Michelin starred chef launches poetry competition (EDP24 - Eastern Daily Press)

Leading chef Galton Blackiston gave youngsters the recipe for literary success yesterday as he helped launch a major schools poetry competition. (read more)

Award Winning Poet Opens Poetry Night Series in Highland Park (MyCentralJersey.com)

Adele Kenny, publisher of more than 20 books, will be the featured reader at The Friends of the Library Poetry Night series on Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 PM. An open mike and refreshments will follow the reading that will take place at the Highland Park Public Library, 31 North Fifth Avenue. (read more)

Poetry wanted for Lake Oswego centennial poetry project (The Oregonian)

Authors whose works are accepted for publication will receive a copy of the published poetry chapbook as compensation. (read more)

Friends of the Library announce poetry competition (Harvard Hillside)

The Friends of the Harvard Public Library are pleased to announce the 10th annual John Faulkner Whitcomb Memorial Poetry Competition. (read more)

Poetry badassery TONIGHT! (San Antonio Current)

You're Invited! The young poets from the Krier JCTC will read Friday, March 19 @ 6:00 PM at Gemini Ink. Please join us for this first reading and publication of their poetry chapbook. (read more)

âGirl Talkâ poetry reading Saturday at West Caldwell library (The Progress)

West Caldwell twp. – In honor of Women’s History Month, 30 women poets from throughout New Jersey will read some of their published poems during “Girl Talk: A Women’s Poetry Reading” at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 13 in the Community Room of the West Caldwell Public Library, 30 Clinton Road. (read more)

Teen poetry contest at library in April (Port Clinton News Herald)

The Harris-Elmore Library's fifth annual Teen Poetry Contest will take place in April. (read more)

N.J. students participate in 5th annual 'Poetry Out Loud' competition (The Star-Ledger)

Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerMaria Albrecht of Shenendehowa High School reads the poem Thoughtless Cruelty by Charles Lamb during the NYS final competition in the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest.NEWARK -- Halfway through "Detroit, Tomorrow," a haunting poem by Pulitzer-winner Philip... (read more)

Steinbeck Center has kids' poetry contest (The Salinas Californian)

In honor of National Poetry month in April, The National Steinbeck Center, 1 Main St., Salinas, will be holding a poetry contest from April 1-30 for children 12 and younger. (read more)

St. Paul student takes state poetry recitation title, advances to national Poetry Out Loud competition (Pioneer Press)

Charles Whitson Collyard, a 16-year-old student at Great River School in St. Paul, is the 2010 Minnesota State Poetry Recitation champion. He will compete during the April 27 Poetry Out Loud national finals in Washington, D.C., against 49 other state winners. Top prize is a $20,000 college scholarship. (read more)