Building a bigger table for spoken word poetry April 16 was B.Y.O.P. night at Coming to the Table-Historic Triangle’s monthly gathering. Everyone was invited to Bring Your Own Poem to observe National Poetry Month, which was established to ... 04/20/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
Literate Matters: Modern poetry and more Diane Seuss is also among the dozens of poets included in “Raised By Wolves,” also from Graywolf Press, where Erika L. Sanchez calls her “a witch” in her assessment of “I once fought the idea of the ... 04/19/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
De Vinck: Unfortunately, it’s National Poetry Month I am sorry to say that April is National Poetry Month, as if poetry needs an awareness campaign. Like much in the United States today, poetry is sinking to the lowest common denominator, lacking sense ... 04/19/2024 - 7:30 pm | View Link
Is it poetry? Texas professor reacts to Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department AUSTIN, Texas — A hot debate has ensued over poetry after Taylor Swift released "The Tortured Poets Department," which is her 11th studio album. 04/19/2024 - 1:37 pm | View Link
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department' is here. Is it poetry? This is what experts say On Friday, Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift has released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” ... 04/19/2024 - 12:42 pm | View Link
Poetry Daily What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems.. In Ecopoetry Now, invited poets engage in an ecopoetic conversation across borders.In poems and poetics statements, their work describes important local differences, including bioregion and language, as well as a shared concern for the Earth. 04/19/2024 - 10:29 am | View Website
Browse Poems | Poetry Foundation Explore Poems. Browse by: Topics. Forms. School/Period. Poet's Region. Showing 1 to 20 of 47,473 Poems. 04/19/2024 - 1:11 am | View Website
Poems | Academy of American Poets Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Juan Felipe Herrera, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and more. You can even find poems by occasion, theme, and form. 04/18/2024 - 10:12 pm | View Website
Poetry.com Poetry.com is a collaborative platform for poets worldwide, offering a vast collection of works by both renowned and emerging poets. It's a community-driven project that serves as a hub for poets to share their works, receive feedback, and connect with like-minded fellow poets. 04/18/2024 - 9:07 pm | View Website
Poetry Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. 04/18/2024 - 8:29 am | View Website
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer?
“Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel,” by Shahnaz Habib (Catapult, 2023)
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you.
“The Memory of Lavender and Sage,” by Aimie K. Runyan (Harper Muse)
Tempesta’s father is dead. His will leaves the family fortune to her brother. But to everyone’s surprise, the will gives Tempesta money that had belonged to her mother, who died years before. Tempesta has no reason to remain in New York. Her grandmother hates her, her brother is disdainful, and she’s bored with her newspaper job.
So on a whim, Tempesta buys, sight unseen, a house in her mother’s native Sainte-Colombe, France.
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer?
“End of Story,” by A. J. Finn (William Morrow)
“End of Story,” by A. J. Finn (William Morrow)
A. J. Finn’s “The Woman in the Window” was a huge best-seller. “End of Story” is destined to be, too. It’s a mystery more than a thriller, and a tightly crafted page-turner.
Literary critic Nicky Hunter is a huge fan of mystery writer Sebastian Trapp.
Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems).
Right now, fans of sci-fi/fantasy films are going ga-ga over “Dune: Part 2” (which certainly is gorgeous).
But I’m here to sing the praises of another space opera.
A young George Lucas talks with Anthony Daniels, who plays the robot C-3PO, for the film “Star Wars: A New Hope,” in 1977.
I was a bit late jumping on the Star Wars bandwagon.