The title of this poem refers to one of the terminals at Fryderyk Chopin Airport in Warsaw, called Etiuda, Étude. I started it while waiting several hours for a delayed flight from Warsaw to New York. I had been working for...
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Burdensome chores, wild hair days, and bizarre animals — all have served as inspiration for modern children’s poets. Husband and wife team, Tom and Tess Hannah, have combined their talents to pen a collection of their own...
The new website PoetrySpeaks is aiming to serve as a social networking hub and online marketplace for poets. And it's immediately clear that PoetrySpeaks casts a wide net: among the home page's collage of clickable poet heads,...
Negative Space is a bare-bones open mic and writers' workshop held every Sunday at 7 p.m. on the Avenue for the Arts, 106 S. Division #311 (across from Scavenger Hunt). Bring poetry, prose, spoken word, or acoustic music....
Right off the bat, Lesley Wheeler plays videos of poetry slams, showing her students how intense and powerful she believes poetry can be. Then she tells them they're going to have a haiku death match.
The literary journal of Washington and Lee University, Shenandoah, is accepting entries for its second annual poetry contest, open to writers living in or born in Virginia. The winner of the Graybeal-Gowan Prize for Virginia...
Overnight, I managed to write three wild and yet clean poems—and by clean I mean sharply polished. The titles are OF A FEVERED CHILD, STRAWBERRIES IN WINTER and NUDE AT THE OPEN WINDOW. The third one’s title is a bit risqué but...
Over the years, I've met many writers in Singapore, but I spend little time with them. In a year, I attend no more than two or three literary events. Still, at these events, there are always a few writers who talk to me as if...
The three books reviewed here are by women writers who confront the world in uncompromised fashion. The first poet here is the late Reetika Vazirani and she is the most difficult to write about, not only because the poems are...
Over the years, I've met many writers in Singapore, but I spend little time with them. In a year, I might attend no more than two or three literary events. Still, at these events, there are always a few writers who talk to me...