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Tag Archives: poetry
Nominations For San Mateo County's First Poet Laureate Have Begun!
(Bay City News) Roses are red, violets are blue, San Mateo County is looking for its first poet laureate — and it could be you! Now through July 31, the county is seeking nominations for poet laureate, someone who can … Continue reading
Videos: Mill Valley Library Poetry Slam
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Friday night at the Mill Valley Public Library, the words, they flowed like…uh…er…flowing things… Okay, cancel my spot at the next MVPL Poetry Slam. Report on the event from the Marin Independent Journal today: Fourteen students from Tamalpais and Redwood … Continue reading
Videos: Berkeley High Sophomore Wows in Poetry Slams
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You catch that Sunday Chronicle profile of Noah St. John, the 15-year-old Berkeley High sophomore who has been competing in poetry slams and has read on NPR's Snap Judgment? Raised in the Shakespearean theater, with a novelist and a rhetoric … Continue reading
Updated: Central Valley Poet Gets National Honor
UPDATED: Listen to an extended version of Rachael Myrow's interview with new US poet laureate, Fresno State's Philip Levine. An edited version aired on this morning's The California Report. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Simple Truth: Philip … Continue reading
Marin Poet Kay Ryan Wins Pulitzer; Listen to 2008 Interview
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Poet Kay Ryan was among the Pulitzer Prize winners announced today. Listen to Stephanie Martin's 2008 interview with Ryan, after she was named U.S. Poet Laureate, and you'll hear her reading her poem "Things Shouldn't Be So Hard." Listen to … Continue reading
Video: Poet Billy Collins on Social Media, Twitter, and Poetry
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins was on our KQED Forum last week to discuss his new anthology, Horoscopes of the Dead. Afterwards, KQED News Interactive Producer Amanda Stupi asked him what he thought, as a poet, of social media. … Continue reading
