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April is National Poetry Month, and 2021 marks the 25th annual celebration of poets and poetry.
Visit the poets.org site for ways to find and connect with poets and poems. You can sign up to get a poem-a-day in your inbox! There are poems for kids and teens; ways for kids to interact directly with award-winning poets as part of Dear Poet; many poets reading their own work. So much poetry!
More poetry-related headlines to hit you with!
At age 80,
Sylvia Byrne Pollack of Seattle published her first book of poetry! “Risking It,” was released by Red Mountain Press on March 26, 2021. A great article in
Film:
Nomadland (2020) Chloé Zhao
A movie about American poverty? Yes, but also a film about the complex and varied ideas of freedom that come with living in this humongous, politically and economically disparate country. What is monetary, individual and emotional liberation in an American west pocked with Amazon packaging plants? Giant corporations engender a giant gig economy, not stability or growth. Frances McDormand brilliantly plays the resilient protagonist, Fern.
Luis Camnitzer,
Book:
One Number Is Worth One Word (2020) Luis Camnitzer
Few write with such succinct eloquence and intent on the potentials of learning and artistic knowledge, or the failures of university art programmes. Here, the artist and teacher addresses, among other topics, the pitfalls of disciplinary study as related to the reorientation of power, in writings penned between 1960 and 2017. ‘If, instead of being concerned primarily with certain particular skills, we would apply ourselves to the g