William Carlos Williams

Virginia Rep has announced the 2024-2025 Season: an exciting line-up of musicals, plays, and special presentations at all three locations, including the Signature Season at the November Theatre downtown, the Barksdale Season at Hanover Tavern, and the Family Season in the Jessie Bogese Theatre at the Virginia Rep Center for Arts and Education. Partner productions in the Theatre Gym and additional community partnerships will be announced at a later time. 

The Tank will present As I Eat the World, written and performed by Luis Roberto Herrera and directed by Scout Davis. Learn how to purchase tickets!

What did our critic think of OUR TOWN at Syracuse Stage? The Syracuse Stage production of Our Town celebrates the 125th anniversary of the birth of Thornton Wilder. One might think a play written in 1938 would be irrelevant for an audience in the 21st century. But it is important to remember that the world at that time faced a severe worldwide economic downturn, the danger of impending war, strong political division, rising nationalism and rapid technological advancement. Given that these problems plague us today, Our Town is especially meaningful in our time.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat has announced four new community programs in May with Hermitage Fellows specializing in music, writing, multimedia, and theater, including an event with Tony Award-nominated playwright Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons, Small Mouth Sounds).

This Saturday, June 26, Rutherford residents will hold a rally at Williams Center Plaza from 12 noon to 3pm, to voice their objections to demolishing the Williams Center, a private, nonprofit performing arts and cinema complex, that sits on a coveted piece of real estate in the center of this northern New Jersey town.

A group of Rutherford residents are making a last-ditch effort to raise awareness of the auction of the Williams Carlos Williams Center for the Performing Arts, including starting an online petition which has garnered over 2,000 signatures. Bergen County, who has owned the building since 1987, has decided to give up on maintaining the costs for this building, which happens to sit on the most coveted piece of real estate in the center of this NJ town.

Urbano Project has announced that Gabriel Sosa and Sam Richardson will be the two Artists in Residence working on the theme of Radical Care in Winter 2021, leading virtual Youth Artist Projects for Boston Public School teens from January through March.

The groundbreaking reading series continues as Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents its next free 'screened' reading: VOTE THE NEW MOON, by Alfred Kreymborg, live-streamed at no charge, with talkback to follow, on October 24th, 2020 at 8 PM, EDT.

Considerado por Octavio Paz “como uno de los poetas más complejos”, el escritor mexicano Jaime Augusto Shelley falleció este día en la Ciudad de México a los 83 años de edad. 

NYCCT recently launched a new online digital program for families called Creative Clubhouse. While most of the programming is available to all free of charge, they are offering essential workers as well as any family that has been deeply affected by this crisis to have free access to all paid content.

Eight new half-hour episodes of Poetry in America will begin airing on public television stations nationwide (check local listings) and on the World Channel starting this April and continuing through the spring and summer. Also in April, which is National Poetry Month, the series will be available to stream on pbs.org and individual episodes will be available on poetryinamerica.org.

Por su sólida trayectoria literaria en las letras nacionales, la traductora, poeta y escritora Pura López Colomé (Ciudad de México, 1952) recibió el Premio Bellas Artes de Literatura Inés Arredondo 2019, cuya ceremonia se llevó a cabo en el Centro Sinaloa de las Artes Centenario, en Culiacán, este jueves 12 de diciembre.

In 2020, Adelaide Writers' Week the second from Director Jo Dyer, contemplates one of the few things that incontrovertibly unites us all: Being Human. Running from Saturday 29 February to Thursday 5 March as part of the 60th anniversary Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Writers' Week will explore how humans engage with each other, with technology, and with the natural world. 

Bookworks, the City of Albuquerque Cultural Services, and WordCraft Circle present Joy Harjo, United States Poet Laureate, on December 7 at the KiMo Theater. The event will be free and open to the public, but requires registration. The reading starts at 8 pm, with a signing to follow.

La voz de la poeta costarricense, nacionalizada guatemalteca y mexicana, Eunice Odio (1919-1974), se escuchó a través de un audio que grabó en 1961 en la Ciudad de México, con la lectura de un fragmento del poema El tránsito de fuego. El material se presentó en el marco del homenaje con el que se recordó a la poeta en el centenario de su nacimiento.

Por su sólida trayectoria literaria, la traductora, poeta y escritora Pura López Colomé es reconocida con el Premio Bellas Artes de Literatura Inés Arredondo 2019, el cual le otorgó la Secretaría de Cultura, conjuntamente con el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Literatura, la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa y el Gobierno del Estado por medio del Instituto Sinaloense de Cultura.

Susan R. Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival (PBPF), today announced that the 16th annual festival is returning to Old School Square for six days of literary workshops and public events, including readings, talks, interviews, panel discussions and more, January 20-25, 2020.

Susan Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, today announced that Joy Harjo will be the Special Guest Poet at the 16th annual festival that will be held January 20-25, 2020 at Old School Square in Delray Beach. An award-winning Native American poet and musician from Oklahoma, Harjo was recently named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poet.

The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Li-Young Lee has selected Leah Naomi Green as the recipient of the 2019 Walt Whitman Award for her manuscript, The More Extravagant Feast, which will be published by Graywolf Press in April 2020.

El próximo jueves 21 de marzo, a las 19:00, se realizará la presentación editorial del poemario Tierras altas de Mato Grosso, obra con la que el escritor michoacano Armando Salgado obtuvo el Premio Internacional de Poesía Jaime Sabines en 2017.