Vasantotsavam 2025 Celebrates Telugu New Year with Poetry, Music, and Dance

-Advertisement- Hyderabad: To celebrate the Telugu New Year, Navya Sahiti Samiti and Navya Nataka Samiti held a cultural event called Vasantotsavam 2025. The event took place at the NTR Auditorium in Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University. It was held just …

From Panama to the Amazon rainforest, ‘Daughters of Latin America’ poetry anthology captures the community

Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Panama and the Amazon rainforest: These are only a few of the many locations the contributors of the new anthology “Daughters of Latin America” call home.  While they come from different nations, the experiences and …

Poetry, Art, Fashion & Basketball: Celebrating Women & Culture on This Week’s Back2Besa

This week on Back2Besa, we kick off National Poetry Month, hit up The Feels 9 art show, pass out Molly Moon’s at ETC Tacoma as we sign people up for the FOX Local App, tour Seattle’s new AI House, and chat with Seattle Storm head coach Noelle Quinn. Plus, …

Chaucer’s Books Poetry Month Features Author Sharon Frances

Chaucer’s Books presents A Poetry Month Celebration, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 at 3321 State St., Santa Barbara. The event will feature poet and artist Sharon Frances (“Ash and Feather”), young poets’ prize winner recognition from CalPoets in the Schools …

Vasantotsavam 2025 Brings in the Telugu New Year with Poetry, Music, and Dance

Hyderabad: Navya Sahiti Samiti, in collaboration with Navya Nataka Samiti, ushered in the Telugu New Year with Vasantotsavam 2025, a cultural celebration held at the NTR Auditorium, Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University. Rooted in the spirit of Vasantha—the …

Celebrating National Poetry Month with Chicago's Poetic Goods

On Poetry: A poem that speaks of suffering 'vibrating outwards'

When my father was living his last years in a nursing facility, there was a woman there who spoke no English. I don’t know how she got there, or anything about her background, I only remember her suffering, her desperate effort to be understood at the end …

Latrobe filled with poets, poetry events throughout April

Sometimes, Sri Lanka native Indran Amirthanayagam is overwhelmed by an emotion. It could be sadness, or it could be great joy. “I want to get it out,” said Amirthanayagam, 64, of Washington, D.C., who has been writing poetry since the age of 14. “I love …

Triptych inspired by RS Thomas’ poetry installed at Welsh church

The RS Thomas Triptych. Image: Terry Duffy Stephen Price The internationally acclaimed artist Terry Duffy has been invited to install his large-scale masterpiece, the RS Thomas Triptych, upon the altar at St Hywyn’s Church, Aberdaron. This historic …

Irish poetry and song with Kate Chadbourne

LUNENBURG — Storyteller, singer, and harper Kate Chadbourne is excited to celebrate spring and April Poetry Month with traditional Irish poems set to music, stories that extol cleverness and courage, and poems that warm the heart. Her performance will be …