National Poetry Month 2010 Poster, art by Marian BantjesNational Poetry Month started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets and is held every April. Poets, publishers, booksellers, lit organizations, colleges, libraries and schools celebrate poetry through readings, workshops, performances, festivals, writing and sharing poetry and it's role in our culture. This year Virgogray celebrates with … Continue reading National Poetry Month
Austin International Poetry Festival
Marc Olmsted @ Huston-Tillotson University
We are happy to announce that Marc Olmsted will be hosting a poetry workshop entitled "Word Flashes & Eye Snapshots: Sketching Your Life Awake" as part of The Austin International Poetry Festival. "Sketching" was Jack Kerouac's term for recording images seen and the associations and memories they invoke with a snapshot-like technique of minute particulars … Continue reading Marc Olmsted @ Huston-Tillotson University
National Poetry Month just Around the Corner
April is National Poetry Month. The one month out of the year that we actually get to acknowledge and appreciate poetry as a whole should we be so fortunate to. In all reality, there isn't too much coverage of poetry in the mass media about NPM, but perhaps on your local National Public Radio station, … Continue reading National Poetry Month just Around the Corner
Virgogray Press 