As we mentioned yesterday, we are spending this week highlighting our “local” poets (faculty and alumni). We sent a short set of questions to each, and will be posting their responses. Today we are sharing what Camille Dungy had to say. […]
As we near the end of our celebration of National Poetry Month, we are spending this week highlighting our “local” poets (faculty and alumni). We sent a short set of questions to each, and will be posting their responses. Today […]
Yesterday, we shared a short list of how to get more poetry into your life. Today we’d like to share some ideas for getting more of your poetry into other people’s lives. Places to share poetry locally: Slamogadro at Avogadro’s […]
As we round the corner towards the end of April, the final days of National Poetry Month, we’ve been thinking about ways we can get more poetry into our lives. Here’s a short list of suggestions, poems, websites, and writing […]
~from Michaela Hayes James Galvin, born in 1951, is a poet, novelist, and instructor. He has written seven books of poetry, most recently Everything We Always Knew Was True (2016), one novel, and a weird hodge-podge mix called The Meadow. […]
~from Cole Konopka Ross Gay is an activist, environmentalist, and most notably, an award-winning poet, whose prizes include a 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, both for his collection Catalog of […]
Today’s poem is by Tommy Pico, a poet from Brooklyn who grew up on the Viejas Reservation outside San Diego, California. Pico published his first epic poem in 2016, titled IRL. The poem follows a character named Teebs who is […]
We’ve featured Naomi Shihab Nye before. I’ve listened to this interview with her on On Being with host Krista Tippett multiple times over the past two years. I find it very inspiring, and thought you might too, on this Monday […]
There is something about hearing poetry and stories read aloud that adds another dimension, or emphasis, on what that work means. Do you think you could tell a story in three minutes? If you’re in Fort Collins tonight, the second […]
~from Michaela Hayes Today’s poem is brought to us by CSU poet and MFA candidate Danny Schonning. I’m taking E403 Writing the Environment this semester (a great class, I highly recommend it to English and non-English majors alike) with Danny […]
