VERVE POETRY
Poetry organization running VERVE Poetry Festival, year-round projects that champion new voices, and writing community. VERVE is a home for poetry that is live, lived, and alive.
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These poems place what's going on in the world as background noise to relational encounters.
May 26 VERVE Poem of the Month winning and shortlisted poems.
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Poetry lets me look at one thing closely and slowly for a long time.
"In the rest of my life it is loud and busy and chaotic and I flit from one thing to another in a deeply inefficient way." An interview with Nia…
Jun 10•VERVE Poetry
Accountability Hour for Poets
Access to Writing Hour with Suzannah Evans-Furnass tomorrow at 5:30pm.
May 31•VERVE Poetry
Poetry fits so neatly into a morning or a spare hour, and it brings such freedom into that time.
Suzannah Evans Furnass on poetry, green spaces, and never getting schticky. She takes the helm as Writing Hour host from June 1st, the first Monday of…
May 18•VERVE Poetry
When someone hands you a perfect line, you don't ask questions. You just write the poem.
Vanessa Lampert on horses, instinct, and the gift of a friend's throwaway remark, alongside her influences, her community, and what's coming next. An…
May 10•VERVE Poetry
the more I stared at it, the less I feared it... I wanted to write a poem about this transformation I felt, the joy it evoked in me, and the…
Minutes after I confess I'm arachnophobic, you show me... Debmalya Bandyopadhyay won our POEM OF THE FESTIVAL. He reads at a live online reading…
May 5•VERVE Poetry
The ‘Radiohead of Poetry’ - Shortlisted Poet of the Festival Lisette on miserable poems, NHS years, and why everyone's life is interesting.
There will be a live online reading from poets alongside Victoria Kennefick May 10th.
May 3•VERVE Poetry
Horse, Marble, Wax: The Mould and the Metaphor in this Month's POTM Selection
Presenting April's POEM's OF THE MONTH. The thread between all selected poems is breaking; a horse, from the status quo, the rules, a heart, marble into…
Apr 30•VERVE Poetry
My Dearest Friend by Lady Red Ego with Xiaoyu Luo shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize.
inspired by Anne Carson *since forever, and currently James Baldwin, Nella Larsen, Octavia Butler, and Ursula K. Le Guin, it's no wonder. Here, poet and…