Poetry – The UncommonWealth

National Poetry Month 2024 With Melanie McCabe

Melanie McCabe is the author of three books of poetry: The Night Divers (a finalist for the most recent Library of Virginia Literary Awards), What…

Guest ContributorApril 26, 2024

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National Poetry Month 2024 with Laura Bylenok

Laura Bylenok is the author of three books, including Living Room, winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry; Warp, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize;…

Guest ContributorApril 19, 2024

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National Poetry Month 2024 with Gregory Orr

Gregory Orr is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Selected Books of the Beloved. He is also the…

Guest ContributorApril 12, 2024

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Lock Her Up

Tina Parker is the author of three books of poetry. The poetry collection Mother May I and the poetry chapbook Another Offering were published in 2016. Her newest collection, Lock…

Nan CarmackApril 21, 2023

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National Poetry Month 2023 with Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley is the author of Made to Explode, winner of the Housatonic Book Award; Count the Waves; I Was the Jukebox, winner of the…

Guest ContributorApril 7, 2023

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Snapshots of Violence

The Common Ground Virginia History Book Club focuses on approachable books focused on Virginia-centered nonfiction. Most of these books are historical narratives and biographies such…

Library of VirginiaDecember 21, 2022

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National Poetry Month Blog: Week 4, Annie Kim

For the final week of National Poetry Month, we are pleased to present our LVA Virginia Literary Award winning poet, Annie Kim, as our guest…

Guest ContributorApril 22, 2022

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National Poetry Month Blog: Week 3, Kiki Petrosino

The Library of Virginia is a favorite haunt for genealogists, tracking down their ancestors with great hopes of finding a notable person in their family…

Nan CarmackApril 15, 2022

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National Poetry Month Blog: Week 2, Bill Glose

Bill Glose was born into a military family, moving frequently overseas, but found home at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. An ROTC Hokie, Bill…

Nan CarmackApril 8, 2022

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LVA celebrates National Poetry Month 2022 with its Virginia Literary Award Winners and Nominees

Robert Frost said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” Virginia’s own Rita Dove advances this thought:…

Nan CarmackApril 1, 2022

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Celebrating National Poetry Month: David Huddle

Poetry. Heart music, soul song. There is something about this particular arrangement of words that digs a deeper meaning out of a word, a phrase.…

Nan CarmackApril 23, 2021

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Celebrating National Poetry Month: Lauren K. Alleyne

Poetry. Heart music, soul song. There is something about this particular arrangement of words that digs a deeper meaning out of a word, a phrase.…

Nan CarmackApril 16, 2021

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Celebrating National Poetry Month 2021: Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Poetry. Heart music, soul song. There is something about this particular arrangement of words that digs a deeper meaning out of a word, a phrase.…

Nan CarmackApril 9, 2021

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Wrap Up the Week with More Virginia Poetry

Welcome to week 3 of our exploration of Virginia Literary Award Poetry Winners and Finalists. This week we feature LVA runners up Bob Hicok and…

Nan CarmackApril 24, 2020

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Virginia Literary Award-Winning Poetry During National Poetry Month

This week, we explore the poetry of Claudia Emerson (1957-2014). Emerson served as the 2008-2010 Poet Laureate of Virginia, and won the Pulitzer Prize in…

Nan CarmackApril 17, 2020