"Canandaigua" takes as its occasion my return, after 50 years, to one of my original landscapes and idioms--the Finger Lakes cities, in western New York State. Retired now from university teaching, I have returned, in more than one sense, to school, hoping to learn the early lessons once again, alone and from the landscape. And the first and best of these lessons is love.
Donald Revell on "Canandaigua" |
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"Dujie Tahat Merges Politics and Poetry as Seattle’s Newest Civic Poet"
"Spoken word is the performance of poetry, with emphasis on the poet’s gestures, voice, and appearance. 'Slam poetry' is what competing in spoken word is called. Spoken word and poetry are great for our attention economy, where we rarely spend a lot of time on something, Tahat acknowledged. Spoken word is a catchy sound bite. Poems can be short. Yet nowadays, Tahat is more interested in poetry on the page, and poetry as communication in civic settings and topics."
viaNORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Katey Funderbergh and Nicholas Ritter on Building Community
"This program proves to me, again and again, that poetry is a liberatory force. Prisons shouldn’t exist, but each time I’m in the classroom with our students, I remember that this craft is an avenue for free expression and self-exploration. The poems allow me to connect with the students, to share my own memories, dreams, struggles, and to relate to them about both the content of the poems we read, and the content of the poems they write." |
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