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SLAM! An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry
Posted by mamta on Saturday, October 24, 2009 (04:32:17)
SLAM! An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry
Saturday, October 24
9:00 pm | Hillyer Art Space, 9 Hillyer Court NW
Tickets: $10, Discounted Members/Seniors/Under 25 $8
Purchase tickets at washingtondcjcc.org/litfest or at the door
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Way with words - " Charles Penfold, 11, Bethany French, seven, and Callum Sims,
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:57:54)
Poetry News: THERE must be something in the water at a Canvey school following unprecedented success in a county-wide poetry competition.
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Poets wring out rhymes
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:52:42)
Poetry News: Cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell, who also served as host for the event, performs his poetry Friday at Heber City's 15th annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair.
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Counselor gets poetic at night
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:51:58)
Maybe they'll question his priorities when they find out he spends weekends performing poetry under the stage name "Se7en" at bars and cafes across the country. Come Monday morning, Howard always returns to his ...
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117 more music events today
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:48:30)
Pieces of You. She then penned a collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor, which became a New... More >> There aren't many places inside the Houston city limits where you can ...
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Morning of Poetry
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:44:25)
Poetry News: Lithgow Public Library, 45 Winthrop St., Augusta. Susan Parks, Sally Joy and Gaylord Weston, members of the Winthrop-based Pondtown Poets, will read selections from their poetry.
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Diyala poetry festival shows signs of peace in Iraq
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (07:43:24)
Poetry News: Basim al-Dafaie, an Iraqi poet, was optimistic when he saw the restoration of art and poetry festival in his province of Diyala after four years of turbulence and violence.
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A Model of Order : Concrete Poetry
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (06:55:32)
Poetry News: ... Dom Sylvester HouA dard Robert Lax Edwin Morgan Mary Ellen Solt and many others. Jointly curated by the Scottish Poetry Library and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
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Scandal Sheet: Chris Brown's confused
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (06:48:10)
I don't know who came up with the idea to get actors to read from other actors' memoirs/poetry collection, but it's always a good time. The latest: Kristen Wiig reads Suzanne Somers' poetry. Awesome!...
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Then Again, Perhaps Shea d Be Offended by that a oeCowrin, Tima rousa Business
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (06:46:04)
The esteemed and sleek-whiskered Mouse Chairwoman is quoting from “Ballad Upon a Wedding” by Sir John Suckling, one of the English “Cavalier poets,” those dashing, witty, and sensitive 17th-century Carpe Diem fellows who came out in support of King Charles I against Parliament and the Puritans....
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A New Web Guide from The Library of Congress: Poetry of September 11
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:27:02)
Poetry News: This guide was compiled by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist at LC. Poetry of September 11 is a guide to print and online poetry about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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The Poetry Show
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:24:42)
Poetry News: Last month I listened with special attention to Dona Stein's excellent "The Poetry Show" on KFRC-FM in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Short short fiction explained: Lydia Davis at Portland Arts & Lectures
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:23:06)
Davis is the author of eight books, most recently "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis," which contains almost 200 stories. Many of them are extremely short -- a sentence or two, a paragraph, a page -- and Davis' talk was about how she became a writer of short short fiction....
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Quieting the child within
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:21:00)
Poetry News: Some nights I enjoy putting on my reading glasses, slumping into a big overstuffed chair and plopping open my old 1885 edition of "The Library of Religious Poetry." It makes me feel like a character from Dickens.
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Pixies, Peforming Doolittle, Hollywood Palladium, November 4, 2009
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:14:51)
After a pixelated projection of Bunuel and Dali's Un chien andalou , famously source material for the poetry of Debaser, they take the stage, three of the four of them clad in slimming all black, David the lone hold out in a white ...
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Stroll downtown for art and music - and it's all free
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:13:45)
Jazz will be offered at the Good Life Cafe and Wine Cellar, 800 Cumberland St., from 7 to 9 p.m. Well-known local musician Lee Moyer will play the keyboards, featuring low-volume jazz standards with vocals and muted trumpet. There will be no cover charge. A menu and wine list will be available. ...
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Prof. Wanda Fries wins 'James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry'
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:09:56)
Poetry News: Prof. Wanda Fries wins 'James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry' Somerset Community College teacher wins award with her poem, "Annunciation." Another of her works, "Black Dog," was semi-finalist in the competition
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Pulitzer-Prize winning poet to read at museum event
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:09:24)
Poetry News: Claudia Emerson, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her work "Late Wife," will read from her works Nov.
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Topeka woman, 92, still a poet
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:08:35)
Poetry News: Topekan Peg Penry has just published her fifth book of poetry, this one a collection of religious verse she has written through the years.
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How to Write a Great Novel
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (05:06:30)
Behind the scenes, many of these writers say they struggle with the daily work of writing, clocking thousands of solitary hours staring at blank pages and computer screens. Most agree on common hurdles: procrastination, writer's block, the terror of failure that looms over a new project and the attention-sucking power of the Internet...
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How to Appreciate Confessional Poetry
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (04:58:17)
Poetry News: Confessional poetry gives you a very personal peek into the writer's life, and sometimes such details are unflattering to the writer and/or uncomfortable for the reader.
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Talmud vs. Anna Akhmatova
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (04:56:44)
Neither midrash digs into the psychology of the motivation, emotions that drove Idit to turn. Fortunately, two Eastern European poetry divas, Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska and iconic Russian-Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova dig further into it. ...
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Poetry & discovery: Veronica Patterson to read from her new book,...
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (04:55:11)
Poetry News: Loveland poet Veronica Patterson keeps a writer's notebook with her, or at least a scrap of paper, in case she is inspired.
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Poetry please
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 07, 2009 (04:54:56)
Poetry News: As readers of this blog know, poetry's something of an obsession, so you can imagine my excitement about the Spectator's second poetry reading on 25 November .
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