Autobiographical or not, volumes of poetry feather open the writer’s human heart and lay it, pinned and spread, on butterfly pages.
From the Telegraph: The Internet is causing a poetry boom. Poetry reading groups – known as “series” – are becoming stronger thanks to the growth of online communities to back them up, he said. “These reading series often have Facebook groups around them. The net is helping smaller networks get together across the country so [...]
From Newsweek: Inauguration poet Elizabeth Alexander – “The arts have a place in conversation”: What message do you think Obama is sending by including a poet in the ceremony? It’s that the arts have a place in conversation, that poetry, its distillation, its precision, its mindfulness, models for us a way that we might stop [...]
So vast was my fanboy admiration of Billy Collins when I was in college, so unencumbered by facts my ambition, and so shameless my neophytic insolence, that I wrote the Poet Laureate of United States a poem.
Photo: Sean Talbot It didn’t surprise me when Marc Smith, founder of the poetry slam movement and host of the Uptown Poetry slam, told me that ministers sometimes “lurk in the shadows” of the Green Mill Lounge, a prohibition-era Chicago speakeasy, during the Sunday night poetry slam. When I first moved to Chicago, I, too, [...]
Vassar Miller’s body was out of order, but her soul held rhyme and reason.
For the trophy wife, the revolutionary, the avant-garde artist, salons have always been about standing up to the status quo.