National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month so what better time to explore poetry in all its forms. Whether you prefer rhyme or a little blank verse, a love sonnet, or a snarky limerick, there's a poem to match every mood. If you search the EvCC library catalog, for instance, you'll find more than 750 items with the subject heading of poetry. Check out these links to a few favorite poets to get your started:
Billy Collins - Flames Kathleen Flenniken – Horse Latitudes
Shel Silverstein - Sick Tony Hoagland – A Color of The Sky
How Well Do You Know Your Poets?
Can you tell Milton from Marlowe?
Take this 20 question quiz to test yourself!
Put a Poem in Your Day
Poetry is perhaps the easiest way to put a little literature in every day. It only takes a few minutes and can make a big difference, as Alan Heathcock shares.
Poets Among Us
Poets are around every corner at Everett Community College! Some are published and others share only with their friends (until now). Take a minute, click on the image to learn a little about (and listen to) six of the many poets at EvCC. Thanks to Bethany Reid, Earl Martin, Jennifer Beebe, Rich Ives, Kathryn Johnson, and Kevin Craft for sharing their work with all of us.
Click on the image below to learn a little about each of them and to hear a selected work.
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More about the Poets
Bethany Reid's poetry has appeared in the pages of CALYX numerous times over the past twenty years. Other recent publications include The Sun, Superstition Review, Blackbird, Pontoon, Crosscurrents, and Stringtown. She teaches creative writing and American literature and blogs at awritersalchemy.blogspot.com. She read The Apple Orchard.
Earl Martin has been a counselor at EvCC since 1990 and started writing in his 30's. He read Grandma's Pain.
Jennifer Beebe teaches creative non fiction and fiction writing classes. Her work can be found in Los Angeles Review, Northwest Review, Cider Press Review and Seattle Review among others. Her manuscript, Again an Oath in the Face of Absence, is an AROHO To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize finalist, a Beatrice Hawley Book Award finalist, and a St. Lawrence Book Award finalist. She read Last Question.
Rich Ives' writings and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including Verse, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, and Northwest Review. He has received NEA grants for editing and publishing two of his three-volume series of the best of Northwest writing, Rain in the Forest, Light in the Trees (poetry), From Timberline to Tidepool (fiction) and The Truth About the Territory (creative nonfiction). He read Confidential.
Kathryn Johnson teaches reading and study skills classes in the Developmental Education department She read Christmas Present.
Kevin Craft's first book, Solar Prominence, was selected by Vern Rutsala for the Gorsline Prize from Cloudbank Books (2005). His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared widely in such places as Poetry, AGNI, Verse, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Stranger, and Poetry Daily. He also teaches Creative Writing for the University of Washington's Summer in Rome Program, and is the editor of Poetry Northwest. He read Two Ravens.
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