Category Archives: HoCoPoLitSo

Lucille Clifton & Carolyn Kizer Talk Writing

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

Now available for worldwide viewing on HoCoPoLitSo’s YouTube Channel, Lucille Clifton and Carolyn Kizer talking about writing. Lucille Clifton and Carolyn Kizer: In this first ever edition of HoCoPoLitSo’s “The Writing Life,” taped in 1985, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer … Continue reading →

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The Blackbird Poetry Festival Presents Poetry Seen, Celebrating Poetry and the Visual Arts — Tuesday, April 23rd

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

This Tuesday, the 2013 Blackbird Poetry Festival invites you to be a part of Poetry Seen, exploring the intersections of poetry and the visual arts. The day-long festival on the campus  of Howard Community College features writers Rives, Rachel Eliza … Continue reading →

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You, Colum McCann, The Narrowbacks, Stepdancing — HoCoPoLitSo’s Irish Evening — This Friday!

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

It’s time for Irish Evening! We’re told that writers in Ireland know when HoCoPoLitSo calls, you go. And they come from wherever they are to share with Howard County their work. Our Irish Evening is that special. This Friday it’s … Continue reading →

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Students’ Moments of ‘Quiet Potential’ with Writer-in-Residence

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

Sometimes the hands rise slowly.  Sometimes they shoot up quickly. Other times, hands rise up cautiously as the eyes dart around the room.  I love this moment for its honesty, its quiet potential, and the way that question maps out … Continue reading →

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Students and a Writer Ask: Am I Really Here for Poetry?

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

When I got the news that I was tapped to be the 2012-2013 HoCoPoLitSo writer-in-residence for Howard County back in early August, I was as nervous as I was excited. The nervousness I mention first because with my own schedule … Continue reading →

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Against the Ruins, Her Book of Poems

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

These fragments I have shored against my ruins. T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” by Tara Hart If nothing else, I am a reader. Perhaps because I always had my face in a book, my parents logically wondered when I would … Continue reading →

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Make Frank McCourt Proud: Buy a Ticket to Irish Evening Today.

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

On a tight budget? You have no idea. Here’s how Frank McCourt’s family’s budget – funded by the Irish dole — is tallied by his mother. “Nineteen shillings for the six of us? That’s less than four dollars in American … Continue reading →

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HoCoPoLitSo’s The Writing Life: A Number of Additional Episodes Now Online.

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

You’ll find a number of new episodes have recently been posted onto the HoCoPoLitSo YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/hocopolitso. In part, you’ll find: Novelist Carrie Brown speaks with short story writer Edith Pearlman. (2012) Michael Dirda speaks with Marie Arana about … Continue reading →

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HoCoPoLitSo: The Known Fertile Ground

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

Poet, publisher, and HoCoPoLitSo board member Truth Thomas takes a look at the year ahead for the organization and sees the promise of fertile ground. Fertile ground is a wondrous thing. That is one of the first lessons I remember … Continue reading →

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Who is rescuing whom? The writers or the readers?

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

The latest installment in our occasional series of blog posts from friends of HoCoPoLitSo. Today Patricia VanAmburg, poet and professor of English at Howard Community College, writes of the power of sharing in literature and asks a ‘simple’ question: Four … Continue reading →

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