US EditionCity of Santa Barbara to appoint new Poet Laureate for National Poetry Month
- The Santa Barbara City Council will appoint George Yatchisin as Poet Laureate, starting 2025 and serving until 2027.
- This appointment by the City Council supports the recognition of National Poetry Month and the program's 20th year.
- Yatchisin's background includes teaching and communications at UCSB for 29 years, plus writing for various publications.
- Yatchisin has authored two poetry collections, with titles including, "The First Night We Thought the World Would End" and "Feast Days."
- Poetry, like the Robert Frost lines referenced, can stay with us, offering devotion and wisdom by shifting one's gaze.
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Everyday ethics: The power of poetry
In “Upstream,” a book of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver wrote: “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” I believe attention is not only the beginning of devotion but also of wisdom, since staying alert to the life within us and the world around is the essential task of being fully awake. Unfortunately as a schoolchild I was often told by my teacher: “Johnny, pay attention. Stop looking out the window!” Many times the sights out…
Meet (and listen to) the Idaho Poetry Out Loud champion
Emma Eldred is the 2025 Idaho champion in the Poetry Out Loud competition. Rebecca Martin is education director at the Idaho Commission on the Arts.( Idaho Commission on the Arts)Plato said, “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” And 5th century BC poet Simonides of Ceos wrote, “Poetry is painting that speaks.” Indeed, poetry is meant to be spoken, and no one has known that better over the last several weeks than hundreds of Idaho stude…
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