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Film - 'The Happy Poet' Returns to Austin at Stateside Independent
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, May 06, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... also down-to-earth customer Agnes ( Liz Fisher ), whom Bill has a crush on, and who may seriously want to read his poetry. The humor in The Happy Poet is goofy and awkward. The scene where Bill reads his poem "Chasm" aloud had me alternately ...
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MA- O'Hare is spell-binding in 'An Iliad'
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (16:09:07)
“An Iliad,’’ crafted by O’Hare and Lisa Peterson from Robert Fagles’s translation of Homer’s epic poem, and presented by ArtsEmerson, is a starkly powerful experience that leaves you with not just a sense of the horror and absurdity of war, but also — and this part makes the heart sink — its inevitability..
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UK -- Festival review
Posted by Tony on Monday, April 29, 2013 (09:30:45)
Poetry News: However if audience numbers were waning, there was no decline in the quality of poetry on offer judging by this well presented session by John Gallas and Emily Wills.
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Silent Days by Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi - An awesome collection of poems
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, April 26, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... has published a myriad of new poets, and an increasingly large number of collections of verse. The significance of Poetry has not declined, and the 21st century seems to be the Golden Era of English Poetry. The name of Cyberwit is known to readers ...
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NM- 'The Menu' serves up poetry, spoons
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 (14:47:48)
But this opening night, UNM’s Experimental Theatre was packed with muckety-mucks in such an array of fancy dress that it seemed more like the Adobe Theater or Albuquerque Little Theatre — two playhouses with a rabid if not older and more conservative fan base..
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A Short Review of 'Poem'
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 (04:38:02)
Poem, a 2004 movie by Ralf Schmerberg that I watched for the first time last night on DVD, consists of dramatized recitations of 19 German poems from Goethe onward
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'Tales That Witness Madness' is not a great horror anthology
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 22, 2013 (17:00:00)
Tales That Witness Madness" is a British horror anthology that isn't really that great. Let's look at the different stories that were in this anthology because each is so different and some are better than others while the others are just terrible..
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Two Book Reviews: "2312" and "The Yellow Birds"
Posted by mamta on Sunday, April 21, 2013 (13:58:32)
Poetry News: My first impression of "2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson is that the author could use a good editor, or needs to take up short-form poetry to sharpen his descriptive skills.
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Dann Gire 'To the Wonder' is visual, if not prosaic, poetry
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, April 18, 2013 (15:04:08)
Reel Life review: "To the Wonder"
Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder" will go down in the history books as the final movie officially reviewed by the late Chicago critic Roger Ebert. Well, better that than "Evil Dead," for sure..
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Book Review: A Treasury of Poems, Compiled by Sarah Anne Stuart
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 (17:26:26)
Poetry News: A Treasury of Poems: A Collection of the World's Most Famous and Familiar Verse compiled by Sarah Anne Stuart is a compendium of 440 poems by the greats; such as, Thoreau, Longfellow, Whitman, Frost and Yates.
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App Review: Poems by Heart, a Penguin Classics app
Posted by Tony on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 (12:42:57)
Poetry News: ... should offer more than just a few poems in each one. Ultimately, I made the decision not to buy. I do love classical poetry, but the game part was dull and the pricing scheme for unlocking content was, in my opinion, ridiculous. If there had been a ...
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Book review: Bear Witness by Mandy Haggith
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: AT LAST month's StAnza poetry fes tival in St Andrews, in an event on eco-poetry, a questioner asked the panel why poetry rather than the novel seemed to be the preferred art form for writing about the natural world.
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Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 02, 2013 (14:09:21)
Born in 1955, as a child Xu had performed daily calligraphic exercises under the instruction of his father, a historian at Beijing University, mastering both brush and language, and becoming rooted in this traditional Chinese symbiosis of painting, calligraphy and poetry..
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Book Review: River Of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay
Posted by mamta on Sunday, March 31, 2013 (03:26:02)
Shan is equally ill advised in her ambitions as she writes poetry and even sets it to music. While she would not be considered a threat like Daiyan, her abilities have made her a figure of oddity ...
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Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Saturday, March 30, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... were weird enough and artsy enough. James Broughton came to flower in the North Beach San Francisco scene of jazz and poetry and unapproved sexuality. He and his mother didn't get along, and according to the Jungians of the day, that was a sure ...
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Review of All Through the Night
Posted by mamta on Monday, March 25, 2013 (04:06:39)
Poetry News: The online poetry magazine Pemmican has published a review, by poet John Bradley, of my book All Through the Night: New and Selected Poems .
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The Book of My Lives' by Aleksandar Hemon
Posted by mamta on Sunday, March 24, 2013 (13:54:38)
Impassioned of the New Criticism, he introduced the students to poetry and novels, getting them to deeply mine the texts themselves, as well as teaching them to write essays. And then Koljevic began ...
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Reviewed: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
Posted by mamta on Sunday, March 24, 2013 (13:50:10)
Poetry News: ... It's a different context but also a different writer we've switched from the remote jargon of the analyst to the poetry of the artist. The first essay was written in 2007, the second for this collection six years later: his writerly consciousness ...
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Review: Leonard Cohen unleashes odyssey of his work at the Straz
Posted by mamta on Sunday, March 24, 2013 (13:48:16)
Hallelujah was but one high of many during a nearly 3-1/2-hour odyssey of gospel blues and devastating poetry, delivered with deep love and dry wit. By the end, the near-capacity crowd of 2,411 felt as if they'd just been read a novel or ...
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MA: Stage review - Emergency' delves deep with a chorus of characters
Posted by Tony on Saturday, March 23, 2013 (09:59:56)
Poetry News: "Emergency" is a fascinating performance hybrid that combines elements of storytelling, singing, poetry, preaching, and stand-up comedy with a charming theatricality.
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The Happy Poet
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 (15:00:00)
THE HAPPY POET is an all-organic, mostly vegetarian comedy about Bill, a struggling poet who pours his heart, soul, and last few dollars into starting a healthy food stand, surprising friends and customers with his dry wit and offbeat passion..
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of March 18, 2013
Posted by Tony on Saturday, March 16, 2013 (16:38:03)
Poetry News: ... focuses on defining and enlightening moments in the author's life. A dynamic, beautiful book. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, Second Edition by Paul Hoover (Norton) - The range in this anthology is stunning, from Charles Olsen's ...
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SXSW Review: euphonia
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 (16:00:00)
The unnamed teenage protagonist of euphonia listens often, to the point of distraction and obsession. Writer/director Danny Madden's film follows the teen as he tires of the dull noise of suburbia around him and, armed with a handheld sound recorder, searches for better sounds..
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A Poet's Corner: Review of 'Running at Night'
Posted by Tony on Sunday, March 10, 2013 (17:59:42)
Poetry News: ... when, it might be argued, they are needed most? Looking at Ned Randle's collection of one quarter century's worth of poetry, we catch more than glimpses - we ride along an avenue bustling with all of us - and a storyteller who sees us in the manner ...
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