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World Events is the section created to help teachers, students, and the general public learn more about events around the world through readings, events, lesson plans, links, timelines, parodies and news articles related to the performance poetry world.
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California Poet Laureate Launches Bullying-Awareness Project
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (06:02:39)
Poetry News: ... program, graduate fellows will introduce the i-Promise Joanna project with a brief video of Herrera and a classroom poetry activity that invites students to talk about the impact of bullying in their lives and elicits a promise to seek peaceful ...
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Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (16:00:00)
This week's poem comes from a collection of sonnets, songs, pastorals, elegies and epigrams by the newly-rediscovered Elizabethan poet, Robert Sidney. It's untitled, but numbered "Sonnet 30", and begins, aptly for a re-emergent poet, "Absence, I cannot say thou hid'st my light …
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UK- Punk poet to headline arts festival
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (15:00:00)
People queued into the street to buy tickets for punk poet John Cooper Clarke and folk musician June Tabor as Hebden Bridge Festival announced its 20th programme..
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Kansas girl Gwendolyn Brooks broke ground as black poet
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (15:00:00)
There wasn’t much Gwendolyn Brooks didn’t write about.
She would say, “I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”
She wrote of war, racism, drug use and love. Anything became the subject of scrutiny from her pen.
She was born on June 7, 1917, on her grandmother’s kitchen table in Topeka..
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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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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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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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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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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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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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'Voices of Burien' Open Mic will be Friday, May 31 at Community Center
Posted by mamta on Monday, May 20, 2013 (00:41:31)
"We are celebrating the Youth and their Voice!!!" reads an announcement. "Please come share your Poetry, Singing, Rap, Dancing and any talent you have! Or just come support Local teens and their talent. Free to the Public with a ...
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Kooser: 'American Life in Poetry'
Posted by mamta on Monday, May 20, 2013 (00:40:15)
Poetry News: If we haven't done it ourselves, we've known people who have, it seems: taken a vacation mostly to photograph a vacation, not really looking at what's there, but seeing everything through the viewfinder with the idea of looking at it when they get home.
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Book of poems 'Re-routed' is a familiar, yet fresh look at our animal nature
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 19, 2013 (13:43:30)
Poet Francesca Marguerite Maximé gallantly revisits the world of word play, delivering her next masterwork of accessible and unguarded poems..
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Book News: Viral Poetry, Birthday Bridge
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 19, 2013 (13:41:19)
The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum will reopen in October, after being closed for over a year due to lack of funding..
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Coast Union High School showed spine for Poetry Month
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 19, 2013 (13:25:06)
Poetry News: The Coast Union High School library celebrated National Poetry Month by creating spine label poetry.
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