Check out an interview with poet John Murillo. John Murillo is a Cave Canem fellow and author of Up Jump the Boogie, his debut collection of poems. Book review on: Up Jump the Boogie coming soon!! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2010/05/21/the-blood-jet-writing-hour-hosted-by-rachelle-cruz ...
Last year the Poetry Foundation introduced its second season of POETRY EVERYWHERE which featured 22 animated films created by student filmmakers at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Film students created animated interpretations of today's contemporary poets including Martin Espada, Cornelius Eady, and Jane Hirshfield....
Small book and cassette tape label, Fast Geek Press would like to announce the release of John Franklin Dandridge’s new collection of poems Further Down Rd, an examination of an artist’s relationships, rivalries and exaggerated perception of the future painted on the geographical canvas of Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood. John Franklin Dandridge inserts his...
the tale the shepherds tell the sheep ...
I began reading The Big Sea by Langston Hughes somewhere around my late high school years, or early college endeavors when I was still an infant of a poet. Langston was one of the first poets I'd read, one of the first books of poetry I'd...
[gallery link="file"] Although hailing from Florida, the art of east-coast born Nicole Calvert is seductively complex and mystically haunting. Whether it is a painting on canvas, woodblock, or shadow boxes, Calvert's work beckons you to its sea of colors, layers, and gems. Though you may try,...