This week on My Poetic Side, we look at the winner of the Pushcart Prize, and we also have news about the 2025 Foley Poetry Contest Prestigious Pushcart Prize Awarded to Professor Heather Treseler Worcester State professor Heather Treseler won the Pushcart Prize for her poem “Purpura”. The poem, which is just 28 lines long, is described as completely immersive and shows the reader ...
This week, in our poetry news roundup, we look at the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award Winner and the Pulitzer Prize Poetry Award. Margaret Atwood Named as Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award Winner Renowned poet and author Margaret Atwood has been named the recipient of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award. This is an award given on a periodical basis, and ...
This week on My Poetic Side we have articles about a Blue Plaque for a poet, the Jackson poetry Prize and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences election of the first ever South Korean member. Blue Plaque for Gerard Manley Hopkins A blue plaque in commemoration of famous priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkinsis to be unveiled in Barmouth at Aber Huse. ...
Today on our poetry news round up, we look at Benjamin Zephaniah Day, the poet laureate’s freedom of the city of London and evidence that the Bard did not abandon his wife. Benjamin Zephaniah Day Celebrated The inaugural Benjamin Zephaniah Day was celebrated earlier this month on the campus at Brunel University of London. The activist and celebrated poet worked ...
Today in our poetry news round up we look at a talk on the poet Samuel Beckett, the publishing of Charlotte Bronte’s miniature poetry book and the winner of the Anisfeld-Wolf poetry award. Beckett’s Legacy Explored in Talk in Enniskillen James Joyce and Samuel Beckett are considered to be the two titans of Irish modernism, and the poet David Cameron, who is particularly ...
