http://gotpoetry.com/ News for Poets. Place to write. en-us Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:30:43 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly GotPoetry.com News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://gotpoetry.com/images/autoheader/logo-slogan.gif http://gotpoetry.com/ http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13328.html On Thursday, July 24, 2008 The 39th Annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers convenes this summer with workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Non Fiction and Screenwriting. ...Link! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:30:43 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13327.html In The Savage Detectives the poet tom-cats make a meal of the white doves and there are plenty of banana peels, some of which take the form of incredible “jokes” like the one Bolaño’s friend Rodrigo Fresán refers to in the passage quoted above. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:28:44 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13326.html Why I Came West is his attempt to redefine himself as a writer and family man relative to his all-consuming crusade to gain a “permanent wilderness designation” for areas of the Yaak and protect them from road building and uncontrolled logging....Link! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:26:10 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13325.html Jack Blankenship, a poet and Eagle-Gazettecorrespondent, penned his first-published poem while hiding underneath his parents' bed. His payment was a spanking and $5. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:22 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13324.html The play Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins represents a chance for the award-winning poet and memoirist (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City) to “work a muscle [he] hadn’t before.” He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Houston....Link! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:19:33 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13323.html Tony Stewart will drive the No. 14 Chevrolet in his debut next season with his own Sprint Cup Series team, Stewart-Haas Racing, and will share sponsorship from Office Depot and Old Spice ... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:17:31 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13322.html The longlist for the second Man Asian literary prize has been announced, and features an unexpectedly strong showing from Filipino writers. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:16:11 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13321.html Mike McGee features @ the July 28th Youth Poetry Slam THE VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM http://vancouverpoetryhouse.com/ http://www.myspace.com/vancouverpoetryslam CONTINUES @ CAF� DEUX SOLEILS: 2096 COMMERCIAL DRIVE ( 5TH AND COMMERCIAL ) EVERY MONDAY OF THE MONTH Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:16:03 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13320.html nternationally recognized poet Penn Kemp of London will be celebrating her 64th birthday on Aug. 4 from the stage of The McManus Studio Theatre as part of this year’s Fringe Festival. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:13:19 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13319.html arbara and Lorraine won't speak publicly about their encounter with Cohen, but the Montreal native has often talked about his muses, slightly altering the details each time. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:10:38 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13318.html George Torres is a poet, cultural activist and founder of cultural online magazine www.SofritoForYourSoul.com. Having been born & raised between Brooklyn, NY & Bayamon, Puerto Rico, he was reared with traditional Puerto Rican values and incorporated that with what he learned in the streets of East New York. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:07:21 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13317.html ...Link! A common way in literature to express a recipe for happiness is by means of a macarism. A macarism (from Greek μακαρισμός) is just a fancy word for beatitude. It consists of an adjective meaning happy, a relative or indefinite pronoun, and whatever action or state is supposed to lead to happiness. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:09:29 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13316.html Have some live culture, kiddie-style this week. Check out the all-kid cast in Stagecrafters' take on 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' at the Baldwin Theatre, singer, poet and storyteller Bill Harley at For Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum or downtown Birmingham's Summer in the City performance.Link! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:08:00 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13315.html Readers who are attracted by Pamuk's political stance may like to explore the poetry of the late Nazim Hikmet Link! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:07:04 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13314.html "He came to Edmonton a private person and left famous," says Kim Solez president of the Cohennights Arts Society, and lead organizer of the Leonard Cohen International Festival, which begins today and runs until July 28. "He stayed here for a stretch in late 1966, invited as a guest of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts and hung out for five weeks." ...Link! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:19:04 GMT