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MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: April 5, 2021 6 April is National Poetry Month, and 2021 marks the 25th annual celebration of poets and poetry. Visit the poets.org site for ways to find and connect with poets and poems. You can sign up to get a poem-a-day in your inbox! There are poems for kids and teens; ways for kids to interact directly with award-winning poets as part of Dear Poet; many poets reading their own work. So much poetry! More poetry-related headlines to hit you with! At age 80, Sylvia Byrne Pollack of Seattle published her first book of poetry! “Risking It,” was released b...

9 best Houston plays and performances to stream and catch in April Emmy winner and film star Laura Linney will take part in 4th Wall Theatre's virtual White Rabbit Red Rabbit live series on April 24.  Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions A year into remote theater and Houston performing arts companies have learned to get creative. Yes, we’re still streaming some dramatic and comic theater goodness, but April also offers a plethora of different performances modes from live actors on your front lawn to virtual conferencing with a semi-omnipotent nun. Fo...

20 titles to guide you through National Poetry Month April is National Poetry Month. And, as we celebrate an art form which gives shape and language to our experience of the world, it's worth noting that many readers still struggle to find the door, the access point to poetry.  With this in mind, accept these 20 titles — most of them quite recent — as a peace offering and a starting point. Not all will resonate with every reader; but there should be something here for each mood and manner of engaging.  Poems of devotion Jericho Brown, "The New Testament" (2014) Following in the footst...

Comments Take a Journey Through 125 Years of Book Review HistorySkip to Comments The comments section is closed. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to letters@nytimes.com. Take a Journey Through 125 Years of Book Review History March 15, 2021 March 15, 2021 1896 1905 Shortly before the publication of “The House of Mirth,” this portrait of Edith Wharton became the first photograph to appear on the cover of the Book Review. 1905 Shortly before the publication of “The House of Mirth,” this portrait of Edith Wharton became the first photograph to appear o...

The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/t-magazine/rap-hip-hop-poetry.html The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry Though the two forms remain distinct, today’s rising stars in both genres are creating a shared literary ideal that gives voice to the Black and brown experience. To create these letterpress posters, the Brooklyn-based artist Dread Scott chose lines and lyrics from contemporary poets and rappers featured in the accompanying essay. Here, Scott’s “slave grammar Sampled” (2021), inspired by Nate Marsh...