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From a caged teen in a basement in India to literary fame
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 (16:00:00)
Salma is now the most famous female poet in southern India. She is also a politician.
After she was born, Salma’s family gave her away..
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Roxy Todd: The search for W.Va.s first poet laureate
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 (15:00:00)
In his poems, Karl Dewey Myers wrote devotedly about Tucker County, of its forests transformed by railroads and logging trains. Seated in his chair, each day he looked forward to feeling the pounding momentum of the passing trains as they climbed up the steep mountains toward the sky..
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OR- Floyd Skloot discovers the necessity of music for insight
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 (12:50:25)
When Skloot writes, "I may never know / what virus this is, what brilliant cell / rewrites the entire score / my body has followed for life, throwing / its symphony into chaos," he is acknowledging the clarity that poetry can provide about living the music of both sensibility and sense..
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Wanted: a new Young Poet Laureate for London
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, June 14, 2013 (16:00:00)
Once chosen, he or she will be the voice of young Londoners, writing poems which reflect on the ever changing capital. Young people aged 18-25 from across London are invited to apply to become one of six young poets who will take part in events and workshops over the summer..
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Ukrainian life in academic paintings by Kornylo Ustyianovych
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, June 14, 2013 (15:50:00)
Kornylo Ustyianovych, son of a Galician priest, Ukrainian Russophile writer and public figure, one of the founders and leaders of the “Enlightenment” society Mykola Ustyianovych, was born on September 22, 1839 in the village of Vovche near Lviv..
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Epic: Allen Ginsberg gets his first look at the Internet on December 16, 1996
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, June 14, 2013 (15:00:00)
"Following our conversation, I showed Allen the World Wide Web for the first time. I'd been telling him about the self-publishing samizdat aspect of the Web, knowing that he'd made a point of donating his work to small, labor-of-love zines even after he was the best known poet in America..
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The Ginsberg-Trilling Feud
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, June 14, 2013 (15:00:00)
Beginning in the years just after World War II and lasting for decades afterward, there was an odd, unlikely, quietly seething literary and personal feud between Allen Ginsberg and the least Beat of all the writers of that era, Diana Trilling..
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Natasha Trethewey will serve as US poet laureate for a second year
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... as Poet Laureate of Mississippi , her home state, during the same year. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner for her poetry collection "Native Guard," which was released in 2006. In discussing Trethewey's reappointment, Billington praised her openness and ...
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Anna Akhmatova: A charismatic poet who expressed the despair of a generation
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... life. It was her nature to fall in love easily, but she did not find love in her numerous lovers; she found it in poetry, as she relates in "My Half Century," a book of her prose and autobiographical sketches, translated by Ronald Meyer. St. ...
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Literary DCGD #23: The Transformation
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 (15:00:00)
This is another of the large corpus of poems by Mormonism’s best known poet, Eliza R. Snow, who was married to both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and was the second General President of the Relief Society..
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The Collected Poems of W.S. Merwin
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 (15:00:00)
Poetry News: W. S. Merwin is a poet of paradoxes. In a 60-year career, he has made astonishing poetry of the separation from nature one experiences even in its midst.
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US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey is reappointed
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 (15:00:00)
In her second term, she will collaborate with PBS senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown and the NewsHour's poetry series on reports about poetry and society from around the country. Her next term begins in September..
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Letter: A poet's imagination and a snooping government
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 (06:29:33)
The poetry of Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) was primarily associated with a surreal, absurdist style, often laced with a satirical tone and rarely reality-based..
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Ireland- Ode to joy as Plath makes a return for candidates
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, June 10, 2013 (15:00:00)
While not much consolation to those disappointed by her unexpected absence last year, Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (Asti) subject representative Michael Doherty said what was better was that it was a nice question on her work..
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RD Armstrong Fundraiser & 3 poems by Raindog
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, June 10, 2013 (14:16:59)
RD Armstrong, publisher of Lummox Press and better know by his peers as "Raindog" is a stand up guy in the Los Angeles Poetry Scene. He has been a supporter of the artform for quite some time and his contributions to poetry do not and should not go by without our gratitude..
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Not Yet my Soul by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, June 07, 2013 (15:00:00)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Not Yet my Soul by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2013. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and..
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OR- Attend an evening of poetry honoring William Stafford
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, June 07, 2013 (15:00:00)
The Friends of William Stafford and the Lake Oswego Public Library will present an evening of poetry honoring William Stafford on June 18 at 7 p.m. Wright has published nine books of poetry, four volumes of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali and a collection of essays..
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San Mateo County Poet Laureate Nominations Open
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, June 07, 2013 (07:03:42)
..Stage in the Fine Arts Galleria within the San Mateo County Fair at 12:30 p.m. The Poet Laureate's role is to elevate poetry among San Mateo County residents and celebrate the literary arts. Nomination deadline is July 31, 2013 at 5 p.m..
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Obituary: Audrey Baird's poetry painted stormy skies in children's minds
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, June 06, 2013 (14:26:17)
Baird made images blossom in a child's mind of the stormy world all around. Baird, a St. Paul native and author of poetry for young readers whose Once Upon a Time magazine encouraged others to pursue their passion for creating children's literature..
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Discovering poetry: John Donne's religious conversion
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, June 06, 2013 (14:04:40)
Poetry News: angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go - All whom the flood did, and fire shall, overthrow, All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes Shall behold God..
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Poet could have done a lot verse
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, June 02, 2013 (13:39:05)
Poetry News: Natalie Brookes checks out her poem in the latest edition of the National Poetry Anthology.
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Augusta's First Poet
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, June 02, 2013 (13:38:48)
Richard Henry Wilde was Irish by birth. His family, parents and six surviving children, migrated from Dublin to Baltimore the year before the Irish Rebellion of 1798 to engage in business..
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Walt Whitman's birthday
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, June 02, 2013 (04:38:46)
Whitman did not utilize meters and rhyme patterns that were indicative of his time. He had a particular interest in long cadences and in poem styles from the Bible. What differentiated him from his contemporaries marked a transition in art between transcendentalism and realism..
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UK- Vivienne Westwood searches for young poets to perform at Keats House
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 31, 2013 (15:35:00)
But now Vivienne Westwood is hoping to inspire the next generation of radical young poets to raise awareness of climate change and the environment – in a project culminating in a performance for celebrities and VIPs at Keats House in Hampstead..
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Poet Nikky Finney offers farewell gifts to Carnegie Center
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 31, 2013 (15:00:00)
Nikky Finney has always been drawn to buildings and neighborhoods with a sense of history and community. When she joined the University of Kentucky's English faculty in 1993, she got to know Lexington by walking and biking through the city's historic districts..
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