Portsmouth 11th grader wins National Endowment for the Arts poetry competition NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson with Jennifer Shon from Rhode Island, winner in the Poetry Ourselves spoken category. (National Endowment for the Arts)PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (WLNE) — The National Endowment ... 05/3/2024 - 1:43 pm | View Link
Bearing witness, celebrating strength: How poetry has changed lives for NPR's audience From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives. 05/3/2024 - 11:23 am | View Link
Scottsdale resident publishes book of poetry Scottsdale resident Andrew Neumann has a message he wants to share with the world. It’s simply to take a step back from life, allow yourself to breathe in the fleeting joy that’s in ... 05/3/2024 - 9:29 am | View Link
Jonathan Blake and Bill O’Connell team for poetry reading at Worcester State University Poets Jonathan Blake and Bill O’Connell are teaming up for a joint reading at 1 p.m. May 5, at Worcester State University. 05/3/2024 - 8:23 am | View Link
LifeStance Health uses photography and poetry to break mental health stigmas The campaign, for Mental Health Awareness month, aims to add nuance and understanding to mental health struggles. 05/3/2024 - 7:52 am | View Link
Poems | Poetry Foundation More than 40,000 poems by contemporary and classic poets, including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes, Rita Dove, and more. 05/3/2024 - 4:03 pm | View Website
Poetry | Definition, Types, Terms, Examples, & Facts Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or an emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history, present wherever religion is present, and possibly the primal form of languages themselves. 05/3/2024 - 3:10 am | 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. 05/2/2024 - 9:27 pm | View Website
Poetry Foundation From Poetry Off the Shelf April 2024. Philip Metres on middle age, writer's block, and praying for the people of Palestine. Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. 05/2/2024 - 5:59 pm | View Website
100 Most Famous Poems | DiscoverPoetry.com There's always room for debate when creating a "top 100" list, and let's face it, fame is a pretty fickle thing. It changes over time. But that said, we did our best to use available objective data in putting together this ranked list of the 100 most widely recognized and enduring poems ever written. To create this list, the following criteria ... 05/2/2024 - 4:19 pm | View Website
Several thousand romance readers from across the country descended on the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center two weeks ago for Readers Take Denver, billed as a four-day conference where bibliophiles would have the chance to mingle with their favorite authors, get books signed, and attend panels and other events.
But attendees say the April 18-21 conference was so disorganized and chaotic — self-described “RTD survivor” Kelli Meyer referred to it as “the Fyre Festival of books” — that authors soon began pulling out of next year’s event at the Aurora hotel, which already was on sale.
This week, Readers Take Denver announced its 2025 edition was canceled.
“I’ve been to many conferences and this, by far, was the worst one I’ve ever been to,” said Sarah Slusarczyk, a 32-year-old who traveled from Michigan.
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?
This month, several Denver-area histories serve as summer tour guides.
“The Scenic History of Denver Cemeteries: From Cheesman Park to Riverside,” by Phil Goodstein (New Social Publications)
“The Scenic History of Denver Cemeteries: From Cheesman Park to Riverside,” by Phil Goodstein (New Social Publications)
Of the first dozen people buried in Mount Prospect, Denver’s first cemetery, two were hanged for murder, five died from gunshot wounds, and one committed suicide. No wonder the early city fathers wanted the graveyard to be far from the city center.
Mount Prospect was expanded to include a Jewish section.
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?
I’ve completed 17 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles in the past 14 weeks. Mostly by myself.
Over that same time, I also cut way back on booze, halved my phone screen time (okay, it’s maybe 30% less), and gone on a dozen hikes. All without losing a single cardboard piece.
I never really saw myself as a puzzler, but it’s become a nice way to put aside the problems of the world and focus on something else for five or 10 minutes, or for a couple of hours.
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?