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The College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) is an annual Poetry Slam tournament put on by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) in which teams of four or five college students from different colleges and universities compete against each other. Its location changes every year.
The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College.The "invitation-only competition is sponsored by the English department at Mount Holyoke and counts many well-known poets, including Sylvia Plath and James Merrill, among its past winners" [1] and is thought to be the "oldest intercollegiate poetry ...
The inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, performing at the Library of Congress. [1]National Youth Poet Laureate is a title held in the United States by a young person who demonstrates skill in the arts, particularly poetry and/or spoken word, is a strong leader, is committed to social justice, and is active in civic discourse and advocacy.
The inaugural competition took place after the end of World War I, just as an influx of young veterans returned from fighting in Europe and entered college. [9] Modernist poetry emerged in this period, but early entries in the series reflected the neoclassical tastes of the older generation adjudicating the competition, all men who had received ...
The words are lenses as winners of this month’s Cape Cod Times Poetry Contest capture images of the world around them. And what a world it is. “Wild Fennel” by Kathleen Casey. “A Beach ...
Formed in 1949, the American Forensic Association was created with the goal of teaching students to utilize the skills of argumentation and advocacy. In the first decades of its existence, the AFA was primarily focused on promoting debate competitions, with little to no interest in individual events.
Poetry slams began in Chicago in the 1980s, [1] with the first slam competition designed to move poetry recitals from academia to a popular audience. American poet Marc Smith , believing the poetry scene at the time was "too structured and stuffy", began experimenting by attending open-microphone poetry readings, and then turning them into ...
The organization promotes poetry, conducts biannual contests, and organizes workshops, meetings, readings and other events. The Alabama State Poetry Society was founded in 1968 [5] and incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit in 2015. [6] The organization is based in Huntsville and is affiliated with the National Federation of State Poetry ...