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Visiting Writers Series: Charles Simic  Among his 30 books of poetry, Charon's Cosmology (1977) was nominated for the National Book Award, and Classic Ballroom Dances (1980), won the 1980 di Castagnola Award and the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award. In 1990, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The World Doesn't End. Walking the Black Cat (1996) was nominated for the National Book Award, Jackstraws (1999) was a New York Times Notable Book, and Selected Poems: 1963-2003 was the winner of the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize.... Link! Read More... |
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 Wall poetry tells story of immigration: Carved on the walls at the Immigration Station on California's Angel Island are hundreds of poems like this one, etched into the wood by Chinese immigrants waiting for permission to enter the United S...
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 | Diyala poetry festival shows signs of peace in Iraq: Poetry News: Basim al-Dafaie, an Iraqi poet, was optimistic when he saw the restoration of art and poetry festival in his province of Diyala after four years of turbulence and violence.
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| Editorial Ultramar Launches Miami Hispanic Poetry Collection: Poetry News: Editorial Ultramar, the Miami-based publishing division of the non-profit Hispanic Events, Inc., will launch "La Ciudad de la Unidad Posible, Seleccion Poetica de Miami" , a book featu...
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| November 18 NYAM Author Night Series: We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders...: Pamela Spiro Wagner has been affected by paranoid schizophrenia, a plight she eloquently explored in her award-winning book, Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey Through Schizophrenia, co-wri...
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| 'Bedtime Stories and Poems for Cat Lovers': The book has intriguing titles for the poetry section: "Opera Cat," "Cat in Orbit," "Organ Grinder's Cat," The poetry is followed by special bedtime stories to delight young ...
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L-R Herman van Rompuy, Jan Peter Balkenende, Jean-Claude Juncker - Wikipedia/ANP: Dutch vs Belgium It seemed unthinkable two months ago that the Belgian leader, who famously also writes haiku poetry every day, should be the bookies' favourite but his chances now look even better th...
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Report from NAGC - Day 3: Well, just before Gardner's keynote, a girl from the Missouri Scholars Academy blew everyone away with her poetry slam. Her delivery was well-polished, the content of her poem was highly relevant, and...
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Anthony Febo and Masada Jones Feature Nov. 11th in Boston: **Poetic Escape Special Edition**
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Agile and alluring: As an established Solo artist, she has traveled extensively in India, the United Kingdom, Canada, USA and Europe performing at prestigious dance festivals; working with dance companies and has won her...
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Def Poetry: This man is aggressively articulate. He speaks with authority. For some reason I still think he has a terrible point, though....
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REMEMBRANCE: Mark Chapman with his poem about Afghanistan through the eyes of a: AN ASPIRING poet from Plymouth has written a touching poem, gaining inspiration from friends who are servicemen. Mark Chapman, a business sales executive from Mannamead, has written 'My Daddy Is A Her...
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Long Island rock band Brand New plays House of Blues this week: “Daisy’’ is such a contrast to Brand New’s earlier work that it’s almost hard to believe it’s the same band. The caustic, dirty throwback to mid-’90s guitar indie and punk screaming is a...
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'Thomas Wolfe, The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings 1971-19: The Magical Campus collects for the first time the earliest published writings of Thomas Wolfe, the Asheville native son once called “the most promising writer of his generation.” He would have be...
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Kids Have Fun Reading and Writing Poetry At Worskhop With Bruce Lansky: Poetry News: Students from five Chicago Catholic schools learned how to write poetry from nationally known poet and musician Bruce Lansky, dubbed the 'King of Giggle Poetry,' at recent highly interact...
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Review: RECALL: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS 1967-2008, by H.R. Coursen: Moreover, Coursen’s poems carry a salubrious invisible that seems often absent even in the most precisely stated postwar verse. As Robert Graves observed, true poets are born, not made, and here we...
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Tracy Letts on segregated theatre, Hilton Als and Hollywood actors who shouldn't: My conversation with Tracy Letts - playwright of August: Osage County , currently on in Toronto, and Superior Donuts , currently on Broadway - was much longer than what's appearing in the paper tomorr...
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Earl Coleman, Publisher and Poet, Dies at 93: Earl M. Coleman was a fledgling short-story writer and poet fresh out of the Army when he got the idea for a custom translation business in 1946. At a poetry workshop he organized, he got to talking w...
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| On the Wealth of Poetry: "There are some pretty snappy comebacks to this one, but what I usually offer is Somerset Maugham's 'Poetry is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.'...
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Review: Venom and Nectar, Stefan Lowry: Venom and Nectar explores poetic forms blending story with character, art, history, cultures from the east to the west, haunting backdrops, romantically gothic underton...
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| BOOKS: 'Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker': Given the astringent quality of so much of Parker's verse, it is not surprising to learn that her long life was not a happy one — indeed eponymously not much fun — replete with sad childhood, alco...
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Story from NorthCountryNow.com: The event, part of the University's Writers Series, is free. Mackey is the author of four books of poetry, most recently “Splay Anthem,” which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2006. ...
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Book Review: The Endless String: Poems for Children (and the people...: Poetry News: "Have you ever pulled the endless string, the one that hangs and can't harm a thing?" Literature - Kids and Teens - Arts - Poetry - Little Jean
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Writers' fest features 3 UF alumni: Poetry News: ... will feature three graduates of the University of Florida who will offer their perspectives on fiction writing and poetry and read from their most recent works. Festival organizer Ji...
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| Sri Lanka: Age of struggle Tamil poetry comes in English: The book release event will also feature a play, Not by Our Tears, based on the poems and focussing on Eezham Tamil history since 1979, including the internment of 300, 000 people....
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| A Night of Writing Dangerously held at Junior High East: "Creative writing, poetry, song writing and script writing." The Night of Writing Dangerously was first established last year as a kick off for National ...
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