http://gotpoetry.com/ News for Poets. Place to write. en-us Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:09:13 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=13205.html NYC REGIONALS !!! This Tuesday is a slam we've been waiting for for a loooong time! It's the New York City Regionals! When all the NYC Slam Teams -- NYC-Urbana! louderARTS! Nuyorican! PLUS NJ's Loser Slam -- battle each other for bragging rights! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:09:13 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13206.html A British artist and children's author has drowned in a mountain waterfall while on holiday in the Philippines. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:10:11 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13207.html Eleanor Kimberley, 97, of Sandisfield died Sunday, July 20, 2008, at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:12:29 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13208.html Hilary and John Mitchell's landmark volume on the history of Maori in the top of the south, and Richmond poet Jessica Le Bas's debut book were among the winners in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, announced in Wellington Monday night. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:13:32 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13209.html Poets hold before us mirrors of our nature or behavior as human beings, but the reflection is distorted intentionally, like a carnival's house of mirrors. The truth is easier to take in, sometimes, when it is not so bald-faced. As Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell the truth but tell it slant." Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:15:19 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13210.html Rachel Randolph's love of writing started as a young child. She remembers sitting in the sixth grade at Speight Middle School wondering how in the world she was going to complete a poetry writing project, at the same time listening to the teacher encourage her students to let their lights shine and just try it....Link! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:17:14 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13211.html ...Link!The group of five teenagers representing Houston in the Youth Speaks Brave New Voices Poetry Slam Festival last week in Washington, D.C., was one of 45 teams competing. Coach Marcell Murphy said only the top five teams were ranked. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:23:13 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13212.html The Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance- AEMS, a nonprofit group, will host teachers from throughout the United States and the world for a one-day learning excursion on Thursday, July 24, for teachers to develop arts integrated lesson plans. The primary site will be the Chesapeake Bay Field Lab at St. George Island. The groups will enjoy a local lunch at Evans Restaurant. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:26:27 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13213.html Trained as a psychiatrist, he at one time was a physician for a soccer team. He also published a book of poetry before becoming active in politics. A man puts up US posters in Sarajevo of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic announcing ...Link! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:29:48 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13214.html Poetry News: Last nights Main Street Rag poetry reading - held at the Writers Place featured Amy Davis and Missi Rasmussen followed by an open mic.Link! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:31:54 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13215.html Five teens from Hawai'i won the top prize at an international poetry slam competition this weekend in Washington, D.C. The members of Youth Speaks Hawai'i competed against more than 40 teams at the 11th annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival, which was held July 15 through 19 in Washington, D.C. ...Link! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:16:57 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13216.html A wiry, pale, sharp-featured veteran of experimental theater, Willem Dafoe soared to stardom and earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor playing the Christ-like Sgt. Elias in the Academy Award-winning "Platoon" (1986). Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:21:23 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13217.html ...Link!Karadzic, a former psychiatrist and an amateur poet known for a wavy mane of silver hair, is accused of organizing the 1995 massacre of about 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica when forces under his leadership overran a U.N. safe area and then summarily executed men and boys who had sought refuge there. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:27:23 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13218.html excerpts from KUOW.org 94.9 fm : ... becomes a kind of mirror, reflecting our own lives and choices back to us. Judith is the author of 10 collections of poetry. Her most recent is HEAT LIGHTNING , New and Selected Poems, 19862006, published by Silverfish Review Press in 2006. Recorded ...Link! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=13219.html There really is a problem with criticism today, but to think of it as simply the vanishing of the authoritative critics of yore is to miss the point. The reason the views of, say, TS Eliot on poetry were once taken so seriously (apart from the fact that when he wrote books such as The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ...Link! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT