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UK -- City names children's poet laureate
Posted by Tony on Friday, May 17, 2013 (18:46:34)
Poetry News: ... Daily Echo editor Ian Murray. The 42-year-old from Shirley is a professional poet who spends his time delivering poetry-based workshops to organisations across the county as well as writing for magazines, brochures and websites. He has also written ...
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Canada- Nanaimo seeking nominations for its first poet laureate
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, May 16, 2013 (15:20:12)
Poetry News: The laureate is intended to serve as the people's poet to help make a positive impact on the literary culture on Nanaimo and share the importance poetry has on community life.
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TN- McCallie Pays Tribute To Late Poet Wil Mills '88
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (02:24:48)
While paying a tribute to the late Wil Mills ’88, the Upper School English department spent the Monday chapel time not only sharing three of Mr. Mills’ poems but also giving insight to the world of poetry and creative writing..
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UK- Grantham poet Zoe draws on her life experiences
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (02:22:04)
Zoe Williamson, of Tennyson Avenue, is passion about poetry and has seen two books published - A Poet’s Collection: Love Chronicles and Selected Heart Poems: Along the Mystic.
A mother-of four, she said: “I love writing poetry. In writing, it’s not just my experiences but those I pick up from other people, and life, and from travels and so on..
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VA- Maya Angelou to Appear at Chrysler Hall
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (02:06:07)
Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Maya Angelou is a renowned poet, novelist, filmmaker and civil rights activist. Multiple Grammy award winner, Angelou's passion for music, dance, performance and poetry can be felt through her works..
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Saginaw's celebration schedule for poet Theodore Roethke's birthday
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 13, 2013 (14:19:34)
SAGINAW, MI – The Friends of Theodore Roethke are in the party spirit again, pulling together a weekend of readings, workshops and remembrances, topped off with birthday cake and ice cream in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Saginaw poet’s 105th birthday..
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Bringing the Truth to Neruda's Death
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 13, 2013 (14:08:11)
The recent court-ordered exhumation of his remains may throw light on the real cause of death of Pablo Neruda, a Chilean writer whom Gabriel Garcia Marquez called “the greatest poet of the 20th century — in any language.”
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Bringing the Truth to Neruda's Death
Posted by Tony on Monday, May 13, 2013 (13:03:29)
Poetry News: ... Although he claimed that he wasn't a political writer, Neruda was an artist who knew how to blend politics and poetry in his life. He was born Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto in 1904 and died in 1973. He started writing poetry at 10, and when ...
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'Lost' WH Auden Journal Sheds Light On Pivotal Time For Poet
Posted by Tony on Monday, May 13, 2013 (13:00:42)
Poetry News: A journal written by WH Auden that for decades was believed lost has been unearthed, shedding new light on a critical year in the life of one of the giants of 20th century poetry.
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Literary Lorenzo Snow #10: The Temple of God at Nauvoo
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 12, 2013 (15:17:30)
William Wines Phelps, the author of this poem was also one of the first and most prolific of Mormon poets, although unlike his contemporaries Parley P. Pratt, Eliza R. Snow and John Lyon, Phelps never published a volume of his own poetry..
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Literary DCGD #19: Spirit Memories
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 12, 2013 (15:14:53)
The author of this poem, Joseph Townsend, was one of the most widely published poets of late 19th century Mormonism. Today Townsend is best known as the author of 10 of the hymns in our hymnal, including “Choose the Right,” “The Iron Rod,” “Let Us Oft Speak Kind Words To Each Other,” and “Hope of Israel.”
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Every word a poem, unbound
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 12, 2013 (13:40:47)
Korean poet Ko Un discusses his work, his life, and the importance of writing in his mother tongue..
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WA- Port Angeles widow remembers late writer's legacy
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 12, 2013 (13:25:53)
May 25 would have been Carver's 75th birthday. And Gallagher, along with Peninsula College, has spent the past year planning to celebrate with a festival of readings, performances, movie screenings, an art exhibition and finally a kind of walkabout.
The two-week festival will conclude with “A Rouse for Ray,” a traveling reading across Port Angeles, to sites significant in his writings.
The sojourn will end at Ocean View Cemetery for his “Late Fragment.”
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Kei Miller takes writers to school - Notes diminishing of dub poetry's power
Posted by fogglethorpe on Saturday, May 11, 2013 (16:00:00)
The dreadlocked lecturer, Kei Miller (born 1978), has been doing 'something different' for decades. You'd never know from the reading of his academic and literary successes that in high school he often got Fs in his subjects, that he dropped out of his English programme at the UWI because of poor grades and that he has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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NEB - James Knox
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Saturday, May 11, 2013 (07:40:00)
Poetry News: ... 2,000 or more (his son Matt will never have to buy another golf ball!) He had a very creative flair - he dabbled in poetry under the pen name of "Leslie James" - to our knowledge he was never published and he was a self-taught artist, working with ...
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Tagore's legacy: Seeking out the man behind the mask
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, May 09, 2013 (15:00:00)
To reconsider the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) on his 152nd birth anniversary is to confront a maze of contradictions. What, for instance, inspired a school dropout without a college degree to establish an international university?
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Houston's first poet laureate weighs in on the Astrodome,...
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, May 09, 2013 (15:00:00)
Your new poetry overlord is the Houston-born and raised novelist, blogger, and yes, poet Gwendolyn Zepeda. CultureMap was recently granted an audience with our new poet laureate, so we can now answer some of the most urgent poetry questions Houstonians everywhere are asking..
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This Month's Poets at the Library Event Brings Elaine Terranova to Princeton
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (13:05:17)
Besides being featured in some very high profile literary publications such as The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, and the Prairie Schooner, Ms. Terranova's poems have been posted on buses and in subways throughout her hometown..
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200 years since Wordsworth moved to Rydal Mount
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (12:59:06)
A TINY Lake District community gathered for a tea party to celebrate the 200th anniversary of William Wordsworth moving to live there.
Peter and Marian Elkington, the curators of Rydal Mount and Gardens, invited Rydal villagers to tea and scones at the place which once inspired arguably England’s most famous poet..
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The Song of Nadine: Spoken Word Album and New Novella Released, from...
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... Seattle author and spoken word artist Nadine C. Keels recently released her ninth book, Love Unfeigned, and her first poetry album, Hope. Lyricized., within five weeks of each other. The album was released on April 1 in celebration of National ...
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The I and the we
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (16:00:00)
Everyone who has heard of the poet William Carlos Williams will know his poem "The Red Wheelbarrow". It is so well known that I don't think I will violate copyright to quote it here in its brief entirety..
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On the trail of Dylan Thomas
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (14:15:51)
Wandering the streets of New York this week I began to see that Dylan Thomas was a village boy at heart. And by this I mean Greenwich Village boy.
Using the information available to download from the Welsh Government’s website, I set out on a self-guided walking tour of places in the Village which are connected to Dylan..
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Poet makes the past a destination
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, May 06, 2013 (07:15:00)
Poetry News: After a year of conversation about poets and poetry, The Gift poetry series Producer Stanzi Vaubel recorded Rachel Jamison Webster reading from her book, September , and decided to produce this piece not as a conversation but as a direct drop into the poems.
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Poet's visual expression
Posted by Tony on Sunday, May 05, 2013 (12:20:26)
Poetry News: ... through suffering and tears. Varma was deeply disturbed by the dismal conditions in which women lived and through her poetry expressed how they could empower themselves. This was the theme of a seminar that Roy Halder, who teaches Hindi at Loreto ...
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