Public Poetry

We are a Houston, Texas based non-profit organization that ORIGINATES innovative programs and projects and COLLABORATES with community partners to bring poets and poetry to the public.

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Hear James Houlihan read at Public Poetry’s First Saturday poetry reading on August 2, at 2pm at Heights Neighborhood Library.

J’s Further Appearances - James Houlihan

What can you say to me

When I came through the ice-blue window?

I came for beauty

Where did you think I came from?

That...

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James Houlihan will be reading again at Public Poetry's First Saturday on December 6. Learn more here.

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Good News!

The ARTlines2 poetry competition has extended the deadline to December 15! That's two extra weeks to polish your ekphrastic poetry.

Learn more at ARTlines2.

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Live Webcast at 7pm

Join Pattiann Rogers tonight as she discusses Theodore Roethke’s poetry as a part of Public Poetry’s Ex Libris.

Find out more and join the live webcast here.

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Pattiann Rogers will lead the Ex Libris discussion tomorrow about Theodore Roethke's poetry!

Join the live webcast discussion and learn more at Public Poetry!

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Tomorrow is the early deadline for ARTlines2!

Submit your ekphrastic poetry at ARTlines2.

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Come out to Central Library to hear Carolyn Adams, Sybill Pittman Estess, André de Korvin and Katherine Durham Oldmixon read their poetry!

More info at Public Poetry.

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New P.O.P video.

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Jared Singer and Anthony Ragler - “Potential” "Too many fools think success is the reason to reach.” Performing for NYC- Urbana at the 2014 National Poetry Slam. Subscribe to Button on YouTube!

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EX LIBRIS Tomorrow!

Is Richard Howard a tragedian? a comedian? Something else?

Find out tomorrow at EX LIBRIS! Join us at 7pm for a live discussion. Learn more here.

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A haiku from the article: When the Ice Melts

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Image: Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and wit Oscar Wilde, circa 1881. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Today (Oct. 16) is the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s birth. And what better way to mark the occasion than with some of his wittiest material? Par exemple:

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

“The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.”

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

And there’s lots more over on Mental Floss.

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Only 47 days left to enter your ekphrastic poetry to ARTlines2

Learn more at artlines2.net

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Ex Libris - 7pm, October 21, Online at Public Poetry

Ex Libris is an online, free discussion of poetry with a poet hosted by Public Poetry at 7pm on the third Tuesday of each month.

This month, we are honored to have Rika Lesser discuss Richard Hower’s “Progressive Education”/”Paper Trail.” Join the discussion on October 21. Learn more at Public Poetry.

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Robert Frost

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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 -1849) died on this day165 years ago.

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Were I a Martyr Trans. Darya Ali and Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse I want no flowers, no epoch of union, no dawn of disunion. I want no flowers for I am the loveliest flower. I want no kisses if for a true wrist I must hold some knight – no epoch of marriage, no dawn of divorce, no widow’s...

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The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902.

10 volumes. (8vo) original vellum-backed boards, spines gilt, top edges gilt, original printed cloth jackets. No. 408 of 500 sets of the Book-Lover’s Camden Edition, signed in print by the publisher. Volumes 1 through 3 contain Leaves of Grass, Volumes 4 through 10 comprise his miscellaneous prose works.