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LA- Our Views: A contest for poetry
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 (16:00:00)
For many generations, Americans memorized and recited poetry in school, which was a great way for the broad masses of popular culture to connect with the power and promise of verse..
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Time to end UK art's dependency culture
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 29, 2013 (15:30:39)
But here’s the thing: pouring money into the arts has little impact on broader society. It does, however, have a negative impact on the arts themselves..
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UK- Theatre must be open to new ideas, possibilities and people
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 (11:16:10)
I have seen at first-hand spoken word and performance poetry grow in popularity and find a welcome home at both Truck and Fruit.
I have watched poets and performers on those two Hull stages who I'd never have come across without having the chance to see them live..
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The Rookie's Guide to H.P. Lovecraft, in 1500 Words or Less
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, April 03, 2013 (15:00:00)
Lovecraft was not exactly a paragon of manly virtue nor was he a particularly nice man. A self-avowed racist, many of his stories contain language you simply would not get past an editor today..
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Mythical Heavenly Meeting of Pablo Neruda and Hugo Chavez
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 02, 2013 (17:00:00)
As a thought exercise for a person struggling to reconcile the legacy of these two incredibly influential and determined individuals on the left, I perhaps can benefit from trying to imagine a conversation of the two great communicators beyond the pearly gates..
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MN -- Inaugural Listen & Learn Yields Plenty of Public Art Feedback
Posted by Tony on Saturday, March 09, 2013 (14:53:36)
Poetry News: ... from the last Art & Culture Blog ) One of the ideas I'd love to "steal" from St. Paul is their popular and successful poetry stamped in sidewalks. Edina residents would write short poems which are then pressed in to various sidewalks. Couldn't you ...
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Submission Letters: How Much Is Too Much?
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Tuesday, March 05, 2013 (08:00:00)
Poetry News: ... too, slogging their way through the same workaday life and searching for entertainment and enlightenment through poetry and fiction just like you. Being able to bridge those two lives through a couple of brief sentences can go a long way toward ...
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Clothes and Books, Ethics and Passion, Poetry and Prayer, High Standards and Low
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Saturday, February 23, 2013 (08:00:00)
Poetry News: The last couple weeks I had reason to shop for a new dress. I had an idea what I wanted: a wardrobe staple, nothing fancy but a little classy, neutral color, something that would last more than a year or two.
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India - Dear memory
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, February 17, 2013 (08:05:00)
Poetry News: ... for example, Tagore elocuting from the side in one of his dance-dramas, or poems recited in dim light during a poetry-jazz concert. The sight of an actor reading from a text defeats a basic tenet of theatre (or any oral tradition), that the ...
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On The 50th Anniversary Of Sylvia Plath's Death, A Look At Her Beginning
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 (08:35:00)
Poetry News: ... order. But one could hardly have predicted, from her taut yet unfocused first book, The Colossus , her only book of poetry published in her lifetime, that she would, or even could, become the poet we know, revere - and maybe even fear - as Sylvia ...
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Thinking about The Bell Jar, while eating pasta for one
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 (08:00:00)
Poetry News: ... Raw and the Cooked, a collection of essays by Jim Harrison , an American author who's written more than 30 works of poetry, fiction (including the novella Legends of the Fall) and nonfiction. He's the sort of writer who gets as emotional over ...
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Top 10 Literary Rogues
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, February 08, 2013 (16:35:00)
They were outspoken and polarizing, and lived fast and too often died young. They were the bad boys and girls of Western literature, the literary rogues..
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Glenn North on poetry's place in the civil rights struggle
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, February 04, 2013 (17:30:00)
Glenn North of Kansas City is poet-in-residence at the American Jazz Museum. North attended Lincoln University in Jefferson City, received a bachelor of arts from Rockhurst University and is pursuing a master of fine arts in creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City..
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The power of kitsch art
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 (02:40:32)
As two masterpieces of kitsch painting – Vladimir Tretchikoff's blue-faced Chinese Girl and Salvador Dali's equally bizarre portrait of Mona Bismarck – prepare to go under the hammer, let's pay homage to the aesthetic that thrives on mockery and critical contempt..
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Parenta s Notebook: Reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Holiday
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, January 27, 2013 (08:45:00)
Poetry News: ... and heal our emotional wounds because what we see is what we've allowed. Many artists have recorded songs and poetry that captured the spirit and energy youth bring to the planet. It's time we pay attention and create ways to turn this around. Your ...
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OR - And now, time for the Portland School of Poets
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, January 27, 2013 (08:00:00)
Poetry News: ... who then went on to win the World Series. The War in Iraq started and the Human Genome Project was completed. In poetry news, Paul Muldoon won the Pulitzer Prize, C.K. Williams the National Book Award and Susan Stewart the National Book Critics ...
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Poe house falls dark as Ravens soar
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, January 27, 2013 (08:00:00)
Poetry News: ... duplex, surrounded then by countryside and pastureland... it is here that Poe decided to turn his hand from writing poetry to fiction. Standing here, shivering here, a vagrant's mind is filled with famous verses -- Once upon a midnight dreary, while ...
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India - Festival of the Political Sissies
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, January 27, 2013 (08:00:00)
Poetry News: ... gave an annual platform to these voices which thrive and seek to perpetuate these divisions in whatever name: novel, poetry, drama, etc for whatever reason. BUTBtheres a red line which is Not to be Crossed: NO criticism of Islam. Which last year ...
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Martin-Flanagan-sport-dinks
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Saturday, January 26, 2013 (08:00:00)
Poetry News: ... Arthur carried with him during his years on the track were a couple of items of clothing, no underwear and a book of poetry. He loved the old Australian poets - Lawson, C. J. Dennis, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Banjo Paterson. Like others I've met who lack ...
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Pete McMartin: Why is it we never see any public poetry?
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, January 25, 2013 (08:00:00)
Poetry News: ... mouthing of The Star-Spangled Banner, in which actual lyrics may or may not have passed her lips. It was, as poetry goes, accessible. That is, you could understand it. It was about how the many parts of the United States make a single nation. It was ...
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Saints of the city
Posted by fogglethorpe on Saturday, January 19, 2013 (16:00:00)
The sanctuaries I frequent are the real bookstores where the proprietors read and talk about books with eloquence and experience. If you ask for Gertrude Stein, they know she’s not a retired store owner. My sanctuaries are places like Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company in Paris where the young can make discoveries as Hemingway did in reading Turgenev and the Russians for the first time..
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OH- Expecting a million-dollar harvest while only planting change
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 (03:08:32)
Luke Easter is a poet who writes about things that are very close to the heart of Salem-News.com. Another former U.S. Marine, Luke heals the world with an approach that reaches people on a different level, one known for centuries, yet too often forgotten in the one we live in..
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The films of 2012 (contributors H-L)90 international critics on their ...
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, January 07, 2013 (22:00:42)
House with a Turret
Eva Neymann, Ukraine
Neymann’s second adaptation of a story by Friedrich Görenstein is a sensitive recreation of a young boy’s journey in search of the house where he and his mother had lived. A child’s experience of war is movingly conveyed through Rimvydas Leipus’s striking black-and-white cinematography
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In My Library: Robert Battle
Posted by mamta on Sunday, December 02, 2012 (14:02:07)
My mother had a group called the Afro-Americans that did poetry and song relating to the black experience in this country, and that's how I was exposed to great poets like Nikki Giovanni. ...
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Jan Phillips: A Note to Virginia Woolf
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 (07:37:57)
I encountered this quote by Virginia Woolf the other day and decided to respond to it -- the present speaking to the past...
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