I just spent a couple of (wonderful) hours writing a remembrance and review of Sunday night"s Poets Asylum at the Java Hut in Worcester - only to have Firefox eat the post when it didn"t like the picture I tried to upload. I am sad. Not because my words were deathless prose, but because Sunday night was full of lively poetry and ...
I spent some time this morning dropping back in on folks I"ve written about in the past thanks to Frank Wilson at BooksInq, who graciously helped put out the word about Carlos Contreras, the New Mexico teacher looking for poems to hand out to his students. The followup on that - Carlos is still looking, and thanks those that have sent poems. He says ...
Last Friday, I wrote about Rick Lupert"s Poetry Superhighway, where Rick Lupert has been featuring some of the best poets in the world since 1997. At the time, I told you about his Great Poetry Exchange, and the Great E-book Free For All. I didn"t mention the annual Poetry Superhighway Poetry Contest, which has been running since 1998 for one reason ...
One of the things that many of our past poets laureate have shared - not only among themselves but with the poets laureate of numerous states, cities and other nations - is an abiding passion for opening the world of poetry to children. Billy Collins created Poetry 180 to share a new poem every day of the school year with schoolchildren. In Chicago, the ...
