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2023-2024
2023-2024
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2022-2023
Spoken Word Category Added to Benvenuto High School Poetry Competition
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2022-2023
2021-2022
2021-22 Programming Theme Announced
Benvenuto and Samet High School Winners Announced
Applications Now Open for 2022-2024 Lansing Poet Laureate
Call for 2022 Balocating Prize Announced
"Ice Hours" Wins 2021 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize (Established)
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2021-2022
Student Nominations Sought for Live Lit
2020-2021
2020-2021
"Swan Hammer: An Instructor's Guide to Mirrors" wins Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize
2019-2020
2019-2020
A Note From Founding Director of the Center for Poetry, Anita Skeen
2019 Benvenuto/Samet Winners Announced
Smuggling Elephants Through Airport Security Released from MSU Press
"Not for Luck" wins Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize
Spring Series postponed
"Spit" Wins Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2018 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize (Emerging), Kristin Brace, interviewed on Electric Poetry
Prior to 2019-2020
Prior to 2019-2020
Noah Davis wins Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize
Founder Anita Skeen featured in MSU Today
In Person With George Ellenbogen
RCAH Center for Poetry Intern Jenny Crakes Visits Lansing STEM Academy
In Person with Carolyn Gage
Documenting Barbara Presnell
River of Words Poetry Workshop at Lansing STEM Academy
Looking Foward: Poets Laureate and The Spring Poetry Series
In Person with: Ann Pancake
An Afternoon with Diane Wakoski
Local writer nominated for literary prize
Festival Of Listening
Poetry Center director Anita Skeen and former RCAH professor Laura DeLind publish collaborative book
Detroit Poet Jamaal May visits East Lansing
Center for Poetry intern wins poetry prize
Virginia poet laureate visits RCAH
Memoirist Jane Congdon in conversation with RCAH community
Storyteller weaves tales at Poetry Center
Canadian poet grants Center for Poetry endowment
2014 Fall Writing Series wraps up with nonfiction writer
Benvenuto winners visit Center for Poetry
Center for Poetry Director Anita Skeen honored with William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award
MSU Composition project “Voicing Poetry” featured on local NPR
Grand Rapids poet joins Center for Poetry for writing workshop
Center for Poetry celebrates women’s history with Robin Silbergleid reading
Spring Poetry Series opens with Michigan poet, teacher Dennis Hinrichsen
RCAH Center for Poetry Hosts Conference for Educators and Writers
2015 Balocating Prize for Poetry: “Memorial Day” by Connor Yeck
Renowned poet, activist, and MSU alumna Carolyn Forché returns to campus
An interview with Leila Chatti, poet and former RCAH student
Lansing poet kicks off Fall Writing Series
Folklorists visit Center for Poetry as part of Fall Writing Festival
Father and son duo Marvin and Nathan Bell visit Center for Poetry
Frogpond associate editor, Center for Poetry to start haiku study group
Renowned Translator and nye musician bring new perspectives to annual Translation Conversation
RCAH Center for Poetry, Lansing Poetry Club making the bid for Michigan Poet Laureate
2016 Haiku Hike at MSU Science Festival
Making up for lost time: Postcards from the Voyage of Robin Coste Lewis
RCAH Center for Poetry, Lansing Poetry Club, LEAP seek Lansing Poet Laureate
AWP 2017: It Takes a Village
Center For Poetry Brings Color to Campus
Adventures in Linocut Printing
“Poetic Justice” is in (and on!) the Air
2018 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize (Emerging) Winner Selected
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"Exodus of Sparks" wins 2024 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize
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Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer
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2022-2023
2022-2023 Academic Year Archives
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Evergreen Haiku Study Group October meeting
Evergreen Haiku Study Group November meeting
Evergreen Haiku Study Group December meeting
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2021-2022
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Poetry of Witness, Poetry of Resistance Series: An Evening with Divya Victor and Serena Chopra
Evergreen Haiku Study Group September meeting
Evergreen Haiku Study Group October meeting
Evergreen Haiku Study Group November meeting
Evergreen Haiku Study Group December meeting
Poetry of Witness, Poetry of Resistance Series: I Am: Portrait Poetry Workshop and Reading
2021 Richard Benvenuto and Tom Samet High School Writing Competition Winners Reading
Poetry of Witness, Poetry of Resistance Series: WNL Presents avery r. young
Live-Lit-Fall-2021-Edition
Nothing Begins with Us: An Evening with Lansing's Poets Laureate Laura Apol and Dennis Hinrichsen
Stop Talking Over Me! Erasure as Poetic Dialogue with Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
Poetry of Witness, Poetry of Resistance Series: "Writing for Healing" with Laura Apol & "Writing Through Difficult Times" with Dennis Hinrichsen
Poetry of Witness, Poetry of Resistance Series: Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
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2020-2021
Welcome new director Lauren Russell
Poem of the Week: I Live in the Woods of my Words
The Beautiful Fortune of Only Speaking in Poems
Poem of the Week: "Ghosts and Fashion" by Elaine Equi
2020 Benvenuto/Samet High School Winners Announced
An Evening with Poet and Comic Writer Yona Harvey and Comic Artist and Writer Marcel Walker
2021 Capital Area Poetry Competition goes virtual
2020-2021 Academic Year Archives
Wednesday Night Live (WNL) / Fall Writing Festival: An Evening with Reginald Dwayne Betts
The Photograph is in My Hand: The Poetics of Timing in Comics
Felon: A Play; A Discourse
Center for Poetry Director on Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman
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Easy Dance of Suggestion and Sail of Inspiration: A Writing Workship
2020 Richard Benvenuto and Tom Samet High School Writing Competition Winners' Reading
Call for student interns open now
Alternate Histories, Disrupted Representations, and the Art of Creating from Colonial(ist) Archives
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An Evening with Marilyn Nelson
A Pandemic Gathering of RCAH Poets
Lauren Russell Wins 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award
Evergreen Haiku Study Group May meeting
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Mira Blankenship wins Balocating Undergraduate Prize for Poetry
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
RCAH-Verse: An Evening with Six RCAH Alumni Poets
RCAH-Verse: Two-in-One Poetry Workshop with RCAH Alumni Poets Jenny Crakes and Lia Greenwell
Craft Talk on the Sonnet with Marilyn Nelson
Live Lit 2021
2019-2020
2019-2020 Academic Year Archives
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Read a Poet, Write a Poem: Intro to Ghazal Form and Poets
Wednesday Night Live (WNL): Climbing PoeTree
Read a Poet, Write a Poem: Ghazal Workshop with Writing Exercises
Used Book Sale
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Poetry Chalking
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Fall Writing Series: Craft Talk with Tess Gallagher and Alice Derry
CANCELLED: Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Fall Writing Series: An Evening with Tess Gallagher and Alice Derry
Evergreen Haiku Study Group
Live Lit
Festival of Listening
Fall Writing Series: Craft Talk with M.L. Liebler
Ekphrastic Kentridge
Fall Writing Series: RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music Reading
Wheelbarrow Books at AWP, San Antonio
Fall Writing Series: Craft Talk with Fleda Brown
CANCELLED: Spring Poetry Festival: Craft Talk with Brian G. Gilmore
Fall Writing Series: An Evening with Fleda Brown
CANCELLED: Spring Poetry Festival: An Evening with Brian G. Gilmore
Benvenuto/Samet High School Writing Contest Winners' Reading
CANCELLED: Edible Book Contest
Poetry Walk with Marjorie Agosín
POSTPONED: Spring Poetry Festival: Craft Talk with Marilyn Nelson
POSTPONED: Spring Poetry Festival: An Evening with Marilyn Nelson
Live Lit: An Evening of Undergraduate Readings
Prior to 2019 Academic Year Archives
Prior to 2019 Academic Year Archives
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