Favorite Poem Project Complete
“In offering the Favorite Poem Project, my hope was to engage our community in thinking about the role poetry plays in our lives. It stays with us because of a delightful image, like e. e. cummings’ “wee balloonman” or Frost’s “Two roads diverged in a wood,” or because of the sound of the language, as in Edward Lear’s “They danced by the light of the moon,” or Poe’s “Quoth the Raven, nevermore.”
MV Poet Laureate Marianne Taylor extends call for your favorite poems
Marianne Taylor, Mount Vernon’s poet laureate, has removed the deadline for submissions in the local Favorite Poem Project. “We had such a great turnout at our reading event on April 6 that I want to encourage people who haven’t participated to submit their poems,” Taylor said.
Arts Council brings Favorite Poem Project to Mount Vernon
People are invited to submit their favorite non-original poem online and explain why they love it or what influence it has had on them. Submissions must be a published poem written by someone other than the reader and must include an explanation. All submissions will be archived on the Mount Vernon Area Arts Council website.
Now that November is gone…
I thought it would be a good time to share a few of the poems that have been featured in the Poetry Box located in front of Mount Vernon’s First Presbyterian Church on Main Street. Each month I will be selecting a handful of poems to be placed in the box, roughly one per week, so that the poem can be read by all passersby.