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Poetry

KHSA English teacher Maddie Luebbert throws their hands up in celebration and cheers with other faculty, staff, and City Year leaders, as they learn that the Tiger Poets will advance to the second round at championships. (Photo by Maggie Loesch)
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Tiger Poets: ‘It’s about … being able to see what you have went through, and what you overcame’

The poetry team is a safe haven and home-away-from-home for both poets and coaches —  it provides a creative outlet and space to work through adversities. 

3 years ago

Greenfield Elementary School playground. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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WHYY’s Morning Edition listeners honor National Poetry Month through haiku

WHYY's Morning Edition listeners celebrate their neighborhoods through haiku during National Poetry Month.

3 years ago

Spoken word artist Ursula Rucker. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Philadelphia poet Ursula Rucker finds salvation in poetry

To mark the end of National Poetry Month, Ursula Rucker sat down with WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn to discuss her writing.

3 years ago

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Danny Simmons, creator of Def Poetry Jam, has organized a reunion of Def poets at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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‘Def Poetry Jam’ sounds again at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Seventeen years after the HBO show ‘Def Poetry Jam’ went off the air, co-creator Danny Simmons is reviving the spoken word showcase in Philadelphia.

3 years ago

Philadelphia's poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Philly poet laureate coordinating summer poetry festival with Boston

Raquel Salas Rivera won $50,000 from the Academy of American Poets and will use a portion of to fund a summer poetry festival between Philadelphia and Boston.

3 years ago

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Poet Richard Blanco

Poet Richard Blanco describes himself as being "made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, imported to the USA" and his poems, focusing largely on national identity, reflect this.

Air Date: April 9, 2019

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Market-rate town homes are under construction at 3300 Mantua Avenue. Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell steered the lot to the project's developer. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Jannie Blackwell helped a developer get city land. Now he’s hosting a fundraiser for her.

West Philadelphia Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell directed public land to be sold at below-market prices to developer Rick Young. Now he’s hosting a fundraiser for her.

3 years ago

A film featuring the residents of Whitman, Alabama, reciting Walt Whitman's
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In ‘Whitman, Alabama,’ the bard from Long Island goes down South

The series of short films bring Walt Whitman’s poetry to Alabama where regular folks recite lines from ‘Song of Myself.’

3 years ago

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Poet Charles Bernstein, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, has received the prestigious Bollingen Prize for his poetic achievement. (University of Pennsylvania)
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University of Penn poet Charles Bernstein wins major literary prize

The award, which comes with a $165,000 purse, is given every two years from Yale University to an American poet for lifetime achievement on the event of a new publication.

4 years ago

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‘Thank you, America’: A crowdsourced holiday poem that’s a blessing to read

Earlier in November, we asked our readers and listeners to share what about America they are most thankful for.

4 years ago

Wes Matthews, 17, a rising senior at Science Leadership Academy, is Philadelphia's new Youth Poet Laureate.
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Philadelphia names youth poet laureate

Wes Matthews, 17, has been named Philadelphia's youth poet laureate. He moved here from Detroit just a year ago.

4 years ago

The language of Jos Charles' “feeld” is like an artifact from a different time, a kind of “lost Middle English” concieved to describe the trans experience in new ways. Photo by Getty Images
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To describe the trans experience, this poet created a new dialect

Part science fiction, part medieval reinterpretation, “feeld” by trans poet Jos Charles can feel like a puzzle, making readers work for its meaning.

4 years ago

W.D. Ehrhart makes introductions at an event at Fergies's Pub in Center City to celebrate a recently released book of poetry by Vietnam veterans. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
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Veterans’ poems address psychic wounds of Vietnam

Vietnam vets gather in Center City to share contributions to a new anthology of poetry about the scars of war.

4 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight, June 25, 2018

A Philadelphia judge has sentenced two brothers to life in prison without parole for fatally shooting a police officer in 2015. Two Cong ...

Air Date: June 25, 2018

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Highlights from the 10th Annual Juneteenth Festival. (Photo Courtesy/Tieshka Smith for the Johnson House Historic Site, Philadelphia, PA)
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Celebrating Juneteenth at Philadelphia’s Johnson House

Just over a month ago, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum opened in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to the victims of white supremacy in the Unit

4 years ago

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