11/23/2008
YOU HAVEN'T LIVED HERE UNTIL ...: You've been to a poetry reading at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit Free Press)
POETRY AS ART? Kind of. The museum hosts the "Woodward Line" poetry series, which showcases local wordsmiths. The next reading, features Hayan Charara, Christina Archer and Nandi Comer, is at 6 p.m. Dec. 17. Each of these MOCAD events is an opportunity to celebrate the written word, while surrounded by art that ranges from the avant-garde to the insouciant.
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11/23/2008
Poetry program heads to court (Concord Monitor)
New England College is about to lose its status as the one school in the country with a poetry-only master's degree program. And administrators blame the program's former director, who they say stole NEC's faculty and students and re-created its program at Drew University in New Jersey.
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11/22/2008
Correction: On Poetry (New York Times)
A picture credit with the On Poetry column last Sunday omitted the name of the photo agency. The picture of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath was from Blackstar.
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11/23/2008
Student Voice: St. Edward's students compete in annual poetry recitation contest (Vero Press Journal)
The poetry contest was started about 40 years ago to help children at St. Edward's School become better at oral presentations.
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11/22/2008
Poetry contest open to K-12 students (Salem Statesman Journal)
Salem — Students in grades K-12 may enter a state poetry contest by the Oregon State Poetry Association.
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11/23/2008
Rockettes embody precision, poetry in motion (Dayton Daily News)
Birds fly in intricate formations without crashing.
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11/22/2008
Poetry on canvas / Exhibition combines work of young writers with lively portraits of the artists in action (San Francisco Chronicle)
Evan Bissell well remembers how art and writing transformed his life when he was a teenager growing up in Mill Valley in the 1990s. After graduating from Wesleyan University in 2005, where he studied painting and American studies, he returned to the Bay Area...
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11/21/2008
Mark Doty Wins National Book Award for Poetry (The Advocate)
An acclaimed gay writer just got more acclaimed. Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems won the National Book Award for poetry at an awards presentation Wednesday night in New York City.
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11/23/2008
Local professor, radio personality to be honored at WSU (Dayton Daily News)
Conrad Balliet fell in love with poetry at an early age. He remembers his mother used to bounce him on her knee and recite verses to him in Pennsylvania Dutch.
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11/23/2008
Three poets visit OSU on Friday (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Averill Curdy, Penelope Pelizzon and Jeffrey Thomson will read poetry as part of OSU’s Visiting Writers Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Valley Library Main Rotunda at OSU. A panel question-and-answer session and book signing will follow.
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