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The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation. The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools.
The Oregon Poetry Association (OPA) is a non-profit state-level poetry association in the U.S. state of Oregon, which is affiliated with the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS). The organization promotes poetry, conducts monthly and annual contests, publishes poetry books and organizes periodic meetings, workshops and festivals.
His poetry, taken together, is an expansion of our new poetry for the straightforward but nonetheless interesting reason that he seems to have found a distinctive way of articulating his personal, if sometimes imagined, history while, at the same time, effusing their universal contexts quite decisively and seamlessly."
A recent high school graduate, she attends Harvard University. [22] She has been engaged in poetry since grammar school. She writes about racial identity. The poet also won the Indiana Repertory Theater's Young Playwrights in Progress competition in 2020. [33] Salome Agbaroji of Los Angeles became the seventh National Youth Poet Laureate in 2023.
Donald Justice Poetry Prize – sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards at the West Chester University Poetry Center Dwarf Stars Award – annual award presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction poem of ten lines or fewer published in the previous year.
Juan Felipe Herrera (born on December 27, 1948) is an American poet, performer, writer, toonist, teacher, and activist. Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. [ 1 ] He is a major figure in the literary field of Chicano poetry .
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Each year, the Younger Poets Competition accepts submissions from American poets who have not previously published a book of poetry. Once the judge has chosen a winner, the Press publishes a book-length manuscript of the winner's poetry as the next volume in the series. All poems must be original, and only one manuscript may be entered at a time.