Loveland Poet Laureate Blog
How to Read Your Work Aloud to an Audience
Wherever you fall on that continuum, how can you make your next reading a great success?
Loveland Poet Laureate - November Blog
Birthdays worth celebrating include: November 8th- Bram Stoker, author of Dracula; 9th - Carl Sagan, author & astronomer; 11th- Kurt Vonnegut, novelist; 18th- Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale; and 30th – Sameul Clemens (aka Mark Twain).
I recently came across a poem by one of my favorite authors – Stanley Kunitz. Born in 1906, he was still writing at age 100. He served as New York’s first State Poet Laureate and was named the 10th U.S. Poet Laureate at age 95. He won the National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize and many other awards for his expressive poems and social commitment. Here is his celebration poem, summing up a joyful, productive life. He was 89 when it was published in his book, Passing Through: The Later Poems. Just goes to show—that it’s never too late to produce your best work!
-Lorrie Wolfe
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), an American lyric poet
Yes, Like the Seasons, Things Change
We are starting a blog of all things poetry. Today I want to discuss what is changing in the Loveland City Budget, but first recap what these last two and a half years have brought to us while I have been Poet Laureate.
The Loveland Poet Laureate is endorsed by the City Council and appointed for a two-to-three-year term. This is an unpaid position, not a City employee. The City has provided a tremendous amount of support by allowing the LPL to use the Museum and Library for free several times a year and provided the Devereaux Room and the Rialto for minimal costs once or twice a year. City staff has been a great resource.
Encountering a Poet Series
During the workshop, Lisa shared her passion for Jane Kenyon's work. As she explained, “I want to share my love of Jane Kenyon because her writing has always spoken so clearly to me. She is a poet of the "luminous ordinary," and her poems allow readers to remember small daily events, quiet moments of witness, and be grateful for them. She wrote poems that are spare, fierce, and filled with quiet emotion even though she suffered, like many people, with depression.”
As a reminder, Carolyn Forché will hosted by the Loveland Poet Laureate Program in Loveland on Friday, April 12th, and Saturday, April 13th. Tickets are available through the Rialto Theatre. The weekend will include a reception, a reading by Carolyn Forché, and a conversation between Forché and Loveland's Evan Oakley, Aims Community College professor, who worked with Forché on her ground-breaking anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness.
An Interview with Carolyn Forché
As a reminder, Carolyn Forché will hosted by the Loveland Poet Laureate Program in Loveland on Friday, April 12th, and Saturday, April 13th. Tickets are available through the Rialto Theatre. The weekend will include a reception, a reading by Carolyn Forché, and a conversation between Forché and Loveland's Evan Oakley, Aims Community College professor, who worked with Forché on her ground-breaking anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness.
What You Have Heard Is True
As a reminder, Carolyn Forché will hosted by the Loveland Poet Laureate Program in Loveland on Friday, April 12th, and Saturday, April 13th. Tickets are available through the Rialto Theatre. The weekend will include a reception, a reading by Carolyn Forché, and a conversation between Forché and Loveland's Evan Oakley, Aims Community College professor, who worked with Forché on her ground-breaking anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness.
In The Lateness of the World
As a reminder, Carolyn Forché will hosted by the Loveland Poet Laureate Program in Loveland on Friday, April 12th, and Saturday, April 13th. Tickets are available through the Rialto Theatre. The weekend will include a reception, a reading by Carolyn Forché, and a conversation between Forché and Loveland’s Evan Oakley, Aims Community College professor, who worked with Forché on her ground-breaking anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness.
In The Hour Of War
In preparation for the Carolyn Forché Symposium, local poet Kathleen Willard hosted the In the Hour of War: Poetry from the Ukraine workshop on March 16th. The workshop was held at the Loveland Library and filled the entire room with interested poets. Willard was very knowledgeable and engaging with the audience.
Willard shared beautiful images from the book Ukraine at War, in which photographer Daoud Sarhandi-Williams traveled to Ukraine and photographed street art and much more. The book contains over 400 photos and artworks by the author and other contributors. She also shared poetry from In Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine, edited by Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky. Some of our favorites were "Trees Are Budding With War," "Take Only What Is Most Important," and "War." If you would like to get a copy of this, you can find it at https://www.arrowsmithpress.com/preorder/in-the-hour-of-war
As a reminder, Carolyn Forché will hosted by the Loveland Poet Laureate Program in Loveland on Friday, April 12th, and Saturday, April 13th. The weekend will include a reception, a reading by Carolyn Forché, and a conversation between Forché and Loveland’s Evan Oakley, Aims Community College professor, who worked with Forché on her ground-breaking anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness.