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NZ Poet Laureate to MC celebration of Kiwi poetry
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
New Zealand Poet Laureate Michele Leggott will MC 'Poetry Central', a celebration of Kiwi poetry, on Montana Poetry Day, Friday 18 July. ...

Poetry isn't in the cards
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Sometimes it's poetry, like when Richard Greenberg described baseball as "unrelentingly meaningful" in his Tony-winning play, "Take Me Out. ...

Events showcase the voice of Ferrini's poetry
Gloucester Daily Times - MA, USA
This weekend, Music at Eden's Edge will perform the world premiere of a composition inspired by Ferrini's poetry in a work titled "Listening to the Sea ...

More on poetry and war
Lew Rockwell - Burlingame,CA,USA
I learned how to like non-rhyming poetry from Owen's poetry. As I've said on LRC before, we live in an age in which the old devour the young. ...

American Life in Poetry
Easy Reader - Hermosa Beach,CA,USA
by Ted Kooser Sometimes I think that people are at their happiest when they're engaged in activities close to the work of the earliest humans: telling ...

• Thomas Disch; Sci-Fi Writer Was Part of 'New Wave'
Washington Post - United States
In addition to science fiction, Thomas M. Disch wrote poetry and criticism. His children's book "The Brave Little Toaster" was turned into an animated film ...

Condensing Jerusalem
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
"This country is small and contains two nations, this city is small and has many people who are seeking a means of expression, and poetry is the smallest ...

Rendering of Sufi poetry at PU
The Post - Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan
LAHORE: In connection with its ongoing 125-year celebrations, Punjab University will organize a 'Mehfil-e-Arfana Kalam' today (Thursday) at the Faisal ...

Summer Poetry Reading: Heather McHugh
BU Today - United States, MA
She is the author of various poetry collections, literary essays, as well as translations. Her works include Eyeshot, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer ...

DELECTABLE PIECES/Amanda Lenk - Wine, poetry and shrimp at Bar ...
Alexandria Times - Alexandria,VA,USA
wrote Charles Baudelaire, “On wine, on poetry or on virtue, as you wish.” And so it was at the opening of the new Bar Baudelaire, located above the ...

The Poetry Party of the Year
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
The largest poetry organization in the world, the International Society of Poets (ISP), will hold its annual poetry convention in Las Vegas, ...

Pure poetry from a man who loves his poultry
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
At his best, Sheasley writes poetry. As he finished writing the book, he and his wife, Suzanne, had lived for six years on their five-acre farm, ...

Poetry Notebook 7-13-08
indy.com - Indianapolis,IN,USA
by JL Kato CLUB DISBANDS: Moods in Rhythm Poetry Club, a Greenfield affiliate of Indiana State Federation of Poetry Clubs, has chosen to disband. ...

Poetry alive (7/13)
The Commercial Dispatch - Columbus,MS,USA
In these parts, it’s not every day you have the opportunity to attend a poetry reading. Though, in early June, the Rosenzweig Arts Center hosted an open mic ...

Lord's Diary: Not quite the poetry of motion but still graceful
Independent - London,England,UK
Much better than doggerel, though not quite poetry in the strict sense, it captivated and was bought by thousands. And his life and times have been captured ...

The Body and the Book. Writings on Poetry and Sexuality.
Fabula - France
Sarah P. GAMBLE: A Poetics Of Erasure: Mark Doty's Queer Coast Tatiani G. RAPATZIKOU: Viral Seduction and ‘Penetrated' Bodies in Rob Hardin's Poetry.

H. Bekker, Paul Celan. Studies in His Early Poetry
Fabula - France
Paul Celan: Studies in His Early Poetry scrutinizes the influences detectable in the poems written during 1938-48. Among German writers, Büchner, Goethe, ...

Great Basin offers magic, bluegrass, cowboy poetry
Carson Times - Reno,NV,USA
Sunday is an evening of cowboy poetry featuring Larry Elliott. Bring a blanket and low-back lawn chairs but no glass containers, alcohol or pets. ...

ECCB hosts song and poetry competition
SUN Weekend - Antigua and Barbuda
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is launching a poetry and song competition under the theme “Strength and Stability. ...

Poetry integral part of life in hamlet
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
For generations, both the young and the old in the hamlet of Hoang Duong in Ung Hoa town in the northern province of Ha Tay have communicated by poetry. ...

Poetry in motion
ArabianBusiness.com - Dubai,Umm al Qaiwain,United Arab Emirates
by Vijaya Cherian on Sunday, 13 July 2008 The set design of production house Pyramedia’s Prince of Poets and Million’s Poet programmes demonstrate the ...

Blossoming words of poetry
Times of India - India
No it wasn’t held in a flowery garden, but the title of Urdu poetry book by Ghazala Anwar- Mehekte Phool gave all the fragrance to the lines inked in the ...

All writers are invited to enter poetry competition
Portsmouth News - Portsmouth,England,UK
If you have a talent for writing poetry then you may be in with a chance of winning a cash prize at the Havant Literary Festival Open Poetry Competition. ...

Poetry Slam allows young and old to use the power of words
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
Austin poet and former Austin Slam team member Wammo popularized poetry slam in 1992 in Austin when he joined the MTV Spoken Word Tour. ...

Sunday Poetry and Reading Series: Typewriter Girls
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The July installment of the free monthly Sunday Poetry and Reading Series features The Typewriter Girls. The Typewriter Girls are decadent intellectuals ...

Star unveils Dylan prize hopefuls
BBC News - UK
While many of the listed books are works of fiction, poetry is also strongly represented, with Jamaican-born Kei Miller's There is an Anger that Moves among ...

On Poetry: Rhythm washes up in waves
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City,MI,USA
So, here's a question for summer: When the tide goes in and out, when the waves wash up in rhythm, why is it that most contemporary poetry doesn't have a ...

‘Can You Imagine’: Author Shares His Life Stories Through New ...
eReleases (press release) - Perry Hall,MD,USA
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, July 15, 2008 — Short stories and poems encourage the reader to imagine the possibilities for their life in Kelly K. Owens’ new book ...

Praise for Peggy’s poetry
Huddersfield Examiner - Huddersfield,UK
I think that she has a remarkable talent for writing poetry and I have no doubt that thousands of your readers will have enjoyed them over the years. ...

Motion in poetry gig
Lakeland Today - Morecambe,England,UK
Poet Laureate And-rew Motion will take part in September, and has described the readings as the best poetry programmei n Britain. Tonight's event starts at ...

LUI KIT WONG/THE NEWS TRIBUNE
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA
“Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy” revisits that life via poetry and prose – just Goller-Sojourner onstage with ...

Literature & poetry previews
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
The Poetry Arena will be hosted acclaimed Norwich poet Luke Wright, and they'll be a large poetry contingent from the city, including Hannah Walker, ...

Poetry uses all six senses
Tonight - Johannesburg,South Africa
When she reached high school (Athlone High School for Girls in Observatory) she discovered the poetry and writings of WB Yeats, John Keats, ...

Poetry in motion: over London by airship
guardian.co.uk - UK
There are certainly much cheaper ways to see London, but few can be as serene as to glide over the capital 1000 feet above the ground at 30mph in an airship ...

40 years of poetic work
Lake Placid News - Lake Placid,NY,USA
Kendrick said he started writing poetry in the mid-1960s when he was working as a teacher. “I was teaching and coaching for about eight years. ...

Summer Poetry Reading: Louise Gluck and Frank Bidart
BU Today - United States, MA
Author of eight books of poetry as well as a book of essays, Proofs and Theories, and editor of The Best American Poetry 1993. Her works include her first ...

Evening of poetry with pros
The Union of Grass Valley - Grass Valley,CA,USA
Five expert poets who are on the staff of this summer's Squaw Valley Community of Writers will read from their published and unpublished work July 24, ...

Call to Readers: To express poetry in motion, try a haiku
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
Eppie's Great Race, dubbed the "World's Oldest Triathlon," deserves a literary form of its own. That's why we've created "tri-ku," a triathlon poem in the ...

Poetry in motion
Houston Chronicle - United States
But as Houston's first student poetry team competes this week, the performers will also show off some of the most valuable skills of a classical education. ...

Poet Kay Ryan is named poet laureate
International Herald Tribune - France
The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to Emily Dickinson's, ...

Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate
New York Times - United States
By PATRICIA COHEN When Kay Ryan was a student at the University of California, Los Angeles, the poetry club rejected her application; she was perhaps too ...

Robert Redford Fights Global Warming With Poetry
NPR - USA
These days, he has a new venue for environmental activism: slam poetry. Sponsored by Redford's Sundance Preserve, in collaboration with Youth Speaks, ...

Links to Poetry Blogs

Lit Thursday: Poetry meets fair trade
By Siel
But what’s cool here is that cutting edge, pushing-the-envelope poetry’s also behind HI. The latest Tiny Books publication’s an excerpt from The Tradition by Juliana Spahr. Not familiar with her work? Read some of Juliana’s poems from ...
green LA girl - http://greenlagirl.com

Determination and Poetry: The Life of Cristina Rosetti
By Hännah Schlaudt
In 1862, she published her first volume of poetry, Goblin Market and Other Poems. This was to become the most well-known of her writings, and as she wrote more and published her poems in various magazines, she became quite respected in ...
Regenerated Mag - http://www.regeneratedmag.com

Poetry Reading in Auckland
By Jeremy
MEDIA RELEASE NZ Poet Laureate to MC celebration of Kiwi poetry on Montana Poetry Day, Friday 18 July New Zealand Poet Laureate Michele Leggott will MC ‘Poetry Central’, a celebration of Kiwi poetry, on Montana Poetry Day, ...
Scoop Review Of Books - http://books.scoop.co.nz

Wash Day, by Allen Grossman
By Allen Grossman
Soiled thoughts heap up / like rags in a basket. / Time to do a wash. / The weather's right, / bright and windy. / A quick-dry day. / First, soap. Not store-bought. / But stone-hard pig fat / and lye mixed with / oatmeal in a pail. ...
Poetry Daily - http://www.poems.com

Poetry Reading in Wellington
By Jeremy
Media Release As a curtain-raiser for Montana Poetry Day, we present readings by writers whose poems appear in the 2007 anthology of Best New Zealand Poems (edited by Paula Green), including Montana Poetry Award finalist Johanna ...
Scoop Review Of Books - http://books.scoop.co.nz

Poetry Prompt
By Beaman(Beaman)
As some might have noticed, I've been rather preoccupied with setting up my new poetry website 'Pen Me A Poem'. I have been worried about my lack of commitment to the above two causes that I take great pride in being associated with and ...
Beaman's World - http://beamansworld.blogspot.com/

Bipolar Poetry
By Lisa
Poetry can allow you to tell without telling, to process difficult feelings and emotions, to help you or the reader understand complicated situations, to take layers of complicated life’s experiences and put meaning into them and to ...
Rapid Cycling - http://rapidcycling.wordpress.com

Launch Of Issue 8 Revival Poetry Journal
By Dominic(Dominic)
The White House Poets would like to acknowledge the involvement of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, Foras na Gaeilge, Limerick City Council, http://www.limerick.com/ and the White House Bar for their continued support,
whitehousepoets - http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/

On Monday, the San Jose Poetry Slam Is Featuring My Boyfriend!
By kat0ninetales(kat0ninetales)
My friends, riding high off of the success of San Jose’s Battle of the Bay (the place was packed, and the poetry and the weather were HOT!), we’re excited to bring you another awesome show. This Monday, July 14th, while the San Jose ...
Random Rants - http://kat0ninetales.livejournal.com/

Poetry Prompt 1
By Edward
It is for this precise reason that I have decided to start a weekly prompt for devotees and practitioners of poetry and verse. Each Friday at approximately 18:00 (London time) I will provide an inspiring and stimulating cue from which ...
Pen Me A Poem - http://www.penmeapoem.com/

Poetry Archive publishes its 100th CD
The Poetry Archive is a unique project dedicated to bringing poetry to a wider audience and to recording today's poets for posterity. It has worked systematically to record the voices of living poets and to make them available though ...
SLA Weblog - http://www.sla.org.uk/sla-blog.php

Costa Poetry Cafe, Liverpool July 24th, 2008
By admin
Reader Online contributor and poet Rebecca Goss writes with a reminder that the next Costa Poetry Café evening will be at 7.30pm at Costa Coffee on Bold Street, Liverpool, and that she will be reading her poetry there. ...
The Reader - http://thereaderonline.co.uk

Love Poetry
By bookbug87
I’ve ever written poetry to You are that special and unique Without trying, you’ve grabbed me Now I would know that you care. Hoping above all hope That my gift is precious I know that it’s pure Do you have any doubts at all? ...
A Humble Bookworm, Trying to... - http://bookbug87.wordpress.com

£5000 Poetry Society Competition: 2008 Entry Details
By Ben - Editor
The 99-year-old Poetry Society (UK) has opened its annual competition, with £5000 to dangle in front of eager wordsmiths, and a £5-for-the-first, £3-thereafter entry fee to weed out chancers (and hopefully pay for the prize, ...
BOOK SA - News - http://news.book.co.za/blog

My top three favorite poetry readings, like, ever! (Part II)
By By Alan Gilbert
So my second favorite poetry reading is one I never would have predicted: Clayton Eshleman reading the entirety of his translation of Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. There was a reading series in the late ’90s ...
Harriet - http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/

Cloudy Day Art #85 - Poetry for the Young Generation
By cloudydayart@gmail.com (Will Brown)
This show is in honor of the 11th Annual International Youth Poetry Slam - Brave New Voices 2008 festival that is taking place this week in Washington, DC. If you are in the area, I would love to meet up with you this week, ...
Cloudy Day Art - Poetry Podcast... - http://www.cloudydayart.com

Art and poetry from the post-Enligthenment and pre-Modernist era
By Kattullus
ArtMagick is a collection of art and poetry that roughly dates from after the Enlightenment but before Modernism. While the poetry section is extensive the main draw is the sites extensive art collection, which can be browsed by artist, ...
MetaFilter - http://www.metafilter.com/

DETROIT///POETRY///JACK WHITE’S ODE TO THE MOTOR CITY…
By J O'Shea/Editor
Disclaimer: As a rule we hate poetry (and performance art)… White Stripes/Raconteurs frontman and native Detroiter JACK WHITE has taken a lot of heat in the past two years following his move from Detroit’s historic urban Indian Village ...
SuperTouch - http://www.supertouchart.com

Patterns 'N Poetry Website/Software
By ljrsphb
We are announcing the release of the poetry software Patterns 'N Poetry, Demonstration Edition. Also the opening of the Patterns 'N Poetry website. We are looking to create a poetry learning community with the focus on poetry forms ...
MetaFilter Projects - http://projects.metafilter.com/

Texas Tech University Professor Receives Prestigious Donald ...
By Jessica Benham
John Poch, associate professor of creative writing, was one of two winners selected this year to receive $1000 and a reading at the West Chester Poetry Conference, the largest annual poetry conference in the United States. ...
Texas Tech Today - http://today.ttu.edu

Photos of waves like haiku poetry
Waves like poetry photos, furious and still one dual nature. See seven photo diptychs of waves made by Japanese buddhist monk Syoin Kajii, and read a short, insightful interview with the photographer.
lens culture photography weblog - http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/

Poetry in Education…….In-Verse-Education
By bhaskarbenjamin
IN.VERSE. SCIENCE. Whenever we do some work , for instance. We move some force, for sure, through a distance. well , distance , as you know , is speed x time. so if you are lazy & slow … you shall never be on time ! ...
LET US CHANGE SCHOOLS !!! - http://creativityinedu.wordpress.com

found poetry
By sofia barão(sofia barão)
Yesterday was the first time I found poetry there, I was so so happy. Poetry published by a woman in the 80's about life, love and details. On my way home I found this little white and yellow feather. Just what I needed on a grey light ...
sofia barão - http://lafeecoriandre.blogspot.com/

I looked for her in places of agony
By James Lee Jobe(James Lee Jobe)
Brenda Hillman’s most recent work is Pieces of Air in the Epic, her eighth volume of poetry. Previous titles include Cascadia and Loose Sugar. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award for ...
just poetry - http://jamesleejobe.livejournal.com/

Poetry on the Street
By artandmylife
An article in yesterday’s New York Times caught my eye and was illustrated with this stencil. Fernando Pessoa on a wall of a building in the Bica neighborhood of Lisbon. “Pessoa was raised in South Africa, trilingual, ...
Art and My Life - http://artandmylife.wordpress.com

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