Podcasts about poetry festival

Simona Garbarino"Taccuino delle molte me"Prefazione di Lella CostaLieto Colle Editorewww.ronzanieditore.itC'è un alberoabbastanza solo per godere appieno del sole,poi c'è un prato abbastanza verdeda far invidia,poi c'è un uomo né vecchio né giovaneche aspetta,la mano destra appoggiata al troncola fronte offerta al vento.Non so se l'autrice preferisca definirsi poeta o poetessa, e poco conta: il fatto è che Simona Garbarino sa scrivere poesie. Ma belle, eh? Belle proprio. Perché ama smodatamente le parole, e le sceglie con cura assoluta, e le combina con la sapienza di chi è insieme artista e artigiana. Perché ha un formidabile senso del ritmo, della metrica, delle rime, e contemporaneamente racconta storie – magari piccole, magari intime, spesso sorprendenti, e soprattutto sempre vestite da un'impercettibile, delicata ironia. Perché ha una voce. Mi ha fatto venire in mente Wisława Szymborska ma anche (Simo, guarda che per me è un complimentone!) Guido Gozzano, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Vivian Lamarque. E Amelia Rosselli, perché ha un cuore che anch'io “preferisco largamente a ogni altra burrasca”. Perché ho una nuova amica, ed è un regalo bellissimo. Grazie, ragazza. (dalla prefazione di Lella Costa)Simona Garbarino (Genova, 1965) è attrice di teatro e attrice comica, con numerose esperienze televisive al fianco di Marcello Cesena (su Mediaset in diverse edizioni di “Mai dire…”, su Rai2 in varie edizioni di “Quelli che il calcio”, su TV8 all'interno del Gialappa Show). È pedagogista, formatrice, docente universitaria, poetessa. La prima pubblicazione risale al 2020 con Poesie del risveglio (Edizioni ZonaContemporanea), vincitrice nella sezione “Poetry” all'interno dell'“Actors&Poetry Festival” di Genova. Nel 2022 con la Rivista di Poesia «Fili d'aquilone» n°60 pubblica la silloge Cerimoniosi silenzi. Partecipa a festival di poesia in Italia e in Francia (Casa de la Poésie El Cactus di Ostuni, Versipelle – Comunità Poetica della Campania, Festival Faim di Lione etc.). Diplomata e specializzata presso la Libera Università dell'Autobiografia di Anghiari, conduce atelier di scrittura autobiografica, immaginativa e poetica. Promuove la diffusione della poesia in ambito sociale, educativo, riabilitativo e formativo.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Hometown Radio 04/21/25 3p: Preview of the upcoming SLO Poetry Festival

No matter why you love baseball - ballparks, the players, the skill, the atmosphere - it's also perfect fodder for poets around the world to talk about their love of the game. Worcester is home to the National Baseball Poetry Festival, celebrating the intersection of America's pastime and the timeless art of poetry. This year's event at Polar Park and other venues includes all kinds of exciting activities, and everyone is invited. Founder Steven Biondolillo talks with Nichole about everything the Festival has to offer on this week's show.

Student visas are terminated for some international students at California colleges. Also, Sac State President Luke Wood talks about football's Spring Game. Finally, the Sierra Poetry Festival. Student Visa Terminations

The Morecambe Poetry festival hosts Ian McMillan and the Verb at the Morecambe Winter Gardens, for a special recording with poets Pam Ayres, Raymond Antrobus and Henry Normal, three performers much- loved by audiences.Pam Ayres takes us back to the beginning of her career with the first poem she ever performed live whilst working for the Royal Air Force. This preceded her memorable winning appearance on the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks. Raymond Antrobus reads from a long sequence of poems written after he learned he was going to be a father. One of his poems describes the sign language his hearing son - born in 2021 - communicated with before he could speak. Raymond's own deafness was diagnosed when he was six.Henry Normal has a long association with the Morecambe Poetry festival. He was involved in its creation and is almost its resident poet. He reads poems inspired by libraries saying he would not have become a writer were it not for free access to the wide world through the pages of books. Produced by Susan Roberts

JACKSON — The City of Jackson will host a poetry festival Saturday from 5-8 p.m. at the Jackson Community House. Aspiring poets ages 12 and up are invited to participate in the open mic portion of the evening. Those interested in performing must register for a fee of . Poets will have the opportunity to share original works related to family or the community, with each performance limited to three minutes. The event is hosted by Jimmie Pugh Ware, a well-known figure in the region. The multi-talented writer, speaker, youth mentor and therapist has spent years working with the youth...Article Link

Love poems, war poems, poems about grief, joy, rage, loss, despair................ Poems about nature, historical figures, missing home, loneliness, - YOU NAME IT! It's all covered in yet another superb poetry festival in Cork this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For most people, the “poetry reading” conjures stuffy intonation styles, cheap wine in plastic cups, and polite clapping. But for a riotous underground scene in 1980s Montreal, the poetry reading was the site for radical experimentation in artistic performance. At the Ultimatum Urban Poetry Festival, which first took place in 1985, literary all stars like William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, John Giorno, and Herbert Huncke performed alongside obscure Quebecois poets, all while embracing new technologies and a punk ethos to push poetry to its limits. The event—which ultimately dissolved into financial near-ruin and briefly required one of its organizers to flee the country to escape his creditors—broke boundaries in poetry and performance that have hardly been paralleled since.Until recently, recordings from the Ultimatum Festival were mostly kept in personal archives, and considered lost to many of the people who were part of the events. This episode recovers some of these recordings, made newly available for research since their digitization by a team at SpokenWeb. Featured alongside these recovered recordings are oral history interviews conducted by the “Listening Queerly Across Generational Divides” team—led by Principal Investigator Mathieu Aubin and researchers Ella Jando-Saul, Sophia Magliocca, Misha Solomon and Rowan Nancarrow—whose unique approach to archival study considers what it means to reconstruct a literary  event from the margins.This episode was produced by Frances Grace Fyfe, with support from Mathieu Aubin and the Listening Queerly Across Generational Divides team. Mastering and original sound by Scott Girouard.ARCHIVAL AUDIOAll archival audio played in this episode is from SpokenWeb's Ultimatum collection—including interviews conducted by Mathieu Aubin and Ella Jando-Saul with Alan Lord, Fortner Anderson, Sheila Urbanoski and Jerome Poynton, as a way of building this archival collection—with the exception of one clip of Alan Lord sourced from here. WORKS CITEDSchulman, Sarah. The Gentrification of The Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination. University of California Press, 2013. Aubin, Mathieu. "Listening Queerly for Queer Sonic Resonances in The Poetry Series at Sir George Williams University, 1966 to 1971." ESC: English Studies in Canada, vol. 46 no. 2, 2020, p. 85-100. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2020.a903543.FURTHER READING / LISTENINGLord, Alan. High Friends in Low Places. Guernica Press, 2021. Stanton, Victoria and Vince Tinguely. Impure, Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice and Oral history of Spoken Word in Montreal. Conundrum Press, 2001."What's that noise? Listening Queerly to the Ultimatum Festival." Produced by Ella Jando-Saul. The SpokenWeb Podcast, 19 June 2023, https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/episodes/whats-that-noise-listening-queerly-to-the-ultimatum-festival-archives/ 

Today's show marks 25 years since the foundation of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival in Co. Roscommon. This year's festival takes place over the May Bank weekend, May 3 - 5. We spoke to the Director,  Joseph Woods about the festival and his new book, Veld Fires. We also feature poems by Eva Bourke whose Tattoos was published this year, and Patrick Deeley, who reads from his new collection, Keepsake.We also interview the Welsh poet Tony Curtis , whose new collection is Leaving the Hills. Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry' from The Hare's Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it. Incidental music Wanderlust by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckleyMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comArtwork by Freya SirrTo subscribe to Books for Breakfast go to your podcast provider of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google etc) and search for the podcast then hit subscribe or follow, or simply click the appropriate button above. Support the Show.

Prisoners in Louisiana often get inadequate medical care. Gov. Jeff Landry recently signed policies that limit the release of the state's sickest patients. So, what does that mean for those patients and the healthcare system that cares for them?  Richard A. Webster, investigative reporter for Verite News, has been digging into that question. He joins the show to discuss his recent reporting.  April is National Poetry Month and New Orleans based award-winning multi-disciplinary artist José Torres-Tama is kicking things off with the second annual Poetry Without Borders Verse & Music Festival.  Torres-Tama and Jennifer Pagen, a poet and performer, discuss their lives as African and Latin American wordsmiths, and give us a preview of the upcoming festival.  A year after a deadly tornado tore through Rolling Fork, Miss., residents are still struggling to rebuild.  Danny McArthur, reporter with the Gulf States Newsroom, has more on the barriers keeping people in one mobile home community from rebuilding their lives. ___ Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Diane Mack. Our managing producer is Alana Schrieber. Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell are assistant producers. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman. You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12 and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A multilingual poetry festival held in Cork City each November since 2013, Ó Bhéal is proud to present its annual Winter Warmer weekend.One of the highlights of Cork's literary calendar, this unique event hosts over 30 renowned poets and performers from Ireland and 7-8 other countries. Paul Casey is the Director of OBhéal, and Elmarie chatted to him about this year's gathering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we're starting off with a stop in Clarksdale at the 8th Annual Cruzn the Crossroads Car & Truck Show, Saturday October 28th, at the Delta Blues Museum with Organizer, Shannon Dixon, then we'll cut a corner to Jackson State University's 50th Anniversary of the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, Nov. 1-4th with Dr. Robert Luckett, Event co-chair & Director/Professor, Margaret W. Alexander Research Ctr, and Dr. Maryemma Graham, Educator, Scholar, and Author, before a final stop in Gulfport for the 9th Annual Harrison County Campus Fall Festival, Monday October 30th, at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College with Aaliyah Caldwell, MGCCC Event Representative & Sherri Smith, Director of Communications and Marketing... Plus, we'll check out what's happening around your neck of the woods!Next Stop, Mississippi is your on-air source for information about upcoming events and attractions across the state. Get to know the real Mississippi! Each week the show's hosts, Germaine Flood and Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, highlight well-known and unknown places in Mississippi with the best food, parks, music and arts. They'll not only tell you what's going on in your neck of the woods, but also share the history and people behind the markets, sporting events, concerts, fairs and festivals all over Mississippi. Hear the personal stories and traditions behind that favorite event you attend each year on Next Stop, Mississippi. Check out our Sipp Events calendar to help plan your next trip! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bronislava Volkova reads "Poetry Festival in Shchelkino (Crimea)" and "Variation on the Theme of Weariness."

Mississippi's State Health Officer discusses how early childhood interventions can identify and help treat illness early.Then, General Motors employees are on strike in the Gulf States.Plus, an archivist from Jackson State University is sharing the story of the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival in this week's History is Lunch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Macca gives James the mic as he talks about the upcoming Sonic Poetry Festival. As part of Sonic Poetry Festival in Naarm/Melbourne,  invites you to an afternoon of collaborative poetry... LEARN MORE The post Saturday 19th, Aug, 2023: Sonic Poetry Festival, Naarm Bread, James WF Roberts appeared first on Saturday Magazine.

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Manuel Iris sits down with two internally recognized poets, Tanya Ko-Hong and Tara Skurtu in the latest episode of “Inside the Writer's Head.” In this episode, Manuel, Tanya, and Tara dive deep into how they define poetry, exploring topics like belonging, otherness, creativity, and the limits of language.Tara Skurtu is the author of "The Amoeba Game” and the upcoming poetry collection "Faith Farm.” She is a two-time U.S. Fulbright grantee and recipient of the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, the Marcia Keach Poetry Prize and two Academy of American Poets prizes. She is the founder of International Poetry Circle, and the national steering committee member of Writers for Democratic Action. Dara is based in Brooklyn, where she is a writing coach for clients worldwide.Tanya Ko-Hong is an internationally published poet, translator, and playwright who champions bilingual poetry and poets. She is the author of five books including “The War Still Within” published in 2019. She holds an MFA degree from Antioch University in Los Angeles. Tanya's work has been published in several journals and anthologies and won the DritËro Agolli Award at the International KorÇare Poetry Festival, several other awards, and she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In 2015, her segmented poem “Comfort Woman” received an honorable mention from the Women's National Book Association and adapted into a play by Tabula RaSa NYC Theater and Performance Lab. Recently, she hosted a multilingual reading and workshop at the Fifth Third Street, New York Poetry Library.

SyD Clips Fran Lock at Sheaf Poetry Festival 2023 This is Fran Lock, throwing blow torch poems at the Sheaf Poetry festival. Please visit them at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_4tIlh7rKA&t=953s and listen to the full event Poetry as Activism, and many many more --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialyetdistanced/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialyetdistanced/support

Hometown Radio 04/03/23 3p: Kevin Patrick Sullivan and Patti Sullivan preview the 40th Annual SLO Poetry Festival

Calgary's Poet Laureate, Wakefield Brewster, explains the intersection of art and healing. Wakefield and I discuss unlearning, why communication is essential, and how art has the potential to soften the blow of heavy messages. Wakefield speaks about getting our thoughts out on paper—even the darker ones. Finally, Wakefield shares his early experience as a classically trained musician and how that shaped his future with poetry.About Wakefield Brewster:Wakefield Brewster is one of Canada's most popular and prolific Performance Poets. He is the Current Poet Laureate of Calgary, and 3-Time Calgary Poetry Slam Champion & Team Captain. He was the Inaugural Poet Of Honour at the People's Poetry Festival, and was appointed as the First Resident Poet & Spoken Word Artist of The Grand Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. Wakefield sits on the Board of Directors of the E.A.R. Society —Emergency Artist's Relief — which provides emergency relief funding and affordable Health Care for Artists.As the founder of Page2Stage Productions, Wakefield has been bringing Poetry to students for over 21 years by building communities and engaging in volunteering, leadership and mentorship for youth, through the arts. He is also an advocate for Healing Arts & Alternative Medicine; Mental Wellness & Recovery. He holds a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, and is the Lead Therapist, owner and operator of WakeFull Wellness Massage Therapy and HealingSpace.Connect with Wakefield Brewster: Web: https://wakefieldbrewster.comIG: @wakefield_brewsterFB: @Wakefield Brewster aka da lyrical pitbullLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wakefield-brewster-91658a23/Twitter: @lyricalpitbull

The Bergen International Slam Poetry Festival was recently held in the city of Bergen, and it featured a host of talented slam poets and poets. This episode features some of the poets present that day, and they sat with moderator and Festival Director Doriansgrave, to speak on their journey through Slam and why it appeals to them. This is part 1 of that conversation.

Randy co-founded Freedom Of Speech Poetry Festival, and produced for eleven years. In 2004 he wrote The Ballad Of Dred Scott, a historical fiction novella about a man who is chosen to be the champion of the universe to bring an end to slavery in America before the Civil War. And how his fight for freedom helped Abraham Lincoln become president. The book was recently picked up by Amazon Kindle and during a promotion sold a hundred copies in about an hour. The book was used to teach courses at two universities. - www.jaxtr.com/charliegorillaTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

Carrboro Mayor Damon Seils spoke with 97.9 The Hill's Andrew Stuckey on Friday, October 7th.  He discussed the upcoming town council meeting, a look back at the Carrboro Music Festival, a look ahead to the West End Poetry Festival, and more. The post Carrboro: Town Council Meeting, West End Poetry Festival, and More appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

The Bergen International Slam Poetry Festival was recently held in the city of Bergen, and it featured a host of talented slam poets and poets. This episode features some of the poets present that day, and they sat with moderator and Festival Director Doriansgrave, to speak on their journey through Slam and why it appeals to them. This is part 1 of that conversation.

We're all about the word this week on Just The Tonic. Katie meets the Bard of Barnsley football club and presenter of BBC Radio Three's The Verb, poet Ian McMillan. He's on a mission to get everyone in the world writing - then he'll have a day off!We hear from young poets at Raddlebarn Primary School in Selly Oak whose poems feature in the Birmingham Children's Poetry Festival. Head of Education at Birmingham Cathedral tells us about the festival and we hear from Birmingham's Poet Laureate Casey Bailey.And we're blown away by the youngest member of The People's Orchestra, 8 year-old cellist Aurora Chin Chan! www.thepeoplesorchestra.com Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin Luther has said, “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” If not directly changing the world, one can surely do it by changing one's own life. We know the power of putting thoughts on paper through writing. And, who doesn't love their favorite authors who have the power to transport us to a different world? These writers enter our hearts as they relate with us through their stories. It is reading such relatable books that help us develop ideas, inculcate healthy changes, or just feel the emotions we want to feel. About Eric Tinsay Valles Eric is the Director of the Poetry Festival in Singapore. Eric Tinsay Valles has published two poetry collections, A World in Transit (2011) and After the Fall: dirges among ruins (2014), for which he was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. He has co-edited six anthologies, Get Lucky (2015), Sg Poems 2015-2016 (2016), Anima Methodi (2018), The Nature of Poetry (2019), and The Atelier of Healing (2021), and A Given Grace (2021). In 2013, he won the Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition Prize. He writes about the migrant experience and personal trauma with humor and empathy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

Quelle: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Westwärts 1 & 2 Sprecher: Christian Brückner, Archiv W0193365.001 O-Töne: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, "Materialsammlung", Archiv W0543892.001 Anmod: Am 23. April 1975 wurde der deutsche Lyriker Rolf Dieter Brinkmann in London von einem Auto überfahren. Verwirrt durch den Linksverkehr war er vor den Wagen gelaufen. Er war sofort tot. Zuvor hatte er am ersten internationalen Poetry Festival in Cambridge teilgenommen. Kurz nach Brinkmanns Tod erschien sein Gedichtband „Westwärts 1 & 2“. Er wurde ein Meilenstein der Neuen Deutschen Lyrik der 70er Jahre. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann war der „wilde Mann“ in der Literatur, immer auf Krawall gebürstet. In seiner Lyrik finden sich jedoch auch überraschend leise Töne. Gerade wenn er ganz still wird, wehrt sich Rolf Dieter Brinkmann am intensivsten gegen Angepasstheit und gesellschaftliche Normen. Kerstin Bachtler erinnert an ihn mit seinem Gedicht „Oh, friedlicher Mittag“. Es liest Christian Brückner.

I talk to Monterey Bay Area poet, translator, and educator Kent Leatham about his writing.

I talk to Monterey Bay Area writer Kenny Garcia about his poetry, the Monterey Poetry Festival, and his involvement with Boukra Press.

Randy co-founded Freedom Of Speech Poetry Festival, and produced for eleven years. In 2004 he wrote The Ballad Of Dred Scott, a historical fiction novella about a man who is chosen to be the champion of the universe to bring an end to slavery in America before the Civil War. And how his fight for freedom helped Abraham Lincoln become president. The book was recently picked up by Amazon Kindle and during a promotion sold a hundred copies in about an hour. The book was used to teach courses at two universities. - www.jaxtr.com/charliegorillaTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

Randy co-founded Freedom Of Speech Poetry Festival, and produced for eleven years. In 2004 he wrote The Ballad Of Dred Scott, a historical fiction novella about a man who is chosen to be the champion of the universe to bring an end to slavery in America before the Civil War. And how his fight for freedom helped Abraham Lincoln become president. The book was recently picked up by Amazon Kindle and during a promotion sold a hundred copies in about an hour. The book was used to teach courses at two universities. - www.jaxtr.com/charliegorillaTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

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The Show Do Tell Reading Series made a one-day return at Governor's Island for the New York City Poetry Festival. I'm definitely hoping to get the series going again in a more consistent format by 2022 (or before!). But until then this lovely summer day with three extremely talented readers and my amazing fiancé recording the reading will have to do. I could not have done a facsimile of our standard format without Brendan, Amy and Aaron being awesome collaborators. Hope you enjoy! Brendan Lorber is a poet, prose writer, and editor who lives in a little castle on the highest geographic point in Brooklyn, across from the Green-Wood Cemetery. Over two decades in the making, his first full-length book just came out. It's called If this is paradise why are we still driving? and is published by the Subpress Collective. He's also written several chapbooks, most recently Unfixed Elegy and Other Poems (Butterlamb) He's appeared in the American Poetry Review, Fence, McSweeney's, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Amy Barone's latest poetry collection, We Became Summer, from New York Quarterly Books, was released in early 2018. She wrote chapbooks Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Barone's poetry has appeared in Café Review, Paterson Literary Review, Sensitive Skin, and Standpoint (UK), among other publications. She belongs to PEN America Center and the brevitas poetry community. From Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, she lives in New York City. AARON POOCHIGIAN earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His first book of poetry, The Cosmic Purr (Able Muse Press), was published in 2012, and his second book Manhattanite, which won the Able Muse Poetry Prize, came out in 2017. His third book, American Divine, won the Richard Wilbur Award and will come out in 2020. His thriller in verse, Mr. Either/Or, was released by Etruscan Press in the fall of 2017. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY.

Join hosts Chibbi & Rooster as they feature the new Houston Poet Laurette Outspoken Bean for a night of poetry and conversation. Tune in live to get to know the person behind the poetry and be part of the conversation! The New Jersey born, San Antonio raised, H-Town based military brat was introduced to the arts and world cultures at a very young age and has not let go of it. "An energetic pioneer for poetry, in all its different sizes and shapes, Bean is dedicated to making sure that poets get heard," Emily Hinds of Arts and Culture Magazine wrote of Bean. Bean uses poetry to engage different mediums and institutions to create new and engaging art, such as being the first poet to perform on Houston Ballet's main stage with their production "Play." He has also been commissioned to write and perform a national campaign on diversity for Pabst Blue Ribbon and VICE while creating/producing his own festival Plus Fest: the EVERYTHING plus POETRY Festival. In 2008, Bean helped develop Texas' largest youth poetry slam organization and slam team, Meta-Four Houston, with Shannon Buggs and DiverseWorks. In which he stills coaches and uses it as a vehicle today to mentor Houston's youth. He started performing spoken-word in 2005. Outspoken Bean is a true renaissance man and culture bearer through poetry, Bean willingly seeks, finds, collaborates, and creates new ways for people to experience poetry through multiple mediums.

Randy co-founded Freedom Of Speech Poetry Festival, and produced for eleven years. In 2004 he wrote The Ballad Of Dred Scott, a historical fiction novella about a man who is chosen to be the champion of the universe to bring an end to slavery in America before the Civil War. And how his fight for freedom helped Abraham Lincoln become president. The book was recently picked up by Amazon Kindle and during a promotion sold a hundred copies in about an hour. The book was used to teach courses at two universities. - www.jaxtr.com/charliegorillaFor Your Listening Pleasure for these Lockdown / Stay-At-Home COVID and Variants Times - For all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; America's Soul Doctor with Ken Unger; Back in Control Radio Show with Dr. David Hanscom, MD; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Imagine More Success Radio Show with Syndee Hendricks and Thomas Hydes; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; Two Good To Be True with Justina Marsh and Peter Marsh; and many other!That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv

எது நவீன கவிதை – திரு ஜெயமோகன் 2016 ஜூலை 31 கவிதை திருவிழா 2016 – சிங்கப்பூர் Poetry Festival

எது நவீன கவிதை – திரு ஜெயமோகன் 2016 ஜூலை 31 கவிதை திருவிழா 2016 – சிங்கப்பூர் Poetry Festival

Beat Poet Laureate Paul Richmond talks about his experience with his Poetry Festival, Juggling and relationships. "Paul's work is best described as political and deadpan, delivered wryly humorously in his own style. He has been called Assassin of Apathy – "power of words / humor - on the unthinkable, the unsolvable, to analyze, to digest, to give birth, to creativity and hope" His work has been published in six books, in many journals, magazines, anthologies and poetry collections.

Updated at 9:34 a.m. Today on Insight, why California is closely watching a $2.2 trillion infrastructure proposal on Capitol Hill. We also look at closing the digital divide and cleaner water across the Central Valley through a major boost to transportation. Plus, a look at Sacramento’s progress in making the city’s cannabis industry equitable for those hardest hit. Today's Guests The New York Times California Correspondent Shawn Hubler explains how California stands to benefit from a $2.2 trillion infrastructure proposal by President Biden and the odds it passes through Congress The City of Sacramento's Office of Cannabis Management Head Davina Smith discusses the Cannabis Opportunity Reinvestment and Equity program (CORE) to assist individuals and communities disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs in entering the cannabis industry CORE graduates Labeebah Rahman and Ashtyn Gibson on the benefits of the program and the concerns with a Tuesday City Council agenda item, which proposes a moratorium on new cannabis permits and expansions in their district Nevada County Arts Council will present the 5th Annual Sierra Poetry Festival on April 10th and 11th. Festival director Eliza Tudor and Shelly Covert with the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe discuss the free festival with online and live performances offered free of charge. Poet and artist Tanaya Winder is the keynote performance. 

Carmen tells us all about Saybrook U's first annual Film, Book, and Poetry Festival beginning July 19 through the 24, 2021, as part of our 50th Anniversary celebration. To register or sign up to submit an entry, go to https://app.groupize.com/e/saybrook-university-film-book-and-poetry-festival. To reach out with questions, email at SayFBPfest@Saybrook.edu

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Chicago’s largest youth poetry festival, Louder Than A Bomb, will be held virtually this year as organizers celebrate the 21st anniversary of the event. Reset brings two poets to discuss what the festival means to them.

We invite our friend and former District 32 Texas State Representative candidate, Eric Holguin, to catch up and dive back into politics! This time Eric is not blazing the campaign trail as he reminisces with us on his early segue into running for office and the journey that's followed since his eager political start. In this conversation with Eric, we talk about everything from the future of American politics to what we can begin doing today to help positively impact our world around us. To visit Eric’s website click hereFollow Eric on Twitter & Instagram @EricHolguinTXFor Cory Atkinson's article on this episode click hereInterested in running for public office? Click the link here for more infoWanna sign up for the Open Mic we are hosting a part of the People's Poetry Festival? Click here and scroll down to the middle of the page and look for the Open Mic sign up Friday Feb. 26th 9-11pm CST Connect with us at Revolve One:Visit everything Revolve One by clicking hereTo visit the Revolve One Web Page click hereTo follow us on Facebook click hereEmail the show at feedback@revolveone.comWe are on Instagram & Twitter @revolveone PowerUp Hero Podcast The PowerUp Hero show is also about celebrating our most amazing community heroes.Support the show (http://patreon.com/revolveone)

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my 2020 WIOX Radio conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon.  Hear his views on poetry, teaching, and on the process and challenges of producing last year's Sharon Springs Poetry Festival (the Festival's fourth year) virtually during Covid.  Please note that the Festival was upcoming when this show was initially broadcast in October. A great highlight of the show:  Hear Paul Muldoon read his poem, “The Bannisters” from his 2020 poetry collection Frolic and Detour. Paul Muldoon is the author of 14 major collections of poetry, innumerable smaller collections, works of criticism, opera libretti, books for children, song lyrics, radio and television drama.  His poetry has been translated into twenty languages. The Times Literary Supplement has described Paul Muldoon as “the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War”.  Roger Rosenblatt, writing in The New York Times Book Review, described Paul Muldoon as “one of the great poets of the past hundred years, who can be everything in his poems – word-playful, lyrical, hilarious, melancholy.  And angry.  Only Yeats before him could write with such measured fury.” Also featured: Planet Poet's Poet-At-Large, Pamela Manché Pearce and composer Robert Cucinotta' s recent work - “Wagner Night at Brighton Beach.”            Yours in Radio, Sharon  Planet Poet – Words in Space: A WIOX Community Radio Production Planet Poet theme music by Robert Cucinotta 

As promised, the bonus feature of some content that we couldn't fit into Episode 3! This is a small miscellany of discussion, mentions, epiphanies, and diatribes, featuring some of mine & Annie's favourite poets. Social media links below. Free Vers(e) is on the 2021 StAnza poetry programme! StAnza, Scotland's Poetry Festival, is set to run an incredible series of events from 6-14 March this year, most of which are free and online, featuring poets like Jericho Brown, Will Harris, Naomi Shihab Nye, Roger Robinson, Ink Asher Hemp, Imtiaz Dharker, Nadine Aisha Jassat, and our podcast compatriots, the Dead Ladies Show! Free Vers(e) will be airing a special bonus episode for StAnza on gay poet, and Scotland's first Makar of modern times, Edwin Morgan, on Tuesday 9 March, 6-6.45pm GMT. Tickets are FREE. Donations to StAnza encouraged. Check out stanzapoetry.org/festival (or @stanzapoetry on IG and Twitter) for more information. *** Audio Summary 00:00-13:06 -- Introduction & Discussion of two poems by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 13:06-21:53 -- Shout-outs for Harry Josephine Giles, Gray Crosbie, Nat Raha, Vahni Capildeo and Rachel Plummer, feat. rant against TS Eliot. *** Socials Joshua Jennifer Espinoza -- Twitter @sadqueer4life & website https://joshuajenniferespinoza.com/ Harry Josephine Giles -- Twitter @HarryJosieGiles & website https://harryjosephine.com/ Vahni Capildeo -- via Poetry Foundation https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vahni-capildeo Nat Raha -- via Boiler House Press https://www.boilerhouse.press/product-page/of-sirens-body-faultlines Gray Crosbie -- Twitter @GrayCrosbie Rachel Plummer -- Twitter @smaychel & website https://rachelplummer.co.uk/

Not every artist considers their practice a small business, but the government does. Many creatives use this fact to their advantage by using business structures to grow and/or fund their practice. An artist will find several benefits as an independant, for-profit small business, and a non-profit provides another model of funding & structure that’s more commonly recognized by artists. Should an artist consider a non-profit status to help their practice?  We will have two guests to offer their experiences on utilizing these business structures to their benefit.2017 Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs Artist in Resident and 2016 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Idea Fund Recipient, Emanuelee Outspoken Bean is a performance poet, writer, compassionate mentor, electric entertainer and educator. Bean uses poetry to collaborate with other mediums and institutions such as being the first poet to perform on a main stage production of Houston Ballet's Play. Also, creating his own festival, Plus Fest the EVERYTHING plus POETRY Festival. That work ethic has taken him to perform in Trinidad to Miami to South Dakota to Broadway, over 35 states, 200 universities, annually performing in front of thousands of people and across the vast Houston Metropolitan where he inspires people from all walks of life. Also, Bean was commissioned to write and perform a national campaign on diversity for Pabst Blue Ribbon and VICE. He was the 2011 Texas poet laureate nominee, ranked 9th in the Individual World Poetry Slam 2013, ranked 2nd in collaborative poetry at Group Piece Finals 2013, and ranked 9th at National Poetry Slam 2014. He started performing spoken-word in 2005. In his senior year at Prairie View A&M, Bean founded and coached the University's first poetry slam team. In their first year, they won the title in their region and grabbed the 8th place ranking in the country at College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI '08).Marlana Doyle is originally from Massachusetts and graduated from Point Park University in 2001 with a BA in Dance. Marlana is the former Artistic Director of Met Dance, where she held various positions for seventeen years. Under her direction, Marlana’s vision and leadership catapulted the company to new levels of excellence and growth while holding tightly to the company’s long tradition of diversity and versatility in its dancers, choreographers, collaborators, and content. Marlana is the President & CEO of the Institute of Contemporary Dance Houston which houses Houston Contemporary professional concert dance company and HC2, a youth training company. Marlana is a member of Dance Source Houston, Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) and Dance USA, spending 2009-2012 as an emerging leader at both APAP and Dance USA. She was awarded the Dance USA Leadership Mentee Fellowship for the institute of training in 2012 and was a mentor for the same program in 2019. She also recently completed her three-year tenure as a Dance USA Board of Trustee member and Artistic Director Council Chair. Marlana has also served on many grant and organizational panels for the Houston Arts Alliance and Dance Source Houston. As a performer, Marlana has danced and generated roles in a range of works by renowned choreographers and artists. Marlana is also a guest teacher and an award-winning choreographer for her students in Houston and throughout the United States. She has choreographed for the City of Houston, Levi's and Walmart, Mercury Ensemble, Apollo Chamber Players, Houston Chamber Choir, Houston Symphony, TUTS and Lamar University. She lives in Sugar Land, TX with her husband Ben and her two adorable daughters Olivia and Evie.Music: "Ike is Gone" by Nick GaitanSupport the show (https://fresharts.org/about-fresh-arts/friends-of-fresh-arts/)

2020 is a year of literary anniversaries. As well as the 250th anniversary of James Hogg, which we featured a few episodes ago, it also marks the 100th anniversary of Scotland’s first Makar, or National Poet, Edwin Morgan. We talked to Robyn Marsack, the chair of StAnza, Scotland’s Poetry Festival and a trustee of the Edwin Morgan Trust about the work they do and she reflects on Edwin Morgan’ legacy as a poet and as a translator. The spectre of Scotland’s other national bard, Robert Burns, burns brightly in a new Young Adult series set around a time travelling History teacher who teaches in a school in the heart of Dumfries and Galloway. We talked to author Yvonne Ridley about the first in the series, The Caledonians: Mr Petrie’s Apprentice.

Missed our Poetry Night: Peace? No worries, we have the scoop. Reflect with us on a night we won’t soon forget. Remember, if you are in CC, TX the People’s Poetry Festival is happening 2/27-2/29. Be sure to click the link below for a list and schedule of events. Plus, we are hosting the Violence, and Healing From It Open Mic on Saturday 2/29 from 7-8pm at TAMUCC, University Center 320 (Bayview)Link to the People’s Poetry Festival Facebook Page Click HereFor more info on the Poetry On The Beach In Rockport click hereRevolve One Facebook Page:http://facebook.com/reachrevolveInstagram & Twitter:@revolveoneSupport the show (http://patreon.com/revolveone)

It is an incredible week for poetry in the Coastal Bend. We have our open mic Poetry Night: Peace on Wednesday the 26th, event details in the link below. Plus, from 2/27-2/29 the People’s Poetry Festival is happening in CC, link to their facebook page below too. We sat down with Dr. Robin Carstensen and Nicole Bren to discuss the upcoming events and have an insightful conversation on poetry. This is a special upload you won’t want to miss. Happy writing! Be sure to follow us on social media as we will be sharing updates all week long on both events. Link to our next Poetry Night: Peace Event FB Page Click Here.When: 2/26/2020Time: 8-10pmWhere: At the ExchangeLink to the People’s Poetry Festival Facebook Page HereFor the Writer’s Studio Facebook Page click hereRevolve One Facebook Page:http://facebook.com/reachrevolveInstagram & Twitter:@revolveoneSupport the show (http://patreon.com/revolveone)

Were Back! with Episode 10, Part 2 of the Verve Poetry Festival. with chats and poems from Momtaza Mehri, Theresa Lola, Sophie Collins, Vani Capildeo and Sumita Chakraborty. Each of these poets deserves an episode to themselves, but in one wonderful day in February I got to have Quick sit down interviews with all of them. our conversation presented with great poems I've gleaned from their back catalogue.

In this issue, we feature the music and winners from the 2018 Mass Poetry Festival live Dialogue Submission workshop. Editor David G. Walker performed a song for participants who wrote, revised, and submitted work in response for consideration. The winners featured in this issue are Sarah Letourneau and Peter Urkowitz. More info at www.goldwalkmag.com

This episode originally aired  Friday, August 30th, from 4-6pm EDT on CFRC 101.9fm‘s ‘finding a voice’. In the first hour, from the final day of a 3-day annual poetry festival, Poets @ Artfest V, you’ll hear readings by Eric Folsom, John Donlan, Leslie Saunders, and Kingston Poet Laureate Jason Heroux.In the second hour, and in that same event and Continue Reading

A live recording of feature poet, Di Cousens, at the Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival edition of Be Mused, on the 27th July 2019. The recording also includes poetry by the convener of the event, Cheung-Ling Wong.

Broadcasted on Friday, August 9th, from 4-6pm EDT on CFRC 101.9fm‘s ‘finding a voice’, in this episode you’ll hear great works from the June 29th fifth and final session of the first day of a 3-day annual poetry festival, Poets @ Artfest V, you’ll hear a reading by Honey Novick. Moving into the second day Continue Reading

by Astrid Ferguson Hey so you wanna make money huh? You want to secure that bag, hunty?! Yas! Well let me share with you what I learned during my observation at the NYC Poetry Festival and exhibits I have attended with my husband, Jerel Ferguson . He is a fine art oil painting artist so we are in vending and exhibitions quite often. Aside from that, many of you may know I am an introvert. Major surprise huh? So events where I have to sell myself is very uncomfortable for a fine gal like me. So if you are like me and you struggle with this too, I developed a Securing The Bag Checklist that you can take with you to any vending events. Yas girl! See I got chu! Visit www.astridferguson.com follow us on the gram https://www.instagram.com/imcwd.podcast Wanna be considered for our next episode? Leave a review and send us an e-mail at imcwd.podcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/astrid-ferguson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/astrid-ferguson/support

This is the first year the event will take place in Lismore. Chairperson Gene Barry and committee member Alan Murphy joined Mary in studio to give details of what you can expect.

Rania Ahmed, winner of the MSW Prize People's Choice Award 2018, and feature performer at the 2019 Melbourne Spoken Word and Poetry Festival, is our guest this week. 

Brendan Bonsack is a poet, musician, photographer and film maker. It was a pleasure to talk to him about all those things and more. Brendan is also on the committee for Melbourne Spoken Word who are launching their Spoken Word and Poetry Festival on July 12th. Get around it! We're very lucky to hear some music from Brendan on the show and you can hear a lot more of his music right here. https://brendanbonsack.com/albums/ His work is also available on Apple Music and Spotify, but if you're going to stream music then use Apple because they pay a MUCH higher rate to musicians. FACT. Links referred to in the show. http://movingpoems.com/ http://accidentalbedfellows.com/ https://www.3cr.org.au/spoken-word

In this week's show, we talk with two of the poets featuring in the 2019 Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival, Arielle Cottingham and Tariro Mavondo.00:00 - Arielle Cottingham21:20 - Tariro MavondoTexas-born Afro-Latina artist, Arielle Cottingham, is now living in Tasmania and joins us on the phone to talk about the body and performance, microphone and stagecraft, differences in the US and Australian "slam scene", and the confluence of dance and poetry. She also talks about performer self-care, and the lasting friendships she has made in the Melbourne poetry community.Tariro Mavondo is an awarding winning spoken word performer, actor, dancer, voice over artist, theatre director and educator. She is a Co-Founder of Still Waters African Women’s Storytelling Collective and Centre of Poetic Justice. Tariro talks about "embracing the shadow", her workshops with young writers, the anxieties that young people face and the role that the arts can play in affecting social change. She also discusses decolonisation as a poetic and practical life practice.Tariro has been admitted to an International Summer School Seminar on the subject of decolonisation in Barcelona for a week starting on July 8th, and is raising money to help meet the costs.The Melbourne Spoken Word and Poetry Festival begins on 12th July and runs until the 28th.

Were Back! with Episode 10, Part 2 of the Verve Poetry Festival. with chats and poems from Momtaza Mehri, Theresa Lola, Sophie Collins, Vani Capildeo and Sumita Chakraborty

A special episode in conjunction with the Sheaf Poetry Festival 2019, featuring Vahni Capildeo, Warda Yassin, Ian Humphreys, Rebecca Tamas, Young Poet-in-Residence Georgie Woodhead and Rachael Allen. Co-hosted by Mark Pajak.

In episode 8 of the podcast, we look back to the 4 days of poetic splendour that was the Verve poetry festival that took place at the Old rep theatre Birmingham in February. Featuring discussion with Cynthia Miller and Anthony Anaxagorou alongside poetry from Inua Ellams RAP Party poets: Jess May Davies, Casey Bailey, Aliyah Hasina & Sean Colletti. If you like the Pod, please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VerseFirstPoetry

In episode 8 of the podcast, we look back to the 4 days of poetic splendor that was the Verve poetry festival that took place at the Old rep theatre Birmingham in February. Featuring discussion with Cynthia Miller and Anthony Anaxagorou alongside poetry from Inua Ellams RAP Party poets: Jess May Davies, Casey Bailey, Aliyah Hasina & Sean Colletti.If you like the Pod, please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/VerseFirstPoetry

April is National Poetry Month. Mitchell celebrates with P. Scott Cunningham, founder of O, Miami, one of the most significant poetry events in the country. Mitchell and Scott talk about the past, present and exciting future of poetry, as well as Scott's new book, “Ya Te Veo.” All this while enjoying a delicious brunch from The Café at Books&Books. Please listen, share and comment on our podcast landing page or on our social media: @BooksandBooks (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter)  Host: Mitchell Kaplan Showrunner: Carmen Lucas Editor: Andy Stermer Links: https://booksandbooks.com/ http://www.omiami.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jazzmen Victoria is a spoken word artist from Dallas Texas, she has been performing spoken word since 2016. She was also published in an anthology “Page Publishing Vol 1 presents Stupid Girl in Love” and self-published her own chapbook “The Birthing” in 2017, and then “Wildflower” Chapbook following in 2018. Jazzmen Victoria has been a writer since grade school but didn’t start taking it seriously until 2015 where she first started writing Stupid Girl in love after being in a domestic violence relationship. It was her way of healing and finally taking charge of what she wanted to do in her life. She writes about healing, being a woman unapologetically and just flourishing in her own, and she encourages other women to do the same. She has performed all around DFW as well as performed in Austin 2018 Poetry Festival. She is a wildflower in full bloom and is on a mission to plant seeds everywhere she goes encouraging and inspiring women like herself to bloom. #WildlyBlooming Facebook @Jazzemn Victoria Instagram @pwer_puff Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5s3-316Sn6JgI8CKXaadIw Website: https://jazzmenvictoria.wixsite.com/wildlyblooming Background theme music: “Miles to Go” by artist: Jay Man, Youtube link: http://OurMusicBox.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Talked with Miles Coon, Founder, Palm Beach Poetry Festival and Elizabeth Dashiell, Palm Beach PR about this year's 15th Annual PB Poetry Festival. It's going to be held at Old School Square in Delray Beach. The special guest poet is Sharon Olds, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. And Tyehimba Jess, also a Pulitzer prize winner will be the Festival's first Poet at Large. The festival runs from January 21-26th. Listeners can get tix/info by going to https://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org.

The Living In Poetry Podcast brings you the best discussions from over the 2 days at this year's Living in Poetry Festival aka LIP Fest - Croydon’s first spoken word festival - brought to you by Well Versed Ink, Writerz and Scribez, Young People Insight and Poets Anonymous. This first series will come in three parts and on this first episode, you’ll hear from spoken word artists LionHeart and Francesca Beard, poetry producer Tom MacAndrew and poetry educator and host Jacob Sam-La Rose who will discuss the spoken word industry and tips on how to navigate it.

This is a very special episode from the Poetry 719 This is Colorado Springs Poetry Festival featuring poet Tess La Fera. We hope you feel inspired and pick up a pen and paper. Start your own journey to poetry and using your voice.

This is what we came up with for the Galway Kinnell Poetry Festival. Make sure you check out our website for details about this session and the upcoming class with Frequency Writers! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/endlessbeautiful/support

Lynne Spigelmire Viti was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a lecturer emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. A graduate of Mercy High School in Baltimore, she attended the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and received her B.A.cum laude in English Literature from Barnard College. After teaching high school English for several years in Stamford, Connecticut and Brookline, Massachusetts, she earned her Ph.D. and J.D. from Boston College.Viti has authored numerous academic articles on legal topics, composition theory and, literature and media. Her first chapbook, Baltimore Girls, was published in March, 2017, and her second collection, The Glamorganshire Bible, in 2018 (both from Finishing Line Press). She is also the author of a poetry microchapbook, (Origami Poems Project 2017). Her poetry, nonfiction and fiction has appeared in over a hundred online and print journals and anthologies, including The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television (2009),The Baltimore Sun,Amuse-Bouche, The Paterson Review, The Little Patuxent Review, Drunk Monkeys, Cultured Vultures, Incandescent Mind and Right Hand Pointing. She won Honorable Mentions in the 2015 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, the 2017 Joe Gouveia Poetry Contest,and the 2015 Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest. She has read her work at Gallery 55 (Natick), MA; Mass. Poetry Festival; Bird-in-Hand /Ivy Bookshop Baltimore, MD; Little Patuxent Review; Book Culture Bookstore, NY, NY; Boston Public Library; Westwood, MA Public Library; Wellfleet, MA Public Library; Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT; Mercy High School, Baltimore, MD; Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, MD; Dover, MA Public Library; New England Mobile Book Fair, Newton, MA; Wellesley College; Old Frog Pond Farm Plein Air Poetry, Harvard, MA; Charlestown Retirement Community (Catonsville, MD); Louisburg Cottages, CountyMayo, Ireland. She blogs at stillinschool.wordpress.com .

The 2018 Melbourne Spoken Word and Poetry Festival is a wide ranging event over three weeks, featuring both performance poets, more literary page poets, and lots more besides. Santo Cazzati speaks with Melbourne Spoken Word founder Benjamin Solah about this new festival. We hear recordings of three out of the many featured artists.

Save these dates! Tuesday 15th May is the 3CR On-air Spoken Word fundraiser for 3CR Community Radio, and 17th May - 3rd June is the Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival.In this program, we talk about these events and hear from some of the performers, Jennifer Compton, Kylie Supski, Tariro Mavondo, Tenda McFly, Tim Evans and Alan Pentland.

On this week's edition of Notes from New Orleans, producers Kelley Crawford and Sarah Holtz meet A Scribe Called Quess , one of the poets appearing at the New Orleans Poetry Festival this weekend.

Poetry in a time of war.Such is the headline by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, or FAZ, in its recent reporting on the dynamic annual poetry festival Meridian Czernowitz, held earlier in September in the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi.Why war? Because the newspaper picked up the subtle influences of the war with Russia in the East on this gracious city far from the front. As international literati gathered to celebrate the word, young men in camouflage and stony faces marched under the chestnut trees.And why Czernowitz?Such was the name of this city from 1774 to 1918 when it was the capital of the Imperial Austrian crownland of Bukovina under the reign of the legendary Habsburg dynasty.In this period it became known as a “Little Vienna” due to its architectural style. And also for the fact it was the home of a growing German-speaking community and German-language university.But the city was always cosmopolitan—a center for both the Ukrainian and Romanian national movements. And in 1908 it was the site of the first Yiddish language conference. Not surprising, as nearly a third of the city by this time was Jewish.The stories of this city and surrounding region have been told in many languages. By the Ukrainian writers Olha Kobylianska and Yuri Fedkovych. The German novelist Gregor von Rezzori and the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. Czernowitz, now known as Chernivtsi, gained a lasting literary mystique.Above all, it is famous as the native city of the Jewish poet Paul Celan, who wrote in German. His renowned and very much analyzed poem ''Death Fugue'' became a sensation for its metaphorical evocation of the Holocaust. The opening lines of the poem read, ''Black milk of daybreak we drink it at nightfall / we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night.''Born in Chernivtsi in 1920, Celan is considered one of the greatest poets ever to have written in the German language in the twentieth century. He survived the Holocaust, but his parents did not. He carried a heavy burden of survivor’s guilt and depression and committed suicide in Paris in 1970.Celan wrote of Chernivsti as a meridian, a kind of immaterial bond that unites people all around the world.Thus the Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival. It is an event built on the foundation of the cultural heritage of Chernivtsi. It celebrates a historical memory and literary legacy of its inhabitants.The stated purpose of the festival is the return of Chernivtsi to the cultural map of Europe and the development of dialogue between contemporary Ukrainian poets and their foreign counterparts.Yevhenia Lopata, the director of the festival, told the website Ukrainska Pravda, “Everything was under our feet. We just needed people who could gather all of this, systematize it, and create an event.”Of course what was underfoot was the multicultural history of Chernivtsi and the multiplicity of languages. And thus one of the central features of Meridian this year was “Like They Do in Babylon.”Groups of poets from various nations would gather on stage, or under the open sky in the center of the city. They read the poems they wrote in their original language. Their fellow poets would follow with translation, or even several translations. And there would not only be translations, but interpretive riffs on the original, or a collage based on motifs from several poems.This Bukovinian Tower of Babel showed, as reported by the FAZ and other German-language media now intrigued by the festival, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joseph Makkos is just back from Mundial Poético de Montevideo and tells us all about his poetry adventures in Uruguay.

Two poet-translators rattle their sabres for a duel of words and French poetry! Listen to MPT's translation duel which took place at Ledbury Poetry Festival, Sunday 9 July 2017. Olivia McCannon and Susan Wicks went head-to-head with their translations of a poem by Ariane Dreyfus. *No poets were harmed in the production of this event*. About the translators: Olivia McCannon is a translator of Balzac and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Susan Wicks’ translations of Valérie Rouzeau have won prizes and her own seventh collection, The Months was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Suzannah spoke with Vahni Capildeo ahead of her Centre Stage reading at the StAnza poetry festival. They discussed growing up in a multilingual culture, thinking in things other than language, constructing prose poems, and the different kinds of audiences that a poet might encounter. Vahni also read her poems 'Louise Bourgeois: Insomnia Drawings' (at 9m53s) and 'Slaughterer' (at 13m14s). Vahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian British writer whose five books and two pamphlets include Measures of Expatriation (Carcanet, 2016), Simple Complex Shapes (Shearsman, 2015) and Utter (Peepal Tree, 2013). She holds a PhD in Old Norse and is interested in multilingualism, creative reworkings, and the boundaries between the human and the natural. Her collaborative work on performance and installation includes responses to Euripides' Bacchae, 'Radical Shakespeare', and Martin Carter's revolutionary writings from Guyana. The Harper-Wood Studentship (St John's College, Cambridge) supported her travel for research during 2015-16. Capildeo was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Measures of Expatriation in 2016. Suzannah V. Evans was born in London and studied at the universities of St Andrews and York. She has worked in publishing and recently as a sound technician, translator, and interpreter for StAnza poetry festival in St Andrews. Her poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Eborakon, The North, New Welsh Review, Tears in the Fence, and RAUM. Photo Credit: Suzannah V. Evans

Diane Moomey, Len Anderson and David Eisbach are on KKUP to discuss the upcoming Poetry Festival in San Jose on Sunday, September 18 from 9am - 6pm at the San Jose History Park. More information available at www.pcsj.org/festival

On Friday night me, Rua MacMillan and Mark Maguire were very lucky to be invited down the Lapraik Poetry Festival in Muirkirk. We had a great night of poetry, song and music in the village. This is a strathspey and two jigs we performed on the night. Read about our visit here https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/handsupfortrad/lapraik-festival-muirkirk/

Ghettosongbird has played legendary NYC stages such as CBGB’s, The Bitter End, Snitch, Wicked Willy’s, 106&Park, Apollo Theater, Cafe Wha, The Village Underground, M1-5, Ashford & Simpson Suga Bar, ect., The World Famous Whisky A Go-Go & The Gaslite (with Rosa Lee Brooks who wrote & recorded with Jimi Hendrix) in L.A., The Tropicana Hotel & Boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, Maxine’s in Trenton NJ, The Clubhouse in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Asylum in Washington D.C., Philly hot spots like The World Cafe Live, The Trocadero, Pennsylvania Convention Center, The Liacoria Center, The Philadelphia Independent Music Conference, Temple University, La Salle University, Penns Landing, Pantene Total You Tour, Silk City opening up for RES, Johnny Brendas opening up for Free Form Funky Freqs with Legendary musicians Vernon Reid (from 80′s rock band Living Colour), G. Calvin Weston, & Jamaladeen Tucuma, opened up for Sonja Sanchez at Poetry Festival, Philadelphia music & film festival at Legendary Blue Horizon, The Tin Angel, The Fire, & she even played bass with local classic rock band Wiqid Blicse etc.   Ghetto Songbird writes and produces music sparked by the love, struggle and uprisal of her environment. Her 1st CD “Alley Of The Earth” was recorded in L.A. with the help of her mentor Rosa Lee Brooks & is like an underground cult favorite with airplay in her hometown Philadelphia, New York and overseas in the UK. She has transformed her Rock-n-roll dream into the reality, as her fans await her long awaited 2nd album “Hoodstock Wingdom”.

Our programme manager, Jennifer Williams – aka poet JL Williams (www.jlwilliamspoetry.co.uk) – had a fabulous adventure recently when she was invited to read at the 5th International Eskişehir Poetry Festival ((http://www.tepebasi.bel.tr/siir/)) in Turkey. In this podcast she shares an interview with the poet Nurduran Duman, as well as a soundscape of readings, interviews and music recorded along the way. We hope it will give you a taste of not only the extraordinary festival organised by Haydar Ergülen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydar_Erg%C3%BClen) which featured international guests and Turkish poets, but also some of the delights of the very vibrant contemporary poetry scene in Turkey.

A special interview with Stan Galloway and Jenna Butler taped live at the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival at Bridgewater College in Virginia on January 17. This episode of 15 Minutes of Poetry was the opening event of the conference. Stan Galloway is Professor of English at Bridgewater College. He organized the conference and his first full-length poetry collection, Just Married, will release in March 2013. Jenna Butler is an Alberta, Canada, based poet, editor, teacher, and publisher. She teaches creative writing and literature at Grant MacEwan University and her collections Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion have been critically well received. 

Flarf Poetry Festival