http://gotpoetry.com/ News for Poets. Place to write. en-us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:58:53 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=38195.html Featured will be San Francisco author/poet Joyce Jenkins, publisher of Poetry Flash Newsletter, will be accompanied by Clay St. James. Detroit's own world traveling Master Blues Performer Howard Glazer will be there as well as Violet the Blues Singing Diva along with an Open Jam/Mic with musicians, poets and performing artists. Food by Deli Dunn Rite also will be available....Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:58:53 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38194.html In the Traditional News: With voting steadfastly along party lines, right up until 3 minutes before midnight on June 30th, California failed to pass a budget on Tuesday night. This means, unless there is some sort of miraculous breakthrough, California Treasurer John Chiang will begin issues IOUs Thursday.Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:55:34 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38193.html “Photography” literally means “writing with light.” As a poet and photographer, words and images are fluid – not quite interchangeable, but closely related, with arresting visual images giving rise to poems and poems coloring how I view the world through my camera lens...Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:49:48 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38192.html Why the Lord included this intimate ballad in the Bible, was a question that challenged me. It includes no references in it to spiritual disciplines (prayer, fasting, almsgiving, Scripture study, evangelization, etc.), God is never mentioned directly in the entire text, and its sexual content is impossible to ignore. In fact the whole book appears to be about sex, and at times the ancient language and comparisons are enough to make one laugh out loud....Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:44:26 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38191.html In place of thousands of pages of information about poetry, education projects and events, there were offers to counter my erectile dysfunction and hair loss. They were not very poetic and nor was my response. It had a lot less characters than a haiku and, as a past participle, summed up where we were....Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:38:57 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38190.html There is a splendour about Nicole's best shots like prose or poetry from the pen of John Arlott. How that long-time Camborne stalwart George Pidwell would have relished her cricket – George reckoned you could recognise a cricketer as he or she came down the pavilion steps. ...Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:34:27 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38189.html Frost wrote numerous references to the rain, the changing seasons, the snow, ice, storms, and damp meadows he might have traveled more often than not while spending nearly a decade living at his Derry farm. ...Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:29:53 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38188.html Robert Frank is one of the great living masters of photography, and his seminal book The Americans captured a culture on the brink of social upheaval. The exhibition traces the artist's process of creating this once-controversial suite of photographs, which grew out of his beat-inflected road trips in 1955 and 1956....Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:24:49 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38187.html Poetry News: Tuscaloosa residents will have a chance to feel the rhythm of poetry as Hank Lazer, UA associate provost, reads from his latest book, "Portions," at Harrison Galleries tonight.Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:22:14 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38186.html July 2, 1971 Award-winning poet Evelyn Lau, the youngest poet ever to receive a Governor General's award nomination, was born at Vancouver. Her first work was published when she was in her early teens.Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:21:23 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38185.html I have, these past few days, been annoyed that I have been unable to make anything good in the way of poems. Then, last night, I realized that the problem had to do with my wanting to make poems.Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:17:35 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38184.html Poetry provides a release. Writing poetry became an outlet for Canipe when she was diagnosed with MS. She has been writing poetry for most of her life and says that writing allows her to take her mind off of the pain that she feels on a daily basis.Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:14:30 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38183.html I feel itchy thinking about it too, wondering if books will still exist in, oh, five years. But as I debated on a poetry listserv with people who mostly find e-Books offputting and a less than satisfactory reading experience, it came to me that it's ...Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:11:40 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38182.html In the 35 years since it started, the Mananan Festival has featured no fewer than three Poet Laureates – John Betjeman, Andrew Motion and now the freshly crowned Carol Ann Duffy, the first woman to be appointed in the 341 year history of the post. ...Link! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:07:36 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=38181.html Created as part of Ledbury Poetry Festival, which runs from today (Thursday) until July 12, spokesman Simon Steven said they’d hoped the poem, written in blue water-based paint, could stay until the end of events. ...Link! 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