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PPLP is a volunteer organization which is supported by your generous donations. Now, you can easily donate online by clicking on the button below!



 
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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.

The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program presents a variety of events throughout the year;
readings, celebrations, publications. These events are announced in the Portsmouth Herald
and the WiRE Magazine.

           

Elizabeth Knies was named poet laureate
 of Portsmouth in 2007.
 

 'Surprised by Joy'
 All about Elizabeth Knies' laureate project

 Project photo gallery

We need your help
It’s that time of year again for the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program to embark on our annual appeal for donations. We thank all of our friends who have supported us in the past and hope you can support us again. Special thanks to those who tried to send us donations and had them returned due to a snafu at the post office. We appreciate your patience! The correct addresses to send donations is

Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program
PO Box 1196
Portsmouth, NH 03802

 

Andrew Periale, who was named poet laureate
of Rochester, N.H., in April 2008, reads his work
during the open mic portion of the Poetry Hoot
in March 2007. Poetry Hoots are held the first
Wednesday of the month from September to June
at Cafe Espresso in Portsmouth.

 

 

The Poetry Hoot
The Poetry Hoot 2007-2008 season continues Wednesday, June 4 at Cafe Espresso in Portsmouth. Keep writing poems & check the calendar page for other Hoot nights in the region.

 

Read Poems!  "Poems from the Hoot" -  Where we review PPLP 'Poetry Hoot' readers: 
Jack Jamison and other local poets.

 

 

Poetry calendar

 

6/1/08 - 2 p.m. - Mimi White will celebrate the launching of her book "The Last Island: Poems by Mimi White" at RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth. In praise of "The Last Island": In these deft poems Mimi White traces with great sensitivity a landscape of intimacy. It is a place that is hazardous and rewarding, brimming with feeling that has been tried and retired.  One reads poetry to deepen one's sense of what it is to be alive- these poems do that with admirable concision.
-Baron Wormser

 
 

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