Tag: poetry
Magic City Poetry Festival Kicks Off, Pays Tribute To City’s Civil...
By Shauna Stuart
AL.com
The month-long Magic City Poetry Festival celebration of poetry, history, and nature kicked off last week with Alabama poet laureate Ashley Jones’...
Birmingham Teens Use Poetry to Speak Against Gun Violence During CBS42...
By AJ Holliday, Sherri Jackson
This is another installment in The Birmingham Times/AL.com/CBS42 joint series “Beyond the Violence: What can be done to address Birmingham’s rising...
Alabama poet laureate Ashley M. Jones awarded $50,000 grant from the...
By Shauna Stuart | sstuart@al.com
Alabama poet laureate Ashley Jones has been awarded $50,000 to support her public poetry projects.
The Academy of American Poets has...
Birmingham School Students Star During Opening of Magic City Art Connection
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Hundreds of students from several elementary and middle schools gathered Friday on a bright and warm morning under the shade...
How Ashley M. Jones Became the Most Influential Poet in Alabama
By Javacia Harris Bowser
For The Birmingham Times
At the center of all she does from serving as founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival...
A Few Poets in the State You Need to Know
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Get to know these Birmingham-area poets.
Kwoya Fagin Maples
Maples, 39, teaches in the creative writing master’s degree program at her alma...
Birmingham’s Ashley Jones Named Alabama’s First Black Poet Laureate
By Javacia Harris Bowser
For The Birmingham Times
Ashley M. Jones, founder of the Magic City Poetry Festival, has been named the next Poet Laureate for Alabama,...
People, Places and Things
By Gwen DeRu
TODAY
**Thursday Night with VOCALIST DOMINIQUE POSEY at Perfect Note.
**WEIRD-ASS COMEDY TOUR w/ Special Guests THE YELLOW DANDIES at The Nick.
**COMEDIAN RON FEINGOLD...
How Bards and Brews unifies the Birmingham arts community
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Eddie Melton took part in the national discourse last week during a spoken-word event in front of a packed room...
People, Places and Things
By Gwen DeRu
APRIL SHOWERS AND MAY FLOWERS!!
TODAY
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TASTE OF BESSEMER AND BUSINESS EXPO, 4-8 p.m. Call...
