Poetry

Billy Mills: Work and workers have been hymned by poets for centuries. Send us your own labours of love  

Are you worried about the election? Do you write haiku? People for the American Way invites politicized poets to enter its online political haiku contest , focusing on John McCain and Sarah Palin.  

Nov. 4 will be here faster than you can say "Great Depression." We want you to have some fun before the Big Day.  

An anthology edited by Andrew Burke and Candice Ward http://www.masthead.net.au/ "What made the Poetryetc listserv distinct from the beginning was John KinsellaA1s internationalism, and his vision of its being ...  

"In Tempo with Tanka" This is a workshop on how to write these Japanese 'short songs' or short poems, conducted by Jenny Barnard -- who writes: "Tanka are beautiful, melodic and contemporary". 11 October 2008, ...  

Fear the lesser son who, desperate to burn bright, incinerates all. - Susan Anthony, San Francisco, Poets Against War  

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Susan Keith is the winner of the third annual Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse sponsored by Tom Howard Books. This year's contest awarded $4,500 in cash prizes for the best original poems in traditional verse forms, including a top prize of $1,000. Keith's poem "Remembrance", a...  

Johnmichael Simon of Israel is the winner of the fourth annual Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse sponsored by Tom Howard Books. $4,800 in cash prizes were awarded for the best original poems in traditional verse forms. Simon's poem "On the Border", a depiction of daily life in...  

Hundreds of haiku poured in last week from politically-inspired poets after we asked readers to pen a haiku inspired by a White House candidate.  

Tanka is a Japanese poetic form that is closely related to haiku. It has been Americanized and given syllable counts that make it even more like haiku, but the syllable counts don't truly translate from the ...  

Toronto artist Amos Latteier has just launched N8R TXT, a public art project where you can send in an SMS with your location, anywhere in Ontario, and receive back a site specific haiku “expressing nature” at that spot based on the local geography, season, weather, time of day, plants, and...  

Madikeri: President of the Madikeri Dasara Bahubhasha Kavigoshti Samiti H.S. Manjunath has invited poems from those willing to participate in the meet scheduled to be held at the Cauvery Kalakshetra here in the ...  

Poets have always been fascinated with dreams. Please share yours  

I wrote this when I first learned of tanka : Tanka, a new word was just introduced to me something like haiku an example was given of unspoken forgetting Here's a thought transcribed while walking to a ride: ...