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Understanding Poetry

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:29:42 GMT

Poetry News: Poetry is a metrical composition of feeling or imaginative description. Poems are an act of discovery, a personal venture into experiences or to explore the imagination.Link!

The Habit of Art: Alan Bennett's debt to Homer

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:31:14 GMT

Poetry News: ... the joy, hardship, loneliness, comradeship, bitterness and solid, habitual drive to make work, whether that's music, poetry, or drama: the habit of art. The Habit of Art: Alan Bennett's debt to Homer This article was published on guardian.co.uk at ...Link!

Texas:Of Wolves and Verses

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:32:58 GMT

Poetry News: ... between different languages and cultures without sacrificing depth and complexity. He has published more than 30 poetry books in Slovenia and is one of the most recognized poets of Central Europe . Blake and Salamun speak at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the ...Link!

Reading Tonight: Big Day for Fantasy Nerds

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:35:57 GMT

Poetry News: There's a poetry slam tonight, and a gardening book, a book about climate change, and several other events, too.Link!

All Dressed Up for a Big Book Party

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:28:26 GMT

The awards, which celebrate excellence in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature, are presented at a glitzy ceremony where publishers, editors, agents, past finalists and other authors sit at tables that are hosted by sponsors who have spent $12,000 for the privilege. ...Link!

Who discovered the Metrical Structure of Somali Poetry: Arale or Gaariye? By Dr.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:31:08 GMT

Arale and Gariye are great icons in Somali poetry. Each, in his way has deservedly built a reputation for research, creativity and academic excellence. Both of them taught at institutions of higher learning, but Arale authored many books while Gariye didn’t. So, it is with great anguish that I am writing this article to render judgment on their respective claims to the discovery of the scansion of Somali poetry. ...Link!

Go Your Own Way: Norah Jones and The Swell Season Recover From Broken Hearts

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:32:40 GMT

I ask her about “Back to Manhattan,” a song that feels like the moment you know a relationship is really over. There’s a line where she says she’s returning to the city, where she has “a prince who is waiting.” Given that the last song on The Fall is about finding true love with a dog, I assume the prince is also a canine....Link!

Getting to Know Emerging UK Literary Star Simon Pomery

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:35:06 GMT

Held at London's Red Lion, the show featured work from several emerging artists including 27-year-old poet Simon Pomery. Pomery's poems have been steadily gaining attention in the UK: he's won prizes from Leeds and Cambridge Universities and has had work published in Poetry London, P.N. Review, and the Times Literary Supplement....Link!

Kirk honors Byrd on Kennedy's behalf

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:39:46 GMT

And one poem that they turned to over the years was entitled A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Senator Byrd, of course, knows this poem by heart, and so I need not read it all today. Instead, let me just recite the last few stanzas to the Senate and for the record as these words sum up the force that is Senator Byrd....Link!

Introducing the Miss G Train Semi-Finalists

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:41:37 GMT

Marleah is a Gowanus resident who comes to Greenpoint for haircuts. Colleen S.- Colleen is a young journalism student who starts her poem with, "Hi Brooklyn, or anyone listening." America's listening don't you worry....Link!

Tweeting Tish

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:45:29 GMT

According to HarperCollins Canada, the story "tells of a poet’s search for well-priced galoshes after a plow leaves behind a sopping dyke [sic] of blackened snow that blocks him from his own front door. What he finds is something he needs much more than footwear." ...Link!

Reading Bharatchandra -- Literary Language and the Figuration of Modernity in Be

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:51:39 GMT

Reading against the grain of conventional literary critical approaches, it should be possible to acknowledge the enabling element in certain aspects of both the English and Bengali literary conventions in the formulation of a modern literature, and here I shall place the common inheritance of the various languages as they came together to formulate the idea of the literary in the nineteenth century side by side. ...Link!

a Mike was real golda - poet pays tribute

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:54:26 GMT

A memorial concert was held for Mike last Sunday, organised by Stafford Jazz Society and featuring the two jazz bands with which Mike was most associated - the Swing Parade and The Old Fashioned Love Band....Link!

The Young Poets Society: Meet Britain's rising stars of verse

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:57:00 GMT

Poetry News: As the nation celebrates Poetry Day this week, Andrew Johnson and Kate Youde report on the art form's astonishing rise in popularity getty images 'Poetry is more face to face and more like story telling.Link!

Local blogger Jason Preu publishes poetry collection

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:59:11 GMT

Poetry News: Local blogger Jason Preu has published swallow , a new poetry collection described as "a collection of thirty-two poems that feature surreal humor and imaginative speculations.Link!