We at poetrynight are pleased to announce the establishment of the Ken Warfel Fellowship in honor of Ken Warfel. Ken was a poet of great merit, a teacher, mentor and friend. Ken leaves a lasting legacy across the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
The Fellowship will distinguish and reward poets who, like Ken, have made substantial and continuing [...]
[ January 23, 2012; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
We are The Photo Booth and we’re taking the nation this winter in a light blue Toyota Camry named Skeeter Valentine. We are:
Chris Rockwell has been performing music and poetry across the country for the past ten years. He is a two time nationally competing slam poet, and in 2006 he won the title of [...]
Poetrynight always prepares for the inevitable. Global warming, nuclear war, the impending Mayan apocalypse; we’ve taken it all into consideration. Which is why we present to you the poetrynight archives. A small collection of work we have selected to preserve in the event of a global pandemic, robot uprising, geomagnetic reversal or some other doomsday [...]
Daemond Arrindell, Slam Master of the Seattle Slam and darling of Poetrynight just sent us a reminder!
The Seattle Poetry Slam will hold its annual Grand Slam competition at Town Hall on Friday, May 6th at 7:30 pm. This is an all ages event. The Grand Slam is the final throwdown of the top eight poets in Seattle [...]
The Ken Warfel Fellowship is hereby established to distinguish and reward those poets who, like Ken, have made substantial contributions to their poetry communities and is intended to support their continuing efforts. The fellowship seeks to ensure the long term sustainability of a culture of poetry by investing in p0ets themselves. Fellowships are sponsored by [...]
What it feels like.
A dark cloud hangs over poetrynight this week as listeners of the podcast may notice a certain and distinct absence: Boris!
Boris’ reading was, in the words of many who saw the thing, a brilliant work of absurdism. Which makes it all the more painful to tell you the entire thing was lost [...]
The Eponymous Sue
A quick visit to the Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest blog will reveal the following post:
The 2011 Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest is now officially open for submissions!
Please read the guidelines, see the sample submission sheet and review the submission checklist — all available in printable form on the 2011 contest page — [...]
The Eponymous Sue
March grows ever closer, darlings, and with it the Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest!
Founded in 2006, the Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest is a free annual event held each spring and open to Whatcom County, Washington, residents of all ages and all levels of experience. From each year’s submissions, two judges, respected Washington poets, [...]
Out of New York City, Rattapallax is a literary organization dedicated to issues of globalization, literature, poetry and films. A publisher and film company, they are the eponymous producers of an online magazine, Rattapallax, which you should have a look at. Especially this part, VERSE: a murder mystery, a film in seven chapters and starring [...]
You didn’t think the Snowpocalypse was going to stop us, did you?
Well, it nearly did.
Poetrynight cut it real close here, re-routing through Phoenix to avoid the impending Snowmageddon. Snowblivion. Snowzilla.
Our representatives (Anna Wolff, Melissa Queen, Jessica Lohafer and Kashia Gale) are safely ensconced in our nations capital, and ready to represent poetrynight at the [...]
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