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Poetry Friday - 17
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (13:00:15)
Link!It's a lovely summer's day here - bright sunshine, but not too hot yet. I'm enjoying re-reading Garth Nix's Mister Monday as I work towards reading Superior Saturday (which I bought last week - oh the joy of having a little spare cash!), and I'm in a generally good mood (ie. I'm not thinking about what's going to happen in tomorrow's Doctor Who season finale!). Therefore, I thought I'd share this poem by Wordsworth, as it seems to suit my mood:
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Readings and Signings
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (12:55:52)
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Link!Join Water Street Bookstore for an open mike poetry night. The evening will begin with readings by two poets, Pam Bourgeois and Jason Tandon. Pam Bourgeois is a retired English teacher who taught at Exeter High School and PEA Summer School. Jason Tandon is the author of two collections of poetry, "Wee Hour Martyrdom" and "Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt," which won the 2006 St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press (due out this summer).
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Unsung Heroes: With the Internet, the bedroom is the stage, and the world is the
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (12:51:19)
Like a lot of aspiring artists in Blount County and around the world, Duncan has discovered the power of Myspace and other social networking sites as an outlet for her art. With an acoustic guitar, a voice that hovers somewhere between Tori Amos and Chan Marshall of Cat Power and the soul of a poet, she’s harnessed the Internet as a sort of digital diary, a window into the thoughts and emotions that swirl like fast-moving storm clouds across her young mind.
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New events added to Pride roster
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (12:47:25)
“Roses are red, violets are blue…” If that's what you think poetry is, then perhaps the shoutOut! With Pride is not for you.Event organizer and host Stacie Boschma envisions the Saturday evening poetry slam to be more similar to battle rap, or a contest of lyricism.
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Local short stories, poems on tap at HPR
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (12:44:54)
Poetry News: 'Aloha Shorts,' a radio show featuring Stephanie Kong, Mathias Maas and Janice Terukina reading locally written short stories and poetry, will be recorded at 7 p.m. Sunday at Hawai'i Public Radio's Atherton ...
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Hayek hits a bulls-eye
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (11:07:57)
Consumers have come to expect good-looking design from this king of the big-box chains. Lately that look has taken on an especially vivid and playful character, and a number of those products carry Sami Hayek's name.
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Fires update
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (11:03:43)
Poetry News: ... the fire burned more than 64,000 acres and was reported as 3 percent contained. Organizers for the West Coast Poetry Slam scheduled for July 12-13 are trying to assemble back-up plans for the 200 people who were expected to descend on the Henry ...
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Weather cooperates despite fears for second Sagebrush Serenade fundraiser
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (10:58:47)
The second annual event is a fund raiser for the Smith Valley FFA Alumni, which raises funds for the students in the Smith Valley School FFA Chapter to pay for things such as trips to national and state competitions and conventions.
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The "L" or "l" word
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (10:55:18)
For those of you who skipped your classical studies class on the day they taught this, the reason lesbians are called lesbians in the first place is because Lesbos' most prominent resident was Sappho, who lived some 2,600 years ago and was known as “the tenth muse” for writing some of the hottest erotic poetry of all time.
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Workshop gives students tools to use power of words
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (10:52:20)
Clark and more than a dozen other students in an Olympia High School classroom, were taking part in a leadership workshop offered by the Institute for Community Leadership this week. The Kent-based institute, which holds workshops nationwide, also had sessions in Shelton and Yelm this week.
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Lord Tweedsmuir: Novelist and son of John Buchan who inherited his...
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (10:43:28)
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Link! If all John Buchan's children had it hard, his second son, William, had it hardest. Endowed with his father's literary talent, he yet could not hope to match John Buchan in his other occupations of strategy, high policy, business, sport, action.
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Review: 'Apologies Forthcoming', Xujun Eberlein
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (10:39:39)
Apologies Forthcoming shines a revealing light on some of the millions of people whose lives were changed forever by the ten years that turned China upside down and inside out.
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Kilmarnock poet embarks on novel new career
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (10:35:49)
A WOMAN who only started writing after the death of her husband three years ago is now aiming to have her first novel published.
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Dog poo haiku
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (10:28:41)
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Link!hose are some of the pet phrases poets of all ages drew upon as they pounced like puppies at the chance to put into verse their dismay over people who don’t pick up after their dogs in public places.
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Mr Snoop
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (07:40:34)
Possessions reveal personality. Lee Randall subjects her stuff to analysis by a house-trained psychologist
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They mess you up
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (07:37:56)
Link! This is a terrible and moving memoir, both raw and artful. The “muddle and sadness and fight of it all” is refracted through the careful telling, the choice of detail, the remembered voices and the cunning weave of past with present. As Ms Blackburn writes, her mother is dying, and in a series of forward flashes the reader watches the two of them, in the nick of time, bury the past and find love. And the daughter? It had been a close shave, but what saved her in the end came from her father at his best: a love of writing, language, learning poetry, telling stories, singing songs—a soundtrack of her own, louder than breaking glass.
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Review: WHY I CAME WEST, Rick Bass
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (07:32:44)
In Why I Came West. Bass confronts head-on the violence against the land and the threat of violence against those who seek to protect the land. I am not suggesting a parallel of menace between Saro-Wiwa's martyrdom and the death threats received by Bass, but I am suggesting a parallel of purpose behind the hostility.
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NC-Warren Wilson MFA program readings
Posted by loisseau on Friday, July 04, 2008 (07:30:00)
Yes, Warren Wilson's low-residency MFA program is in session, and while these wordsmiths of fiction, non-fiction and poetry sharpen their syntax, the literary-loving public can also benefit. How? By checking out any of the free readings and lectures ...
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Letters
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (07:08:06)
In two of her recent Poet's Choice columns, Mary Karr makes assertions that cannot go unchallenged. In the June 8 issue of Book World, she states that "William Matthews beat brain cancer" before submitting to a heart attack in 1997.
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Impassioned Images: German Expressionist Prints at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art C
Posted by mamta on Friday, July 04, 2008 (07:05:18)
Prints became a favored medium among German Expressionists, who found that powerful Utopian or critical messages could be relayed to numerous audiences through individual sheets, print portfolios, posters, manifestos, or literary journals (the latter primarily based in Berlin).
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