest have been chosen! The winner will be announced on 25 August in a special Olympic edition of Curious Orange.
19 Aug 2008, 7:19 am | click here for more
Fred d'Aguiar's poetry workshop (Guardian Unlimited)
The idea of revision presupposes a vision, an original which enables the return visit. Poets faced with a prodigious library of forebears, continue precisely because they look opportunities for further exploration of ideas and emotions touched on by previous books. The Guyanese writer, Wilson Harris, characterises this process of return to an unfinished legacy as a creative act of engaging with ...
20 Aug 2008, 6:32 am | click here for more
Poetry prize awarded at festival (BBC News)
One of the largest-ever prizes for a literary competition in Scotland is awarded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
19 Aug 2008, 8:41 am | click here for more
Wilkes professor puts poetry in motion (The Citizens' Voice)
Since the inception of the “Poetry in Transit” program last year, Mischelle Anthony has become known on the bus as the “Poetry Lady.”
19 Aug 2008, 3:39 am | click here for more
Lost Dylan poetry surfaces with '60s Hollywood photos (International Herald Tribune)
After languishing in storage for more than 40 years, poetry by Bob Dylan and photographs by Barry Feinstein will be published in a collection entitled "Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript."
19 Aug 2008, 6:44 am | click here for more