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Continuing their strong run in recent years, a number of Valley writers have won awards or honors in the 2022 Massachusetts Book Awards, the 22nd year of the competition.Northampton author and Smith College writing professor Ruth Ozeki has won first. ....
Continuing their strong run in recent years, a number of Valley writers have won awards or honors in the 2022 Massachusetts Book Awards, the 22nd year of the competition.Northampton author and Smith College writing professor Ruth Ozeki has won first. ....
FLORENCE As Rachel Cyrene Blackman sees it, poetry is an art form, but it’s also one that extends beyond academia and the pens (or keyboards) of the most talented wordsmiths. Ideally, she says, it’s something that should be accessible to anyone, and. ....
Rio Santos named Northampton's first youth poet laureate gazettenet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettenet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘They make poetry real’: Northampton launches 1st-ever youth poet laureate program, seeks student from city entering 7th to 12th grade Updated 1:43 PM; In 2017, Amanda Gorman, then 19 years old, became the country’s first national youth poet laureate. Four years later, at Democratic President Joe Biden’s inauguration, she gave a rousing oration of her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” speaking eloquently on the complexities of democracy in the United States, stealing the spotlight during the hours-long ceremony and becoming a national sensation in the wake of her reading. The recent Harvard University graduate went on to perform at the Super Bowl last month, reciting a poem honoring front line workers. She’s the youngest inaugural poet to date, and in the wake of her reading at Biden’s inauguration in January, sales of her book, also titled, “The Hill We Climb,” skyrocketed. ....