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TV Segment on Grace Cavalieri Takes Home Two Silver Tellys Hartford Cable Network strikes Telly silver with their featured segment on Maryland's favorite poet laureate. Grace Cavalieri's segment on Harford County TV is officially a smash hit, taking home two silver tellys at the annual Telly Awards- the competition's top prize. The short was awarded highest honors in two categories: Videography/Cinematography and Television:Documentary. Grace and her poetry appear alongside other award winners and nominees from TV networks like Aljazeera, ESPN, and PBS. This sort of media recognition is … [Read more...]

Keeping up with Reuben Jackson: Bon Appetit, COMP, Friday Night Jazz and more! Three New Poems by Reuben Jackson Appear in COMP Journal Friday Night Jazz Archived by the AAPB Reuben Jackson's long-running and wildly popular Friday Night Jazz! has been collected and archived by the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (a collaboration between the Library of Congress and WGBH Educational Foundation). You can listen here to all 17 3-hour long shows which first appeared on Vermont Public Radio. The remaining 128 shows can be found at the archives. From AAPB: … [Read more...]

"Persuasive" Woman Drinking Absinthe explores "Illicit Love" in New Review from Compulsive Reader Charles Rammelkamp delivers a witty and erudite review of Katherine E. Young's opus. In his new review of Katherine E. Young's Woman Drinking Absinthe, Charles Rammelkamp delivers a write-up worthy of its subject. With careful erudition, and no lack of wit, he mines Katherine's beautiful and heartbreaking poesy about "illicit love" for words of affirmation. "Love, indeed, is the overarching theme of this remarkable collection," writes Charles. And he shows how this recurring theme speaks … [Read more...]

7 Upbeat Poems to Celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day (with printable PDFs) Check out these seven upbeat and whimsical poems from ASP authors; print one out for Poem in Your Pocket Day! What is Poem in Your Pocket Day? Poem in Your Pocket Day was created by the Office of the Mayor of New York City in 2002 in partnership with the New York Department of Cultural Affairs and Education. Its goal is to reintroduce poetry, a traditionally performative art, into social situations and normal everyday life. As such, PIYPD marks the end of National Poetry Month, bringing the lessons of the month … [Read more...]

"Our Favorite Things": Katherine E. Young and Natalya Sukhonos Discuss New Poetry Collections Russophone-connected writers Young and Sukhonos present alternating interviews in this fascinating piece from literary blog, Punctured Lines. Watch or read this alternating interview between poet and translator Katherine E. Young and Natalya Sukhonos both of which release new collections of original poetry this year. The interview is published by literary blog Punctured Lines. Young's Woman Drinking Absinthe was launched last Saturday and has since been garnering rave reviews across the web. WDA … [Read more...]