Today's poetry news round-up takes a look at renovations on a Japanese shrine linked to a poet and the poet laureates guest appearance at an event in Nebraska. Renovation Begins on 1100-Year-Old Shrine Across Japan, there are many shrines. However, the Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, which can be found in Dazaifu, is said to be one of the most important. This ...
Today's poetry new round-up looks at the poet-inspired Eurovision song, a play about Sylvia Plath and the winner of the 2023 Ondaatje prize. Austria’s Poet-Inspired Eurovision Entry On Saturday, hordes of people across Europe were glued to their TV screens to watch Eurovision 2023. Hosted in Liverpool on behalf of last year's winning country Ukraine the show promised to bring ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we look at this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner and the ground-breaking exhibition for a Japanese poet and artist. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Awarded Carl Phillips, who is a poet and works as a professor at Washington University, has been named as this year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The prize has ...
Today on our poetry news round-up we look at the coronation of King Charles III, and we have a short story about a new genus of butterfly. The Poet Laureate's Poem for a Coronation Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate, has written a poem to mark the occasion of the coronation of King Charles III. Titled “An Unexpected Guest”, the ...
Today in our poetry news round up we look at the winner of the Hall-Waters Prize, poet-inspired cocktails and Phillis Wheatley’s “Little Book”. Hall-Waters Prize Awarded to Terrance Hayes The poet and essayist Terrance Hayes was awarded with the Hall-Waters Prize during a lunch at the International Arts Centre of Troy University last Friday. The prize is given for excellence ...
