A Bridge to Japan: A Poetry Broadside Contest Presented by the Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate Program We are pleased to offer a digital poetry broadside contest. Final judging will be performed by poet and translator Patrick Donnelly. Winning entries will be awarded...
Poet Laureate’s Corner
Accepting Nominations!
The PPLP Board is now accepting nominations for our next Poet Laureate for 2019-2021! • Nominees for 2019 – 20 21 should live in Portsmouth, Dover, Durham, Eliot, Greenland, Kittery, Madbury, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Rye, or Stratham...
Poets in the Park
Join us at Prescott Park Arts Festival this summer for Poets in the Park: Women Reading Women. We're excited about this lineup, and we hope you are, too!
Induction Ceremony for Mike Nelson
https://youtu.be/6YQ6BQJIG0Y
Portsmouth’s 11th Poet Laureate: Mike Nelson
Mike Nelson of Portsmouth, NH, is the 11th Portsmouth Poet Laureate. Nelson was named at a “passing of the quill” ceremony during the April 3 meeting of the Portsmouth City Council at City Hall in Portsmouth. Nelson, who grew up in New Hampshire, cut his poetry teeth...
Poet Laureate Nominations Are Now Closed
Thank you to all who submitted nominations for consideration. Join us at the Portsmouth City Council meeting Monday, April 3 at 7 pm for the announcement of our next Poet Laureate!
Call for nominations!
Questions about nominating guidelines? Please see our information sheet.