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News Articles: poetry

Nyla Dinkins will represent Washington, D.C. at the 20th annual Poetry Out Loud competition this week. 55 high school students, one from every state and five territories, will compete in the recitation competition.

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  • Arts & Life

Four teens on why they like poetry

For 20 years, teens from around the country have come to Washington, D.C. to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud finals.

May 02, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair

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  • Book Reviews

These 2 funny books give readers a reason to smile in tough times

Dorothy Parker's posthumously published collection is Poems; Camilla Barnes' debut novel is The Usual Desire to Kill. Both affirm: sharp humor can be grounded in pain.

April 21, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Poet, painter and musician Tony Whedon at his home in Darien, Ga.

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For poet Tony Whedon, writing means 'finding different layers of yourself'

Poet Tony Whedon "can't wait to get to that computer every morning to see what's going to happen."

February 14, 2025
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  • Peter Biello

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  • Book Reviews

Two books delivered beauty, inspiration and humor — just when I needed them most

Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water, by Billy Collins, and The Dog Who Followed the Moon, by James Norbury.

November 14, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Erin Carlyle is the author of the new poetry collection 'Girl at the End of the World'.

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Atlanta poet Erin Carlyle's collection reckons with grief and her father's opioid addiction

In her new collection of poetry, Erin Carlyle describes in vivid scenes how her father’s opioid addiction colors her memories of him.

October 22, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
From left: Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn, prize winner Grayson Jones, Gov. Brian Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp.

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Georgia high school students honored in annual Poet Laureate’s Prize

Twelfth grade student Grayson Jones has been named the winner of the 11th annual Poet Laureate’s Prize. The prize is awarded for an original poem written by a Georgia high school student.

May 21, 2024
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  • Rough Draft Atlanta
Writers Jonathan Eig (top left), Brandon Som (top right) and Ilyon Woo (lower right) and composer Tyshawn Sorey (lower left) received 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for their work. All four have connections to Georgia.

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Here are this year's Pulitzer Prize winners with Georgia ties

This year’s Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and the winners in the Biography category are both books with Georgia ties. And in the music category, the winning composer has links to Atlanta.

May 07, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
"Young Langston" by Charly Palmer appears as one of many pieces of original art in "The New Brownies Book".

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'New Brownies' Book' carries on mission to show Black children they are loved

The New Brownies' Book is inspired by the original periodical published by W.E.B. Du Bois in the 1920s and and keeps the same mission in mind: to ensure Black children know they are loved.

October 23, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
Louise Glück attends the National Book Awards on Nov. 19, 2014, in New York City.

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  • Obituaries

Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück dies at 80

The winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003-2004 was 80 years old.

October 14, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
Kwame Alexander (left) and Jerry Craft have each won a Newbery Medal for their children's books. Alexander invited Craft on a trip to Kenya this summer to speak to schoolkids about reading. The kids were impressed. So were the authors.

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From snow to Dr. Seuss: What Newbery Medalist authors discussed with Kenyan kids

Kwame Alexander, a poet, and Jerry Craft, an author and illustrator, went to Kenya to encourage reading — and learned a lot in the process.

September 18, 2023
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  • Thomas Bwire and
  • Vicky Hallett
The cover of <em>Daughters of Latin America</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

These poems by Latin American women reflect a multilingual region

Sandra Guzmán once heard an alarming statistic: Every 14 days, an Indigenous language dies around the world. So she created a new multilingual project centered on Latin American women.

August 19, 2023
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By:
  • Alejandra Marquez Janse and
  • Ashley Brown
The Poet Life is guiding teens to use poetry to encourage others to stop smoking

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  • Agents for Change

The Poet Life aims to stop kids from smoking through the art of poetry

The Poet Life aims to stop kids from smoking, vaping and doing hookah, by using the art of slam poetry.

August 03, 2023
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  • Leah Fleming
A woman holds a picture of Victoria Amelina, as pallbearers carry the writer's coffin at the end of her funeral ceremony in Mykhaylo Gold Domes in Kyiv on July 4, 2023.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Remembering Ukrainian poet Victoria Amelina

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Ukrainian writer and poet Victoria Amelina, who was among those killed in a Russian strike at a pizza restaurant last month.

July 08, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado will become the Academy of American Poets' first Latino executive director and president since its founding in 1934.

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  • Arts & Life

The Academy of American Poets names its first Latino head

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado will become the almost-90-year-old academy's executive director and president.

June 21, 2023
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  • Elizabeth Blair
The former Georgia State Prison in Tattnall County.

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  • Arts & Life

Georgia college students inside and outside of prison to edit a new literary journal

Georgia State University students both inside and outside of prison will soon begin working on a new literary journal featuring the work of incarcerated people.

April 11, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
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