MassPoetry is sponsoring school programs to promote poetry, especially spoken word poetry. This interview with Dr. Susan Weinstein is the first of a series of stories on the benefits of spoken word poetry in the classroom. Dr. Weinstein is an associate professor of English and Director of the Secondary English Concentration at Louisiana State [...]
Archive | News RSS feed for this section
Details on the Student Day of Poetry — 2012
Friday, March 30th, the young people of Massachusetts will take over the MIT campus for a full day of workshops and performances sure to illuminate and inspire!  SIGN UP NOW to to make sure that your school gets the chance to participate in this absolutely free event.  This year’s Student Day will include: An incredible [...]
MassPoetry Blog — November 2011
Each month, in addition to topics each blogger wants to discuss, we are selecting one essay or remark for bloggers to respond to if they wish. This month some bloggers are reacting to Joan Houlihan’s The Tell-Tale Lines, which you may want to read, too. We’ve marked these blogs with a blue arrow. Blogs that are date [...]
Michelle Obama unveils student poet program
Here’s a sign that poetry is back in national awareness in a way it hasn’t been in perhaps decades. The National Student Poets program has been created by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a partnership with the nonprofit group, the Alliance for Young Artists & [...]
Food for Festival Thought: Stephen Dunn and Frank Bidart (Sunday Poets) on PingPong and Hollywood
