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News, Events, Articles and more- Page 2
Chinese musician seeks enduring India-China ties
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (15:00:00)
She started liking the poetry of India's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore while in school, and now China's noted dulcimer player Liu Yuening has made the first Chinese transcription of Tagore's songs with the aim of creating an enduring basis for India-China ties..
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UK- James Runcie: 'I want a cross between the Open University and a party'
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (19:51:56)
Seven months ago, James Runcie found himself inextricably double-booked: as the outgoing artistic director of the Bath Literature Festival, he was expected to pack his swansong with fireworks, while as the incoming director of the London Literature Festival, which opens tonight, he was under pressure to begin with a bang..
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Poet Jennifer Barber
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (16:00:00)
Poetry News: May 18, 2013 - Jennifer Barber is an author, a teacher and is founding and current editor of the literary journal Salamander and starts off the morning with her poems at Wake Up and Smell the Poetry.
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Poetry Breaks the Bank, Doesn't Bring the Book Backlash
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (16:00:00)
Poetry News: Much publicity has surrounded the record prices fetched for poetry manuscripts at an auction held by Bonhams in London as part of The Roy Davids Collection of Poetry, Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets.
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A Night of Poetry at the Turkish Embassy with Sidney Wade
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (16:00:00)
Poet Lore and the Embassy of Turkey present a reading by Sidney Wade on Tuesday, June 11, 7 PM, at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC..
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UK- Mum's a word to spark a poem
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (16:00:00)
A PERFORMANCE poet has revealed she is looking forward to “getting the butterflies back” when she takes to the stage in Prestwich.
Sarah L Dixon has earned a reputation among critics as one of the most gripping poets in the North West, and she will be performing at the Shangri La! cabaret show next week..
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IL- Art, poetry coming to PHS May 24 and 25
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (15:20:00)
The show will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 24 and May 25, in the media center at Pittsfield High School. This will be art instructor Susan Dodd’s last year due to retirement. There have been a succession of successful art shows in Dodd’s career and her last one is shaping up to be equally as successful..
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Author Elliott Holt says: 'Go West, Young Woman'
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (15:00:00)
In Elliott Holt's beautifully subtle debut novel You Are One of Them, the protagonist, an American in her 20s, moves to Moscow shortly after the Cold War. After a few months, she returns to the U.S. a changed woman..
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Eighty-one Year Old Publishes Literary Novel - Hero's Welcome
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (15:00:00)
Rosalind Foley can't remember ever NOT writing something, poems, short stories, later expanding to novels and screenplays. She strives for clean, succinct expression, convincing dialoque and vivid description..
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Tony Nominee Ken Ludwig to Host Talk and Book-Signing
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (15:00:00)
World-renowned playwright and Tony Award nominee Ken Ludwig (Crazy for You, Lend Me a Tenor) will be hosting an interactive discussion on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, followed by a book-signing of his new book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Saturday, June 8 at 12pm..
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Karen Rigby: Poet Interview
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (14:31:13)
Poetry News: Rigby is the author of Chinoiserie , winner of the 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, and of the chapbooks Savage Machinery and Festival Bone .
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Karen Rigby: Poet Interview
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (14:31:13)
Poetry News: Rigby is the author of Chinoiserie , winner of the 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, and of the chapbooks Savage Machinery and Festival Bone .
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Zinaida Vengerova.
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (14:30:52)
Zinaida Afanasievna Vengerova was born in 1867 in Helsinki. She attended the Bestuzhev Courses in St. Petersburg and studied French literature at the Sorbonne; she also took courses in Vienna, England, and Italy, and met many of the leading lights of European literature. One of her first publications was the article "Poety-simvolisty vo Frantsii"..
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Holocaust prisoners' book to return to Poland from Sonoma County
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (14:25:28)
Eleanor Hensel’s late husband returned home from World War II with a remarkable, handmade gift of gratitude — a book of poems and haunting, color drawings by Polish prisoners of one of Adolf Hitler’s notorious concentration camps..
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In poetry and faith, life matters
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (14:22:39)
Poetry News: Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and until recently the editor of Poetry magazine, has written what may become a spiritual classic.
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For 2013 Daily Press poet laureate, love sparked the desire to write
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (14:22:01)
Poetry News: The winner of the 2013 Daily Press poetry contest, Weber lives in Hampton and works at Newport News Shipbuilding where he teaches radiation safety.
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Poetry finally joining e-book revolution
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (14:20:58)
Poetry News: Over the past two years, publishers have been steadily filling one of the largest gaps in the e-book catalogue - poetry.
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New York Shakespeare Exchange Launches Interactive Sonnet Project Today
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (14:20:02)
New York Shakespeare Exchange (Ross Williams, Artistic Director) has announced the launch of the year-long interactive SONNET PROJECT today, May 20, with an invitation only launch event happening from 7 - 9 PM at The Museum of the Moving Image..
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Song by James Joyce | Poets.org
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (04:47:02)
Poetry News: Born in Dublin, James Joyce--well-known for his novels Portrait of the Artist as Young Man and Ulysses --also published numerous books of poetry.
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Poem by Andrew Taylor
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (04:46:30)
Poetry News: I am acting editor of The Wonder Book of Poetry while Kit Kelen is away and I have been rounding up outstanding poems from friends.
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MN- Wescott Library Hosting Poetry Open Mic and Contest
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (04:45:43)
Poet Katrina Vandenbarg will discuss the "Alphabet Not Unlike the World: Poems" and her other works at an adult poetry contest event at the Wescott Library..
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UK- Poetry professor seeks beauty among rubbish
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (04:42:51)
The project will conclude with a collection of 12 poems and creative writing sessions at local schools through a project based around the Seamer Carr depot in Scarborough and funded by an Arts Council award..
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SOA English instructor publishes major reference book on American poetry
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (04:41:07)
Poetry News: John Cusatis, will be published this month by Gale, as part of the internationally esteemed reference collection Dictionary of Literary Biography.
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ArtBeat: Salinas hosts competition to name youth poet laureate
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 20, 2013 (04:40:34)
Poetry News: The city of Salinas and the city's Youth Commission hosts a poetry competition at 6p.m. June 1 to find the city's first Youth Poet Laureate.
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