Tag: National Poetry Month
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National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry Projects
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Spoken Word Poetry ProjectsFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Today, we wanted to share some spoken word projects you might be interested in. Button Poetry was founded in 2011, launching the first Button website and blog soon after. They have being promoting and producing spoken…
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National Poetry Month: Andrea Gibson
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Andrea GibsonFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Andrea Gibson is an award-winning poet and activist born in Calais, Maine. Gibson has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1999. Gibson also goes by Andrew and uses gender-neutral pronouns. Their website bio says, Andrea Gibson is…
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National Poetry Month: Shane Koyczan
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Shane KoyczanFor this week of National Poetry Month, we are featuring spoken word poetry and poets. Hearing a poem read by its author adds an additional dimension to any work.The inflection, the empty spaces, the tone. All of these pieces work together to create the art of spoken word. Shane Koyzcan…
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National Poetry Month: Billy Collins
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Billy CollinsJohn Updike described Billy Collins’s poems as “more serious than they seem.” And indeed, while Collins’ poems are often laugh-out-loud funny, many end on a touching, sometimes somber note. Billy Collins is one of the most well-known and financially successful poets in the United States. He was the United States…
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National Poetry Month: David Whyte
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Read More: National Poetry Month: David WhyteThe work of David Whyte moves between literary, psychological, theological and vocational worlds. As Whyte explains, his poetry and philosophy comes from “the conversational nature of reality.” Born in 1955 in Mirfield Yorkshire, his poetry was influenced by bother his mother’s Irish heritage and what he called his “Wordsworthian childhood”…
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National Poetry Month: Mary Oliver
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Mary OliverTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~Mary Oliver, from her poem “The Summer Day” Mary Oliver is a prolific contemporary poet. Her work has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award,…
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National Poetry Month: Shel Silverstein
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Shel SilversteinSome poetry connects generations together, drawing them in at an early age through fun rhymes and silly images. Shel Silverstein has become synonymous with children’s poetry, the type of poetry that sticks with its readers well into adulthood. Most children are familiar with poet Shel Silverstein’s work and the fun…
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National Poetry Month: Naomi Shihab Nye
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Naomi Shihab NyeNaomi Shihab Nye is the author of numerous books of poems, as well as the author of several books of poetry and fiction for children. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she spent her adolescence in both Jerusalem and San Antonio, Texas. Her experience of difference has influenced much…
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National Poetry Month: Margaret Atwood
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Read More: National Poetry Month: Margaret AtwoodMargaret Atwood is probably best known for her novel, A Handmaid’s Tale, often referred to as a work of “speculative fiction.” However, what many people may not know about her is she’s also an accomplished poet, having published 15 collections of poetry. Margaret Atwood is a poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist,…
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National Poetry Month: giovanni singleton
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Read More: National Poetry Month: giovanni singletonThe beauty of poetry is that is can exist outside conventional form, instead twisting and moving to a poet’s intent. The avant-garde poem below by giovanni singleton transformed words into images, created a cage made out of birds, the “caged bird.” singleton received her BA from American University in Washington,…