Download or read book The Centennial Anthology of The Poetry Society of Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Editor's Desk Building a book like this takes a significant amount of time, effort, and patience, but what a joy it has been. I was privileged to have Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and Sofia Starnes, both former Poets Laureate of Virginia, as teammates through the more difficult phases of the endeavor: collecting, reviewing, selecting, editing, and assembling the manuscript. Also, I relied on the backing and support of PSV President, Terry Cox-Joseph, who wrote the Preface, an important ingredient of the book. The expertise and guidance of our publisher, Jeanne Johansen, of High Tide Publications, would take us successfully across the finish line. The Centennial Anthology contains several sections. Part One consists of the poetry of 110 contemporary poets, while Part Two features poems by 36 poets from six previous PSV anthologies. The four appendices provide (A) information regarding previous PSV Presidents, (B) the contributions of the various Poets Laureate of Virginia, (C) brief biographies of the participating poets, and (D) acknowledgments of prior publication of the poems. The Table of Contents lists the poets alphabetically. I hope that all who pick up this book will drink deeply of the beauty, talent, and creativity that our poets have placed at your disposal. We are proud to have it represent a poetic standard for the next one hundred years of The Poetry Society of Virginia. Edward W. Lull Editor
Download or read book Blended Voices written by Kathleen Decker and published by High Tide Publications. This book was released on 2023-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthology Blended Voices: Blending the Voices of Virginia began as a Poetry Society of Virginia (PSV) workshop I designed during the PSV Centennial year (2023). The Centennial theme was to celebrate the diverse voices of Virginia poets. I conceived of the idea of highlighting historic Virginia poets from diverse backgrounds, with the aim of blending their voices with those of diverse contemporary Virginia poets. The second goal was to educate participants about historic Virginia poets as they prepared to blend their voices with those of the historic poets. We had a small, enthusiastic group of participants for the workshop I ran in Richmond, Virginia, on May 6th, 2023, during the PSV Centennial Festival. The format of the workshop was slightly different from that of this book. In the workshop, participants picked poetry lines at random from four color-coded bins, one for each historic Virginia poet. The lines had been excised from two different poems by each historic Virginia poet: Edgar Allan Poe, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Anne Spencer, and Karenne Wood. Together, these authors represent several of Virginia's demographics: Caucasian male (Poe), Caucasian female (Roberts), African-American female (Spencer), and Native-American (Monacan) female (Wood). The workshop participants then created their own poems, using the four lines they had randomly chosen from the work of these historic poets. I presented a second workshop via Zoom to another set of participants. For the book, I decided to extend the challenge to all Poetry Society of Virginia members. Since the contributors would be working remotely, they were presented the same two poems from each of the four historic poets-a total of eight-and invited to choose one line from one poem by each poet. From these lines, or woven around these lines, they each created a novel poem, thus adding their voices to those of the historic poets. As the reader will find, the result is a joyful selection of widely different poetic contents and styles. Most of the historic poems are reprinted in the beginning of the book, so the reader can understand the original intent and experience the historic poets' voices before they are blended with voices from contemporary Virginia poets. Sofia M. Starnes, Virginia Poet Laureate, Emerita, has been kind enough to add her editing expertise and keen poetic eye to the process of compiling the anthology. We hope you enjoy the resulting collection, and that the blending of voices it represents will foster a further blending of Virginia's diverse peoples and cultures. Kathleen P. Decker - Past Vice President, Eastern Region, Poetry Society of Virginia
Download or read book The Golden Anniversary Anthology of Poems by Member Poets Poetry Society of Virginia Founded May 1923 written by Bess B. Gresham and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume IX Virginia written by William Wright and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focus on newer, diverse poets who continue to broaden and enrich the literary legacy of this beautiful state.
Download or read book Golden Verse from Ohio Valley Poets written by West Virginia Poetry Society. Wheeling Chapter and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intrastate Lines written by Alexandra Zan Delaine Hailey and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a year of frequent intrastate travel, Alexandra "Zan" Delaine Hailey collected images of the Virginia landscape, the arts, the music of rock and rave, fusing them together into a series of tightly crafted poems. In Intrastate Lines, she takes readers on a meandering journey, capturing creatures, colors, tunes, and textures witnessed in nature, on highways, backroads, and celestial pathways, each poem, celebrating a moment-treasured yet ordinary. Together, the poems form a meditation, a celebration of life-her life and ours.
Download or read book Intrastate Lines written by Alexandra Zan Delaine Hailey and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a year of frequent intrastate travel, Alexandra "Zan" Delaine Hailey collected images of the Virginia landscape, the arts, the music of rock and rave, fusing them together into a series of tightly crafted poems. In Intrastate Lines, she takes readers on a meandering journey, capturing creatures, colors, tunes, and textures witnessed in nature, on highways, backroads, and celestial pathways, each poem, celebrating a moment-treasured yet ordinary. Together, the poems form a meditation, a celebration of life-her life and ours.
Download or read book Anthology written by American College Poetry Society and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Poetic Journey written by Barbara Drucker Smith and published by Barbara Drucker Smith. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Poetic Journey, travels through life in these poetic sections: That´s Life, World of Nature, Animal Tales, Personal, Healing (Chicken Soup), Religion (Spirituality), Travel (Orbiting), Ships (Sail the Ocean Blue), Writing (Alphabet Soup), Humor (Well, I Think It´s Funny), Arts (Poetic Creation of Artistic Image), War and Peace, and Death (The Last Roundup). The poems are philosophic reflections of life taken from historic world events, the human experience of day to day situations and happenings, and travel. "...(Smith´s) poems express with imagery and careful attention to details. Her poems convey her sensitivity to people, to our companion creatures and to the earth itself: her joy and her love of life." L. Nelson Farley, poet and author. "...(Smith´s) poems are as varied as "Children´s Palace in Shanghai, China", to a mother´s fears for her growing child, to goldfish at a wedding. They are humorous and serious, but always approach life from its best side." Serena Fusek, poet and author.
Download or read book A Time for Poetry written by North Carolina Poetry Society and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prose from the Old Century to the New written by Barbara Drucker Smith and published by Barbara Drucker Smith. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BARBARA DRUCKER SMITH PROSE FROM THE OLD CENTURY TO THE NEW Vignettes, Petite Petites, Epistles, Points of View Prose From The Old Century To The New will bring laughter, tears, and points of view on past and current issues of personal, local, regional, national and international happenings In this collection of letters, vignettes, and other short pieces, Virginia poet and writer Barbara Drucker Smith has put together an insightful picture of life in her times, which readers will find engaging and rewarding. Nickell John Romjue, author of novel Merry Town, Missouri 1945 1948: Barbara Smith's eclectic collection gives us a look at her multifaceted world. We see travel adventures some unplanned humor and insight from daily living, her views on local controversies and some answers. L. Nelson Farley, poet, and author of A Search for God Paraphrased Some of us walk through life staring up at the sky or down at our feet. Barbara Smith, always alert to her surroundings, illuminates the ending of a century and the beginning of the next. Doris Gwaltney author of Homefront (available soon), Shakespeare's Sister, and Duncan Browdie,Gent. Barbara Drucker Smith is a veteran anthologized poet, fiction and non-fiction writer local, regional and national. She authored Darling Loraine, the Story of A. Louis Drucker, A Grateful Jewish Immigrant, and A Poetic Journey. She is a certified hypnotherapist, professionally certified teacher of English, Journalism, Speech, and Remedial Reading. She is a pianist, choral singer, actress, and world traveller.
Download or read book Golden Year written by Poetry Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Year written by Poetry Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quartet from The Golden Year written by Poetry Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetry Society of America Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I d Rather Be a Hyacinth written by Cathy Hailey and published by Finishing Line Press. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'd Rather Be a Hyacinth features ekphrastic poems inspired by an episodic performance of the Moscow Festival Ballet interwoven with poems of refuge from grief, the comfort and healing found in nature, memory, and family. The poems are an exploration of mimesis in Aristotle's sense, a re-representing of life-a witnessing and re-animation of the lives of all creatures in nature-the biosphere, the artistic life as performed on stage in the ballet, the spiritual life beyond, and a hope that illuminating the interconnectedness of all can bring about a renewed consciousness. I'd Rather Be a Hyacinth is a venture into the haiku sonnet, a hybrid form combining eastern and western poetic styles.
Download or read book CENTENNIAL POEM FOR WASHINGTON written by Margaret Junkin 1820-1897 Preston and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
