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News in Poetry
World Events is the section created to help teachers, students, and the general public learn more about events around the world through readings, events, lesson plans, links, timelines, parodies and news articles related to the performance poetry world.
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STD (Stuff to Do) November 20 - November 26
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:49:42)
Member of the U of C’s Committee on Social Thought, poet, and novelist Adam Zajagewski will be reading a selection of his poetry at the Renaissance Society. In 2004, he won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, which is often considered a precursor to the Nobel prize in literary circles. (Renaissance Society, 2 p.m., free)...
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Franco family's 'Metamorphosis: Junior Year'
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:29:41)
The result is "Metamorphosis: Junior Year," a novel released in October that combines prose with poetry, short chapters with big themes and mythology with modern-day teenage angst. It is a collaboration between mother and sons: Betsy wrote the text; Tom, 29, did the illustrations; and James, 31, and Dave, 24, recorded the audio version of the book....
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City, police honored by county first
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:20:58)
Walker presented a selection of her poetry and plaques to a gathered crowd of city and Jacksonville Police Department officials at the police station. ...
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Veteran broadcaster dies aged 94
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:09:21)
He was an author and poet, producing several books including the definitive guide to Wimbledon 1877-1977 and The Ballad of Worple Road, a book of poetry with a forward by Peter Ustinov.
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Irvine to host five day Burns extravaganza
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (16:07:04)
"It was in Eglinton Woods that Burns realised his poetry could be good enough for the rest of the world to read. "And it was a chance meeting with Captain Brown at Irvine harbour that ...
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Cowboy poets gather for weekend performances
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (14:02:17)
Carnal performed before an audience for the first time last year at Grand Junction's Cowboy Poetry Gathering at the Museum of Western Colorado's Whitman Educational Center. He's back for this year's gathering, today and Saturday at the same location....
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BookJam Bash Features 16-year-old Poet Laureate and Award-winning Authors
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (13:57:38)
The special event will feature student poetry performances and discussion highlighting proven techniques for using engaging novels in young adult literature to elevate ...
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Poem Present: Discussion on Poetics with Mary Ruefle
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (12:14:17)
Poetry News: Mary Ruefle is the author of several volumes of poetry, most recently A Little White Shadow , an art book of "erasures", a variation on found poetry; Tristimania , Among the Musk Ox People ; Apparition Hill ; Cold Pluto ; Post Meridian ; Cold Pluto ; The Adamant , winner of the 1988 Iowa Poetry Prize; Life Without Speaking ; and Memling's Veil .
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NPR programs to feature Holland poet Jack Ridl
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (12:12:35)
Poetry News: National Public Radio has discovered Holland area poet Jack Ridl , whose latest anthology "The Losing Season" in September cracked The Poetry Foundation's bestseller list.
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Sufi singer Abida Parveen, live in Chennai
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (10:35:09)
Born in Larkhana, Sindh, in a family with close links to Sufi shrines, she found herself drawn to Sufi music poetry as soon as she could sing and her first lessons came from her father Ustad Ghulam Haider, continuing with the Sham Chorasia ...
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Products
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (07:33:05)
Poetry News: Technology companies are awfully fond of comparing their work to poetry and art .
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Christmas Writing Contest deadline is near
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (07:32:15)
The deadline is fast approaching for the annual Valley Leader Christmas Writing Contest. This coming Thursday, Nov. 26 at 4 p.m. is the deadline for writers to submit their poems and stories to be eligible to win cash prizes and/or have their creations published as part of the Valley Leader's special Christmas edition. ...
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MFA program ranked 42nd in the country
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (07:26:19)
The Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program here at UNH was recently ranked 42nd in Poets and Writers magazine with its nonfiction program in seventh place, a rare accomplishment for a program that is just shy of four years old....
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Racial slurs interrupt poetry reading
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (07:22:21)
Poetry News: Approximately 85 people gathered on Lanier County property Sunday night to hear words of poetry.
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POETRY : Poetry fest celebrates 10th anniversary
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:54:49)
Poetry News: WHAT: 2009 Taipei Poetry Festival WHEN: Today to Nov. 29 WHERE: Main venues include Zhongshan Hall , Eslite Xinyi Store and Taipei Artist Village ON THE NET: poetry.culture.gov.tw Big-name authors, aspiring young bards and members of the general public will all feel at home at this year s Taipei Poetry Festival , which is celebrating its 10th ...
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Poetry book 15 years in the writing...
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:49:50)
Poetry News: A book of poems about Northamptonshire collected by a local wandering poet has finally gone on sale...15 years after he started writing it.
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Author Linda Hasselstrom to give reading, book signing tonight at Zandbroz
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:44:09)
Poetry News: ... 'Land Circle: Writings Collected from the Land,' 'Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work' and the award-winning poetry collection 'Bitter Creek Junction.'
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A festival to revive poetic ties
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:43:58)
Poetry News: KOLKATA: An evening of poetry that began with the lilting tunes from an Irish poet's flute and ended in the resonant vocals of a Baul singer here on Wednesday flagged off a 10-day festival that attempts to revive a culture of exchange between Irish and Indian poets.
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Mxolisi Nyezwa: Winner of the Thomas Pringle National Award for Poetry, South Af
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:41:20)
Poetry News: The Thomas Pringle National Award for Poetry is given by the English Academy, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Poets celebrate the spoken word at open mic tonight
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:40:56)
Poetry News: At 7:30 tonight, the Nevada County Poetry Series will celebrate the spoken word at its season ending "Giant Open-mic." Many of the featured and open-mic readers who have contributed to the Series this year will be reading.
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Dannie Abse Recipient Of 2009 Wilfred Owen Poetry Award
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:40:09)
Poetry News: The Wilfred Owen Association presents a biennial Poetry Award to honour a poet for a sustained body of work that includes memorable war poems.
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Best poets' society
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:39:59)
Poetry News: "I don't like the idea of characterizing my own poetry. I like sitting in the middle of it and thinking of it as being incomprehensibly vast and various." Professor Albert Moritz speaks slowly, searching with determination for the perfect combination of words in conversation.
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A lyrical tribute
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:38:49)
Ludhianvi's songs gave flutter to the dreams and desires of an entire generation and here they were put in context with his life's story. The play drew in a motley crowd, while the stream of silver-haired was heard re-living Ludhianvi masterpieces like “Jaane woh kaise log they jinke pyar ko pyar mila”, youngsters too found their connect with the master lyricist....
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Little Known Riches: Latin American History, Politics, Fiction, and Poetry
Posted by mamta on Friday, November 20, 2009 (05:37:36)
Sometimes what feels like insight is really remembering what we already once knew. This collection of books about Latin America includes history, fiction, poetry, and analysis of social policy ...
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