Poet to Watch: Joshua Bennett
Joshua Bennett hails from Yonkers, NY. He is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University, and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Center…
Poet To Watch: Fatimah Asghar
Poet to Watch: Fatimah Asghar is a poet of many places, voices, and intimacies that she effortlessly makes into a place her readers and listeners can call home. She is a…
Poet to Watch: Ladan Osman
Poet to Watch: Ladan Osman is the voice we’ve been waiting for. She was born in Somalia and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She earned a BA from Otterbein University and an…
Poet to Watch: Richie Hofmann
On today’s Poet to Watch, Richie Hofmann is up to show us how the lyrical mode in poetry is done. Many critics have called his work “elegant“, which is pretty…
Poet To Watch: Alysia Harris
Poet to Watch: Alysia Harris… …is not new to the game. A member of the spoken word collective The Strivers Row Poets, Harris performs poetry with her fellow members Joshua Bennett…
Living For The Money Can Create Dark Times
Learning from dark times means, for me, looking at a point in my life where I wanted something very important to me in a way that was unhealthy for me….
So You Want To Be A Writer?
I’m not a master poet. Not even close. But in my limited experience I’ve discovered a few tips that I am confident will follow me throughout my tenure as a…
Announcing Poet Kevin Coval as a Glappitnova Storyteller
Glappitnova is excited to announce poet, educator, and organizer Kevin Coval as a 2014 Glappitnova Storyteller Kevin Coval is the poet the Chicago Tribune called “the voice of the new…
Becoming The Best Artist From Kevin Coval
“Don’t be whack. There is a lot of bad art in the world so don’t contribute to that heap of garbage.” Here are some tips for becoming the best artist…