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Poems spanning 1,400 years tell the tale of a revered porpoise
In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...
Bilingual poetry book gives Welsh 'equal weight'
A new bilingual collection of poems celebrating Wales' rivers gives Welsh and English "equal weight" to encourage poets to write in their first language. Fifty poets from Wales each write about ...
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Anthology Poetry Competition 2025
The Anthology Poetry Competition is open to original and previously unpublished poems in the English language.
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Healy Poetry Prize
The top three poems will receive cash prizes of $200, $100, and $50, to be announced at the Bethel’s Department of English and Journalism Celebration and Awards Ceremony in May. This prize is open to ...
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I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them
Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of bubonic plague focused directly on the effects of the disease, for instance, and exceptions often had a purpose external to ...
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English professor’s poetry book is finalist for Julie Suk Award
ALTOONA, Pa. — A book by Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has been named to the Julie Suk Award ...
Georgia Straight11d
The Poetry in Voice finals challenge kids to find their flow
In addition to being a poet and educator, Tapp is also one of the organizers of Poetry in Voice, a youth-centred Canadian ...
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Ada Limón reflects on her tenure as the poet laureate and bringing us back to wonder
When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect — or to reconnect — people to the world around them and ...