Poetry Challenge Day 2: Learning a Poem's Rhythm

Welcome to the Poetry Challenge A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! The Poetry Challenge See Full Poem & Readings Play Game If you’re joining us in memorizing Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Recuerdo” …

Everything Evanston: Partners of the Evanston Public Library hosts open mic poetry reading for National Poetry Month

In this episode, The Daily covers open mic poetry reading at the Evanston Public Library to celebrate National Poetry Month. CYDNEY BROWN: Do you ever wonder if it’s gunshots or it’s thunder? If someone’s going six feet under, or you just missed the …

Poetry Net Collection

The new Poetry Net collection draws inspiration from interior decoration projects in diverse and multifaceted contexts. It marks the evolution of the broader Poetry House concept, developed by ABK in collaboration with Paola Navone OTTO Studio. Poetry Net …

Pure poetry from ART’s ‘The Black Clown’

CAMBRIDGE — Though Langston Hughes’s poem “The Black Clown” was written in 1931, its words still sound with acute prescience in the America of 2018. Subtitled a “dramatic monologue,” its spare, short stanzas appear in parallel columns with a list of …

In exile, and in poetry, Daud Haider carried his homeland in his heart

Does my country remember me? — Let it not./ Stay blessed, my motherland./ My heart asunder with grief,/ I roam, rootless, on alien shores/ Silence overwhelms my ways/ Darkness blinds the earth and the heavens,/ Stars adrift in …

Celebrating National Poetry Month | Addressing Alaskans

To celebrate April being National Poetry Month, this episode of Addressing Alaskans includes selections Alaska Quarterly Review's "Pièces de Résistance" web series. The series features renowned writers discussing and reading their work in an …

National Poetry Month: Linda Hasselstrom & Sion Lidster

On today's show... According to the 2024 crime report, violent crimes are at a five-year low in Rapid City, but traffic citations are up more than 100%. Police Chief Don Hedrick unpacks the report. He also discusses growing a more ethical department …

The Poetry Fox writes Due South a poem

By day, Chris Vitiello works as a communications strategist for NC State University’s Libraries. But he moonlights as a purveyor of poetry, typing custom poems at special events and commemorating strangers’ life milestones. Vitiello is the author of …

Interclass Day 2 - Poetry - 2020

In Focus: Poetry and preserving Black Appalachian history