http://www.gotpoetry.com/ News for Poets. Place to write. en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:00:15 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly GotPoetry.com News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.gotpoetry.com/images/autoheader/logo-slogan.gif http://www.gotpoetry.com/ http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12190.html 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: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:00:15 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12189.html ...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). Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:55:52 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12188.html Subscribe to GotPoetry.com and gain access to more features of the site including not having to wait for your submitted poems to be approve, the ability to customize your user profile, a paid members forum, the ads that you see will disappear, and a few other extras as well. Being a paid member means you are supporting this site and are invested in this community. Subscribe today and keep us on the net! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:55:00 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12187.html 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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:51:19 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12186.html “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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:47:25 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12185.html 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 ...Link! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:44:54 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12184.html The United States leads the world in rates of experimenting with marijuana and cocaine despite strict drug laws, World Health Organization researchers said on Tuesday. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:42:22 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12183.html Relationship researchers are finding evidence that should help many married couples: Sexual affairs aren't limited to those in unhappy unions. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:40:11 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12182.html 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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:07:57 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12181.html 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 ...Link! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:03:43 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12180.html 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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:58:47 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12179.html 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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:55:18 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12178.html 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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:52:20 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12177.html ...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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:43:28 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12176.html 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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:39:39 GMT