PW Covington
PW Covington's writing is raw, powerful, and carries the voice of his hard-lived curriculum vitae. His poetry and prose is
undeniably of Beat lineage, and his words have the power to carry the full weight of desperate yet inspirational experience.
Incarceration, Poverty, War, Heartbreak, Homelessness, Isolation, these are the roots of Covington's work, but his voice is neither bitter nor caustic. It is, in his own way,
hopeful.
Gnashing Teeth Publishing
presents
malepoet.
KKFI 90.1 Kansas City Community Radio
Arts Magazine with Michael Hogge
PW discusses the malepoet. collection, "beat" poetry, creativity and expression, and more with Michael Hogge, host of KKFI's "Arts Magazine".
Includes readings and discussion of three poems from the new book.
INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
LGBTQ Fiction Finalist 2019
Congratulations to North Beach and Other Stories for earning FINALIST status in the
2019 International Book Awards!
Texas A&M University
Corpus Christi
"Read some of his beat-heart work here on the spotlight, and order his
gorgeous lyric embrace of the road, with his original photos along Historic Route 66 between The Motor Hotels
of Central Avenue."
Havana, Cuba- Covington Invited to Read
2017 Havana International Poetry Festival
In July of 2017, PW was invited to join a delegation of US poets and writers in Havana, Cuba for the 21st Festival de Poesia Internacional.
For 8 days, writers from all over The Americas worked together to present and discuss their poetry at venues across Cuba's capital city.
Special focus was invested on issues such as Cuba's rapidly changing social and economic landscape, climate change and its present and future effects
on the Americas, and the free flow of ideas and creativity between artists of different mediums and cultures.
Other poets invited from the USA included former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, and activist Odilia Galvan-Rodriguez. Invitees forged
bonds of friendship and creativity with each other and with Cuban audiences.
Many events were sponsored and hosted by UNEAC (Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba).
The writer moved to Northern New Mexico in 2017, and remains involved in a variety of progressive and social causes, including homelessness outreach and prevention and veteran's
advocacy. He has worked with disaster relief teams in major disaster zones across the continent. He traveled to Standing Rock as a Water Protector and to Havana Cuba as an invited guest at the
Havana International Poetry Festival. Covington remains allied with those fighting for justice and dignity for native, indigenous, and less privileged groups, including those that identify as
LGBTQ+, across the nation.
Covington also frequently donates his time and talents to benefits and other activities organized to support immigrants, human rights and social justice causes along the US/Mexico
border.
PW Covington is the hope inside of all of us on our worst day.
He is the quiet voice, screaming inside our soul that refuses to accept defeat, even when we must lose.
He is the things we can only find after we have lost everything.