By Scott LorenzWestwind CommunicationsAre you a poet and nobody knows it? Get busy and enter poetry competitions and tell the world about your poetry!One of the best ways to gain exposure for your poetry is to enter your work into various poetry competitions around the United States. The recognition gained
By Scott LorenzWestwind Communications1. Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, Salt Lake City, UT. Honoring the memory of a celebrated poet and a beloved teacher, the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry is awarded annually and is sponsored by The University of Utah Press and The University of Utah Department
This week, we revisit Lauren’s conversation with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of ‘Little Pharma’ (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor’s tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.
Sarah Rose Nordgren’s chapbook, The Creation Museum, is forthcoming from Harbor Editions in 2022. Her previous books include Best Bones (2014), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Darwin’s Mother (2017), both from University of Pittsburgh Press. Nordgren’s poems, essays, and multimedia work appear widely in periodicals such as Agni, Ploughshares, The Kenyon