Willamette Week

Oregon Poet Laureate’s Tele-Poems Line Returns for National Poetry Month

Anis Mojgani Anis Mojgani reading poems from his studio. Photo by Chelsea Querner. Oregon’s poetry hotline is back in service. Oregon poet laureate Anis Mojgani has relaunched the Tele-Poem Telephone ...
Springfield News-Leader

Poetry from Daily Life: Word by word, line by line, collecting, stacking, making a rhyme

Words. Alone or strung together they are delicious, emotional, heart-tugging and clever. They are woven throughout our lives. They evoke images and memories we have stored in our minds and hearts. As ...
Edutopia

Sharpening Students’ Observation Skills Through Poetry

Practice with the attention to detail and language choices needed for poetry writing can help elementary students with other kinds of writing as well.
NPR

Natasha Trethewey: Poetry Speaks 'Across The Lines That Would Divide Us'

Natasha Trethewey — former Poet Laureate of the United States — has a new collection of poems out about American history, personal history, and the lives of people who are often overlooked by history ...
KTVZ

Oregon poet laureate’s Tele-Poems line returns for National Poetry Month

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani has brought back the Tele-Poem Telephone Line for National Poetry Month. Poetry-lovers can call 503-928-7008 to hear Mojgani and other Oregon ...