Poetry Out Loud is a free program! There is no cost to either the school or the students. HOW DOES POL WORK? Poetry Out Loud is a tiered competition structure that begins in the classroom. High school teachers use the free Poetry Out Loud teacher toolkit (https://www.poet...
I went with Angela Ball's poem for the first prize, but there was a good pool to pick from (I counted eight entries as possibles). For me, it came down to some great lines. Angela wrote (in Buk's voice) "I'm sorry for my wife / I'm sorry for anyone's wife" which seemed ...
About Deanie: Deanie Rowan Blank is the recipient of a W. B. Yeats Pierce Loughran Scholarship. Her poetry has appeared widely in literary journals and was performed by the East Haddam Stage Company. She is a Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Tenth Anniversary Prize finalist. Her poem, “Song for...
Paul Harding, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel,Tinkers, shared six writing tips withPublishers Weeklytoday. One tip (#3) piqued my interest, and though Harding writes for adults, I believe his quote also applies to fiction and poetry for children: “Don’t write your books...
The poem first appeared inWordgathering,2010, and is a Pushcart Prize Nomination. Radio Interview Her missionary voice beams from some NPR studio across inaccessible stars and blue-black space while I drive on in the coming dark, anxious to arrive home before my vision fades, before my leg br...
yourself in it. Then laugh out loud. Everything else now should come easy. —fromRattle #26, Winter 2006 Rattle Poetry Prize Honorable Mention ___ Malcolm Alexander: “I began to read poetry and then later attempted to write it, not only while in prison, but on account of it. Ironicall...
Nearly two years after the announcement that it had won the 2020 Sow’s Ear Poetry Chapbook Prize, my collectionAmo e Canto(Italian forI Love and I Sing) has been released. Because it came out as Issue 30.1 of theSow’s Ear Poetry Review(and was sent to all subscribers of theReview)...
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2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner Book Recommendations,Denise Duhamel,Feature, December 12, 2024 Drive-by Animals [by Nin Andrews] Drive-by animals, we called them when I was a girl—the dogs and cats dumped off on our farm by passing cars. The cats took up residence in the barns. One...
Winner of the The Changes Press Book prize, judged by Louise Glück, OSSIA blends the voices of the dead with the living, resulting in a symphonic exploration into migration, dislocation, familial bonds, love, and loss. Seo textures his manuscript with poems in both Korean and English, ...