Australia’s ‘wild reciters’ sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today’s provocateurs?
In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...
Worried About the Stock Market? Here's Warren Buffett's Advice.
Buffett bought his first stock at age 11. He's now 94 years old. It's accurate to say that Buffett has lived through plenty ...
Clark County poet laureate sees magic in her art form, Las Vegas
Aside from being Clark County’s current poet laureate, Ashley “Ms. AyeVee” Vargas has represented Las Vegas in the ...
Loveland Reporter-Herald1d
Trivially Speaking: A dogged pursuit leads to irregular poetry
Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...
The Berkshire Eagle1d
BOOK REVIEW: Berkshire poet David Giannini's 'Stones Are the First to Rise' offers poetic meditations on the multiverse and reality
Berkshire poet David Giannini’s new collection 'Stones Are the First to Rise' explores nature, politics and the shifting ...
Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...
Northwest Asian Weekly2d
Dujie Tahat merges politics and poetry as Seattle’s newest Civic Poet
Do you ever think about how poetry’s is relevant to politics? Dujie Tahat does. Tahat is Seattle’s new Civic Poet for the ...
World Poetry Day: In a post #MeToo world, feminist poetry is flourishing
Poetry and feminism have always been intertwined but in recent years, many new feminist and queer voices have emerged and ...
New Haven Independent3d
Student Poet Names The Cost Of Underfunded Schools
When Sound School ninth grader Journey Rosa thinks of an average school day, she asks herself, "Why do I watch my teachers ration ...
WLRN3d
16,000 poems and counting: Zip Odes judge sees South Florida through everybody else's eyes
Author and poet Sarah Trudgeon lives in Great Barrington, Mass., but she stays connected to South Florida through poetry: for ...
Publishers Weekly3d
Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar Take ‘the Band’ on the Road
Wandering Stars author Tommy Orange and Martyr! author Kaveh Akbar teamed up for a Bay Area book tour this month, stopping at six independent bookstores and the East Bay Innovation Academy, a school ...