Poet to Watch: Peter LaBerge
Poet to watch: Peter LaBerge grew up Connecticut. He is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies English and Consumer Psychology as a member of the…
Poet to Watch: Joshua Bennett
Joshua Bennett hails from Yonkers, NY. He is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University, and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Center…
Poet To Watch: Fatimah Asghar
Poet to Watch: Fatimah Asghar is a poet of many places, voices, and intimacies that she effortlessly makes into a place her readers and listeners can call home. She is a…
Poet to Watch: Ladan Osman
Poet to Watch: Ladan Osman is the voice we’ve been waiting for. She was born in Somalia and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She earned a BA from Otterbein University and an…
Poet to Watch: Richie Hofmann
On today’s Poet to Watch, Richie Hofmann is up to show us how the lyrical mode in poetry is done. Many critics have called his work “elegant“, which is pretty…
Poet To Watch: Alysia Harris
Poet to Watch: Alysia Harris… …is not new to the game. A member of the spoken word collective The Strivers Row Poets, Harris performs poetry with her fellow members Joshua Bennett…
Working With Purpose
What does “working with purpose” mean? I suppose the answer to that is another question: what are your responsibilities to what you love? I asked several emerging poets what they…
Living For The Money Can Create Dark Times
Learning from dark times means, for me, looking at a point in my life where I wanted something very important to me in a way that was unhealthy for me….
Developing a Writing Community
When developing a writing community for yourself, it is most important to remember that it takes great relationships with other people to build that network. Here I will explore a…