All Poetry’s Eve

Today in the ArtZany! Radio studio Paula Granquist celebrates poetry with Rob Hardy, the Poet Laureate of Northfield and Scott Grave, Arcadia Charter School Poetry Out Loud Advisor, and students Anna Kochever, Minnesota Poetry Out Loud Champion and Bella Callery, Minnesota Poetry Out Loud Finalist.

ArtZany! – Radio for the Imagination 03/31/2017

  • Poetry Out Loud (poetryoutloud.org) encourages students to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation. This program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about literary history and contemporary life.
    • Anna Kochever will represent Minnesota in the Poetry Out Loud National Finals in Washington, DC, April 25-26, 2017.
  • Discover Poetry and Events in Northfield: 

http://guides.mynpl.org/PoetLaureate

  • Rob Hardy Book Launch

Domestication: Collected Poems 1996-2016
Thursday, April 6, 2017 – 7:00pm
Content Bookstore
314 Division Street, Northfield, MN 55057

“In work that is at once accessible, enjoyable, and wonderfully well-made Hardy shows, without pretentious display, that poetry is not an outsider’s cryptic game.”  — poet Emilio DeGrazia, author of A Canticle of Bread and Stones, and most recently, Eye Shadow (Rocket Science Press, 2014).

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