Jones and Coggin were among 22 state, county and city poet laureates across the country who received the funding, which will “support them in creating new work, as well as … enable them to undertake meaningful, impactful, and innovative projects that enrich the lives of their neighbors, including youth, through responsive and interactive poetry activities.”
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Fort Smith has a new literary press, Belle Point
Fort Smith residents Michael and Casie Dodd are behind a new regional press in Arkansas, Belle Point. “Raised in Eastern Oklahoma with roots older than living memory in the Natural State,” the press website reads, its mission is “to celebrate the literary culture and community of the American Mid-South: all its paradoxes and contradictions, all the ways it gets us home.”
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A Q&A with state Poet Laureate Suzanne Underwood Rhodes
We talk with Suzanne Underwood Rhodes, the state’s new Poet Laureate.
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Governor names new state poet laureate
Suzanne Underwood Rhodes has been named the new Poet Laureate of the State of Arkansas in a series of appointments yesterday from Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
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Kai Coggin’s “Incandescent” burns brightly
In “Incandescent,” the voices behind the poems are passionate. They don’t over-rationalize humanity or pan its essence through long-winded metaphors. Sometimes they’re overcome with uncontrollable emotion. Sometimes they can’t say anything at all. Sometimes they find fire and life in the unexpected, in a slosh of memory, in the cycles of the natural world.
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“Words and Curds” tonight at Kent Walker Artisan Cheese
Kent Walker continues its “Words and Curds” series tonight, featuring Kara Bibb, Zachary Crow, Claudia Cerna. Rigsby St. Claire and an open mic session.
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Amoja ‘MoMan’ Sumler wins Rocktown Slam, will perform in Phoenix
Four poets competed in the Rocktown Slam Wednesday night at the Arkansas Arts Center for a chance to represent Arkansas at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Phoenix in October.