Calling all poets! If you love to write poetry and would like to reach a wider audience, please read this announcement from The ruth Weiss Foundation: Poetry provides what youth require: a path to the genuine, the original, the heretical, the shocking, the sensitive, the one-of-a-kind human individual. They have things to say that have never been saying before in ways that have never been seen before. The Beat poets like ruth Weiss (lower case) invaded the consciousness of a generation by speaking in voices that resonated with the young. Today there lurks a new battalion of teenagers who demand our attention. They want to take poetry in new directions to suit a new world. We should listen. The ruth Weiss Foundation is thrilled to announce that the 2022 Poetry Grant Award Submissions are now OPEN. This year the Foundation will be offering $1,000 in youth poetry prizes that seek out works of verbal and stylistic originality. For more information, visit www.ruthweissfoundation.org.