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Cultural Daily’s Pushcart Nominees 2021

Cultural Daily is proud to announce its Pushcart Nominees for 2021. This year, says Poetry Editor Alexis Rhone Fancher, there were so many outstanding poems to choose from, picking the nominees was hard. But in the end, the following poems published in Cultural Daily were nominated: Gustavo Hernandez Sept. 2, 2021 “Third Shift” Grace Bauer …

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Review: Rich Ferguson’s Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates

When I first read Rich Ferguson’s Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates, I thought he was only cataloguing what makes life chaotic and difficult. However, it became clear fairly quickly that while he is often discussing the toxic, the painful, and the frightening, where he is best is when he is providing ways through the …

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RICH FERGUSON, LOS ANGELES SPOKEN-WORD POET, NAMED CALIFORNIA’S BEAT POET LAUREATE

The National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. (NBPF), a not-for-profit organization founded in 2016, has selected Rich Ferguson to serve as the State of California Beat Poet Laureate for a two-year term from Sept. 2020 to Sept. 2022. In May 2020 the NBPF board members selected Ferguson based on his peers’ recommendations for his literary accomplishments …

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3rd Annual Jack Grapes Poetry Prize: Winners & Finalists

The 2015 Cultural Weekly Open Submission period, featuring the Jack Grapes’ Poetry Prize, has ended. The winners and finalists decided. All the poems were read blind, ie: the poet’s name was removed from the poems and substituted with a number. All poems were read in their entirety. This year, almost 500 poems were submitted. From …

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