Tag: National Poetry Month
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National Poetry Month: Happy Birthday Maya Angelou!
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Happy Birthday Maya Angelou!Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928–May 28, 2014) would have been 90 years old today. We featured her last year during Black History Month, but when such a “phenomenal woman” and poet has a birthday during National Poetry Month, it’s hard to not celebrate that and feature her again (and again). I…
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National Poetry Month: Joy Harjo
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Joy HarjoToday’s poem comes from Joy Harjo. She was born in Oklahoma and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1978. She is part of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, an identity that is also reflected in her poetry, including her collections The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1996), How…
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National Poetry Month April 2018
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Read More: National Poetry Month April 2018We’ve loved having monthly themes here on the blog. February was Black History Month, an opportunity to profile amazing authors, scholars, educators, and speakers who enrich our studies, our understanding, and our lives. Then March was Women’s History Month, a chance to honor the wisdom, innovation, determination, creativity, compassion, humor, and strength of…
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National Poetry Month: Camille Dungy
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Camille DungyWe’re coming to the end of National Poetry Month. It has been a challenge to limit ourselves to just a month’s worth of influential poets and poetic forms, while including space for CSU’s own poets. We’ve barely brushed the surface. If we’ve learned anything this month, it would be that…
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National Poetry Month: Sasha Steensen
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Sasha SteensenAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’ll spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. Professor Sasha Steensen has published numerous chapbooks and full-length poetry collections, including correspondence (a collaborative work…
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National Poetry Month: Dan Beachy-Quick
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Dan Beachy-QuickAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’ll spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. Poet, professor and essayist Dan Beachy-Quick is next up for our local poets. He is an…
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National Poetry Month: Matthew Cooperman
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Matthew CoopermanAs National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’d like to spend the final days focusing close to home, on our very own English department poets — Matthew Cooperman, Sasha Steensen, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Camille Dungy. CSU professor Matthew Cooperman is the author of four chapbooks and five full-length books…
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National Poetry Month: Alumna Poets
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Alumna PoetsMaybe we are biased, but we have some of the best alumni. They are a diverse group of amazing humans doing interesting and important work in the world. We miss them after they are gone, and love nothing more than to brag about them, to share with you all the good…
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National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry Around FoCo
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry Around FoCo“Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn’t just want to sit on the paper, that something about it demands to be heard out loud or witnessed in person.” -Sarah Kay We’ve spent this week celebrating the form of slam…
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National Poetry Month: Our Favorite Spoken Word Poems
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Our Favorite Spoken Word PoemsToday we are continuing our focus on spoken word poetry and poets. These are some of our favorite spoken word poems. What are some of yours? Video: “What Teachers Make” by Taylor Mali Video: Rachel Rostad – “Names” Video: Neil Hilborn – “OCD” Video: Sabrina Benaim – “Explaining My Depression to My Mother” Video: Beautiful…