Today on My Poetic Side we look at the new poet laureate in Miami-Dade, the winner of the Whiting Award 2022 and the struggles of the Pablo Neruda Museums. Miami-Dade Gets First Poet Laureate In 2013 the poet Richard Blanco served as the fifth inaugural poet in the United States. He read “One Today” at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. On 7th April ...
Today we look at the importance of the tree planted to mark the bicentenary of the death of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the winner of the National Poetry Competition. Bicentenary of Death of Shelley Marked with Tree Planting The 200 year anniversary of the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the Horsham-born poet, has been marked with the official planting of a ...
We begin the week with a look at a rare Phillis Wheatley letter that is to go on display in a museum, and we also have an article about this years winner of the Windham-Campbell prize. Rare Phillis Wheatley Letter Acquired by Museum A rare printing of a letter by Phillis Wheatley has been acquired by the Museum of the American Revolution. Wheatley ...
Today in our poetry news round up we look at Tupac Shakur’s poetry up for auction, the anniversary of the death of Miguel Hernandez and the spoken word poet who has been nominated for an award. Unpublished Childhood Poetry of Tupac Shakur Put up For Auction When Tupac Shakur was just 11 years old, he penned a booklet filled with haikus for Jamal ...
We begin the week with a look at the poet who was quoted at a supreme court confirmation hearing, and the work going on to protect a statue of a national poet. The History of a Poem Used at Confirmation Hearing During the recent confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Senator Cory Brooker chose to read aloud from ...
