Poetry Corner

A number of poets responded to our invitation to contribute more concrete poems for our collection, but we must issue this reminder: Our poem submission form will not transmit the…

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IBPC judge Pascale Petit has issued her choices of the winning poems in this month?s competition — and while none of them came from our About Poetry Forum, they are…

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Can?t get that line out of your head, but can?t remember the whole poem? Seeking words for your grandfather?s memorial service or your sister?s wedding? We get lots of queries…

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A recent article in The Boston Globe got us started thinking again about poets and their ways of making a living. With a very few exceptions, poets have to do…

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Concrete poetry, ?shaped? poems, visual poetry (or, as we like to call it, ?VisPo?… they are all forms of poetry in which the visual element is part of the poem?s…

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Recent history, but history nonetheless: These two women both carried important threads in the fabric of African American culture & passed the shuttle into the hands of the next generation…

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We have only two poems entered in this month?s InterBoard Poetry Competition, but they are excellent representatives of the good work being posted on our Forum — one by a…

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We?re busily updating and expanding our regional library of poetry calendars & organizations — the U.S. Pacific Coast is the newest update. But we still need your help! Poets, please…

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Langston Hughes was the unofficial poet laureate of Black American life & culture, a radical democrat at the center of the Harlem Renaissance, jazz/blues lyrical poet, humorous storyteller, political playwright,…

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Last September we posted Clemente Padin?s invitation to visual poets to contribute ?notes, commentary, bibliography, photos, poems? for the colloquium on the 50th anniversary of concrete poetry at the University…

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