This week our poetry news round up looks at the 2025 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards and one of the poets nominated for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Winners of this year’s Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards Announced The 2025 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards has announced the 37 youth poets who have been named as this year’s winners. The award is given for ...
This week on My Poetic Side, we look at one of the 2025 winners of the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows award, a document linked to Nazim Hikmet and the death of the poet Derry O’Sullivan. Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe Announced as Fellowship Winner Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe has been named as one the 2025 winners of the Ruth ...
This week’s poetry news round up takes a look at the blue plaque for a “forgotten poet”, and the arrest of Alice Oswald. Spotlight for the Forgotten Poet of the Troubles Earlier this week a blue plaque was unveiled for the poet Padraic Fiacc, who’s poetry which captured some of the darkest years in the history of Northern Ireland ...
This week on My Poetic Side we take a look at the opening of a museum dedicated to one of the most important modern Greek poets. We also look at the film based on a book about Dante’s Inferno. Monemvasia, Home of Yannis Ritsos, Transformed into Museum Yannis Ritsos was born in May 1909 and is arguably one of the ...
This week on My Poetic Side, we look at articles about the death of the poet and performance artist Andrea Gibson, and the shortlist for the Forward Poetry Prize. Andrea Gibson, Poet and Performance Artist, Dies Aged 49 The poet and performance artist Andrea Gibson, who had been the Poet Laureate of Colorado since 2023 and used they/them pronouns, has died at the age ...
