poetry

Reciting Poetry Earns South Dakota Teenager A National Prize

5:23pm May 28, 2021

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Rahele Megosha, a senior at Washington High School in Sioux Falls, won the 2021 Poetry Out Loud prize on Thursday. The award is given by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation.

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A Maryland state flag waves near the Statehouse in Annapolis. Maryland has decided to drop a state song that originated during the Civil War and alludes to Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant and a despot.

Maryland Repeals State Song That Called Lincoln A 'Tyrant'

10:53am May 20, 2021

by Scott Neuman

Maryland, though a slave-holding state, did not secede from the Union and attempted to maintain neutrality during the Civil War. The song was a full-throated defense of the Confederacy.

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Reality TV Inspired This Poetic Look At People And The Things They Hoard

5:51am May 13, 2021

by Jeevika Verma

In her latest book of poems, artist Kate Durbin looks at modern consumerism and the way people process trauma and loss through the objects they hoard. Durbin was inspired by the A&E show Hoarders.

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'Curb' Uses Poetry To Scrub At The Wounds Of Anti-Asian Racism

7:00am April 25, 2021

by Jenny Bhatt

Divya Victor's new book is a compilation of poems, memories, histories and essays, considering domestic terrorism against Asian Americans, in urgent words that spill out on the page like blood.

Poetry Challenge: Create A List Poem That Grapples With Rise Of Anti-Asian Racism

8:23am March 31, 2021

by Casey Noenickx

Attacks against Asian Americans have increased since the coronavirus pandemic began. Tell us how you cope with this anti-Asian violence and discrimination in the form of a list poem.

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Poet Raymond Antrobus's parents didn't realize he was deaf until he was 7 years old.

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'Perseverance' And Poetry Help A Writer Bridge Multiple Worlds

5:06am March 25, 2021

by Jeevika Verma

Poet Raymond Antrobus was born in East London to a Jamaican father and a British mother. He grew up deaf, turning to poetry as a way to navigate between the hearing and non-hearing world.

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'Popular Longing' Digs Into Everything We'd Rather Leave Unsaid

5:45am February 22, 2021

by Jeevika Verma

In her third collection of poems, Natalie Shapero takes a blunt, funny look at the uncomfortable realities of life under capitalism. She says her work engages with the things people don't talk about.

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'Love And Other Poems' Promises That Love Will Find Us

10:00am February 09, 2021

by Jeevika Verma

Alex Dimitrov's new collection — perfect for anyone caught between the moon and New York City — advises readers to be patient: Time is always moving on, bringing us closer and closer to love.

the she said dialogues: flesh memory, by Akilah Oliver

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While the Possible is Possible: A 2021 Poetry Preview, Part 3

4:13pm February 04, 2021

In the final installment of our 2021 poetry preview, we bring you books that demonstrate the incredible capaciousness of poetry — and that we hope will be sustaining company for the year ahead.

Writer Jackie Wang's debut poetry collection is called The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void.

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With Sunflowers As Her Guide, Poet Tunes In To Dream Life For Debut Collection

6:08am February 02, 2021

by Jeevika Verma

Poet Jackie Wang's collection is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning in to them.

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