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In anticipation of Holocaust Memorial Day in January 2025, Holocaust Centre North has unveiled its first poetry collection, Poetry After Auschwitz: Walking in West Cornwall with the Ghost of Great-Aunt …

Award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, visual artist, and pianist Will Alexander will deliver the 2024 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at Bard College. The lecture, titled “Hyper-Spacial Rotation: Poetic …

Governor Glenn Youngkin has announced Mattie Quesenberry Smith as Virginia’s new Poet Laureate. Smith, a professor at the Virginia Military Institute, is an award-winning poet. She recently completed her PhD …

The Think Forum series will feature renowned poet Billy Collins on Tuesday, December 3, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Maltz Performing Arts Center. Collins, one of America’s most …

The Department of English at AAAM Degree College, Bemina, hosted two extension lectures on “Creative Writing” on November 25, 2024. The event aimed to enhance the creative writing skills of …

The Literary Forum Bandipora has announced plans to celebrate “Yom-e-Nazki” on January 5, 2025, to honor the legacy of the late Professor Rashid Nazki, a renowned literary figure and founder …

Italian poet, essayist, short-story writer, and translator Antonella Anedda has won the prestigious Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. The prize is awarded annually to a full-length book of poems by …

Award-winning poet and essayist Morgan Parker is bringing her thought-provoking work to Ann Arbor. On December 5, she will read from her latest collection You Get What You Pay For …

A panel discussion titled “Emirati Writers” was held at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in Al Ain as part of the Cultural Programme of the Al Ain Book Festival …

The Pompey Poetry Party is hosting a special Christmas-themed open mic night at The Hideaway Southsea on Thursday, December 5th, from 7:30 to 10:00 PM. The event, led by Poppy …