Back in September, we posted on a Curtis Lovell Meets Walt Whitman: Listening Party, as part of the Calamus Project. Now that the musical side of the project has wrapped up, it’s time for the poetic ...
“They call me capitalism and I slit throats with dollar signs. I’ll tie the American Dream around your neck and laugh while you lynch yourself for a dime.” This is the message of award-winning spoken ...
At its worst, the term “performance poetry” reeks of bad coffee and equally gritty verse. Too many performance poets write sentimentally overcharged abstractions about jazz, anarchy and the agonies of ...
Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their 4-year battle with terminal ovarian cancer, died Monday at age 49. Gibson’s ...
In Denver, our poets are activists, bound to speaking truths, uplifting communities and, along the way, putting this town on the cultural map. Bobby LeFebre — a well-decorated performance poet with ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. CAPA presents The Mayhem Poets at the Lincoln Theatre (769 E. Long St.) on ...
Craig Billingham has previously received funding from The Literature Board of the Australia Council for The Arts. Defne Huzmeli, a past student at UNSW, works for WORD Travels and also hosts the West ...
A poet laureate is an ambassador for poetry, and for that reason Michael Castro was a fitting choice for St. Louis’ first poet laureate. Castro is a Sephardic Jew who wrote an important book about ...