Tag: poetry
Your View: Enjoy Alexandria’s roses
To the editor:
Recently my husband and I attended a musical performance based on the “Alexandria Suite,” a setting of poems about Old Town by...
Athenaeum to host award winning poet
On Friday, the Athenaeum will host C. Alexandria Bernard Thomas, an award-winning poet, orator and teacher. April is National Child Abuse Prevention as well...
The wonder of words
By Zeina Azzam
Every time we usher in another year, there is excitement about what lies ahead. We offer each other blessings and wishes of...
The power of poetry
By Zeina Azzam
For millennia, poetry has provided a powerful way to capture society’s imagination. Poetry has served as a recorder of history, a source...
ALX Kids: ‘If I were the teacher’
If I were the teacher, I’d be cool
as a cucumber! I’d build a pool
so we could get on a floaty
and do math. I’d give...
What is a Poet Laureate?
By Zeina Azzam
This is the question that I hear most often when people learn of my new position as Poet Laureate of the City...
The season for poetry
Signs of spring
By Cecelia McCormack
lush green leaves open
with life
ready for the joy
of spring yet to come
subtle yet brilliantly
bold
in their confidence of yellow,
pink
gold
flowers,
they stand
proud and...
City names Zeina Azzam new poet laureate
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
From an early age, Zeina Azzam has been deeply fascinated by poetry.
Azzam grew up reading the likes of E.E. Cummings, T.S....
Poet Laureate KaNikki Jakarta brings ‘real life fiction’ to Alexandria
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
KaNikki Jakarta was born with the words of Nikki Giovanni and Maya Angelou in her head.
While pregnant, Jakarta’s mother would...
Alexandria celebrates new poet laureate KaNikki Jakarta
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
The Office of the Arts and the Alexandria Library are hosting an induction reception for Alexandria’s newly appointed poet laureate,...
