Building Community Through Poetry
The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program is dedicated to building community through poetry by appointing and supporting an outstanding local poet as Poet Laureate for the city, sponsoring events that feature area poets and authors from outside the New Hampshire Seacoast, and encouraging a love of poetry among people of all ages.
Established in 1997 by local arts organizers and writers, the program brings people together to celebrate the written word and the talents of local and visiting artists.
February 1st Hoot Featured Readers
Megan Grumbling writes poetry, criticism and essays, and dramatic works, and serves as an editor, teacher, and writing mentor. Her collection Booker's Point, awarded the Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry, is forthcoming from the University of North Texas Press in 2016....
Rice Pudding Poetry Series
Rice Pudding Poetry Series to Feature Richard Foerster in a Program of Maine Poets Richard Foerster will be featured in the upcoming Rice Pudding Poetry Series on Thursday evening, January 26, in a reading that will celebrate the work of Maine poets. Foerster will...
Call for nominations!
Questions about nominating guidelines? Please see our information sheet.
Youth Poetry Reading at 3s Artspace January 17, 2017
Youth Hoot January 4th, 2017
Students from several area schools will join us as our January Featured Readers. One of the PPLP's Board's long term goals is to encourage poetry writing and performance by young people. They're our poetic future. What better way than to provide a venue? If you've...
December 7th Poetry Hoot Featured Readers: Desiree Alvarez and Deborah Gorlin
Desirée Alvarez is a painter and poet whose work speaks to a mythic human interaction with the natural world. Her work has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Willard L. Metcalf Award, three Artist Fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a...
Holiday Hoot Book Sale?
Our October Hoot experiment with a poetry book sale table seemed to go well. PPLP is contemplating having a holiday book sale table at our December Hoot to which all poets with published works for sale would be welcome to sell their wares. Books like "One of Us is...
Mark DeCarteret’s visit to Portsmouth High School as the Esther Buffler Poet in Residence
The following report and poems were written as part of Mark DeCarteret's visit to Portsmouth High School as the Esther Buffler Poet in Residence. I start them off with another lie. That poetry is little more than a list. And isn’t much different from what I’ve heard...
