Arts Beat: For Rhodes professor, pressure wins a poetry prize
Caki Wilkinson uses pressure and constraint to write her poems, and she just took home a national award for it. But when she first came to Memphis, it was to play basketball.
Topic: poetry
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October 2026
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August 2026
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Arts Beat: After two miscarriages, Emily Skaja was drowning. So she wrote a book of poems.
When she started writing “Black Lake,” award-winning poet and University of Memphis professor Emily Skaja expected to document her healing journey. “But that didn’t happen.”
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March 2026
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Embracing Memphis: Why an acclaimed poet shares his passion for writing in his adopted home
Award-winning poet and U of M professor Marcus Wicker has been in Memphis for nearly a decade. Here’s how he developed a passion for poetry, and why he’s sharing it with the community.
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February 2025
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Floral murals will welcome spring flowers at Germantown garden
As visitors return to Oaklawn Garden in Germantown with warmer weather and blossoming flowers in spring, they’ll notice a vibrant addition to the Cloyes house that sits on the grounds.
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July 2023
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University of Memphis professor selected for Harvard fellowship
Fewer than 4% of people that applied received Harvard University’s 2023-2024 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. One of those who did is a U of M professor.
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June 2023
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At 74, dyslexic wordsmith heads to national poetry slam
William Hill of Southaven will represent Mississippi in a competition sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies Association.
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May 2023
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Poetry contest honors Tom Lee’s heroism 98 years later
The recipients of the second annual poetry and spoken word competition continued the theme set by last year’s winner of a broader interpretation of Tom Lee’s heroism.
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May 2022
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New generation of poets find familiar in legacy of Tom Lee
The story of a man who rescued 32 people from the Mississippi River 100 years ago inspires three high school seniors who won the first Tom Lee Poetry and Spoken Word Contest.
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