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In honor of National Poetry Month, associate editor Satya Nelms shares the importance of poetry in her life.
Jill Brook’s fourth-grade Online Academy class has been studying and writing poetry for the winter season. They began by reading dozens of selections included in “100 Poems from Japanese” (collected and translated by Kenneth Rexroth). Next, says Brook, “We observed what feeling and/or image was created” by the poems’ brief lines. Lastly, the students wrote their own poems.
On October 7, the Mad Poets Society’s “First Wednesday” reading series will feature Swarthmore resident Dilruba Ahmed and Swarthmore College alumna Keetje Kuipers. The program will be on Zoom from 7 to 9 p.m., and will conclude with an open mic session at which anyone may read a poem.
Ruba Ahmed’s book “Bring Now the Angels” was published on April 14 by the University of Pittsburgh Press, which has published such poets as Sharon Olds, Ross Gay, and Richard Blanco. We spoke recently by phone about the poems, her teaching, and how she got to Swarthmore, with her kids occasionally audible in the background.
On Monday, October 28, Pendle Hill will host Irish poet and peacemaker Pádraig Ó Tuama as he explores poems that deepen the language of the heart in troubled times, in a free evening talk, open to the public.
Nothing would make you suspect that Tina Johnson would become Ernestine Louise, the recently published poet who will read and sign her book at Swarthmore Borough Hall on Wednesday, October 23.
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Lindsay Lusby, and Nancy Reddy land “(M)other(ship): A Mother of a Poetry Reading” at the Community Arts Center on Wednesday, September 4, in the monthly session of the Mad Poets Society.
