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Check It Out: The Baltimore Sun Previews This Year’s Blackbird Poetry Festival
The Baltimore Sun‘s Explore Howard website has previewed this year’s Blackbird Poetry Festival. The article reports: HoCoPoLitSo executive director Carla Du Pree says her group “promises a night of...
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HoCoPoLitSo: The Known Fertile Ground
Poet, publisher, and HoCoPoLitSo board member Truth Thomas takes a look at the year ahead for the organization and sees the promise of fertile ground. Fertile ground is a wondrous thing. That is one of...
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The Blackbird Poetry Festival Presents Poetry Seen, Celebrating Poetry and...
This Tuesday, the 2013 Blackbird Poetry Festival invites you to be a part of Poetry Seen, exploring the intersections of poetry and the visual arts. The day-long festival on the campus of Howard...
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Poetry, A Community College Student’s Perspective by Katy Day
We asked Howard Community College student Katy Day for her perspective of poetry on campus. Take a look at what she delighted us with: HCC student, aspiring writer and newborn poetry fanatic Katy Day...
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Give the Gift of Lit: Tickets to Billy Collins and the 36th Annual Irish...
Another year where you have to find that certain someone something especially special? HoCoPoLitSo is here to help. This year, HoCoPoLitSo would like to make your life a little easier, giving you the...
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Blackbird Poetry Festival Features Billy Collins, “The Most Popular Poet in...
Date: December 20, 2013 Contact: Pam Kroll Simonson, (443) 518-4568, hocopolitso@yahoo.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Blackbird Poetry Festival Features Billy Collins, “The Most Popular Poet in...
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Blackbird Poetry Festival Features Billy Collins, “The Most Popular Poet in...
Contact: Pam Kroll Simonson, (443) 518-4568, hocopolitso@yahoo.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Howard County Poetry & Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo), in partnership with Howard Community College’s...
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“Rock Star” Billy Collins Delights Columbia Audience With Poetry.
It’s not often that Columbia hosts a national poet laureate. And even less frequently can we listen to a poet laureate whose publishing contract ran to six figures with Random House. Turns out, that’s...
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This Time, “The Young” Speak – Katy Day
In my previous post, “Poetry for the Young (and the Young-Hearted)”, I promised you voices of our young poetry lovers. First up is HoCoPoLitSo’s Student on Board Member, Katy Day. Katy is a student at...
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Blackbird Poetry Festival’s “Nightbird” Features Taylor Mali
The Howard County Poetry & Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo), in partnership with Howard Community College’s Office of Student Life, English/World Languages Division, and Arts & Humanities...
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Nsikan’s Young Life with Poetry
In the last few months, we heard from Katy Day and Faheem Dyer about what poetry means to them. Today, in the last part of our series on young people on poetry and literature, we hear from...
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Marie Howe to read at 8th Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival
HoCoPoLitSo’s guest for its eighth annual Blackbird Poetry Festival is former New York State Poet Laureate and acclaimed author Marie Howe. The Blackbird Poetry Festival, to be held April 28, 2016, on...
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Tyehimba Jess to read at HoCoPoLitSo’s 9th Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival
HoCoPoLitSo’s guest for its ninth annual Blackbird Poetry Festival is award winning writer and slam poet Tyehimba Jess. The Blackbird Poetry Festival, to be held April 27, 2017, on the campus of Howard...
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black nature – a reading for earth day and national poetry month
By Laura Yoo April is National Poetry Month, and Saturday, April 22nd is Earth Day. And I have a book recommendation that can help celebrate both: Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American...
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facing the chaos of truth: Tara Hart on the Poetry of Tyehimba Jess
Tara Hart, Co-Chair of HoCoPoLitSo Board of Directors and Professor of English at Howard Community College A blog post by Tara Hart, Co-Chair of HoCoPoLitso Board of Directors Especially at this time,...
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Presenting Marilyn Chin — Tenth Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival — April 26
The Fierce Revolution of Marilyn Chin HoCoPoLitSo and HCC’s Tenth Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival Marilyn Chin Award-winning poet and author Marilyn Chin headlines the tenth annual Blackbird Poetry...
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“Up Close and Personal” at the Recent Blackbird Poetry Festival
During Olympics’ coverage when I was a kid, ABC’s genial Jim McKay used to do interviews with athletes called “Up Close and Personal.” Sure, ice skating and swimming competitions were cool to watch,...
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Coffee-Stained Margins: a guest post by Eunice Braimoh
Marilyn Chin reading at the 10th Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival hosted by Howard County Poetry and Literature Society and Howard Community College on April 26, 2018 I had never heard of Marilyn Chin....
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Poetry of Wit and Wonder — Eleventh Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival
Mississippi’s Poet Laureate Beth Ann Fennelly headlines the eleventh annual Blackbird Poetry Festival for HoCoPoLitSo. The festival, set for April 25, 2019, on the campus of Howard Community College,...
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Cancelled – 12th Annual Blackbird Poetry Festival to Feature Poet/Journalist...
Regretfully, this year’s Blackbird Poetry Festival is now cancelled due to the public health crisis. Jeffrey Brown, Journalist and Poet. Poet and PBS Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown headlines the...
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