Feb 7th, 2010 2:21 PM Posted in Nashville, Poetry News by Jilly Dybka | no comment »
Title: Rebecca Seiferle Reading
Location: Vanderbilt, Buttrick 101
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Description: Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series 2009-2010
Rebecca Seiferle, poetry
Start Time: 7pm
Date: 2010-02-25
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Feb 5th, 2010 12:48 PM Posted in Nashville, Poetry News by Jilly Dybka | no comment »
Title: Poetry Radio Show: Difficult Listening
Location: Radio Free Nashville 107.1 or streaming audio
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Description: Poetry Radio Show Difficult Listening with David Harris
Start Time: 10:00am
Date: February 7, 2010
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Feb 4th, 2010 12:43 PM Posted in Nashville, Poetry News by Jilly Dybka | no comment »
Title: Gates of Silence, premiere
Location: Vanderbilt University, Blair School of Music, Ingram Hall
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Description: Composer, Susan Botti; lyrics, Linda Gregerson; performers, Susan Botti and the Blakemore Trio.
Vanderbilt University
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2010-02-19
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Feb 4th, 2010 12:00 AM Posted in Poetry News by Jilly Dybka | no comment »
One of my guinea fowl laid an egg. One. Egg. Right on the snow. First one.
- — Kearney’s The Black Automaton proves cryptic — it speaks a trickster’s hex, pushing us towards a sentiment that the tragedies of today might soon bleed into the mythologies of the past, if we’re not careful. —
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- — Each poem in this sequence is packed to the brim with almost illicit words and inscapes — a mixture of the fantastical and the quasi-theoretical. —
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- — It’s funny, I’ve never thought of food as a source of inspiration for my poems, but lately everyone has been pointing this out to me, as if I were obsessed with eating. —
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- — They discuss, among other things, his insane use of exclamation points, how he wants you (befuddled & awestruck) while holding his hand, that flimsy curtain between Memory & Imagination, and his upcoming aesthetic compound. Look out New World! —
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- — These three poems are some of the latest from Linh Dinh’s newest book, Some Kind of Cheese Orgy. —
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- — Today we’ve released the newest episode of “PoemTalk”–number 28 in our series. This one is about Jack Spicer’s early poem, “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy. [mp3] —
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- — Scott of the Antarctic’s final diary published online —
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- — why poetry is awesome —
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- — KQED: The Writers’ Block Podcast Patti Smith reads from JUST KIDS, her memoir about life with Robert Mapplethorpe. [mp3]—
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- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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- — Etta James, We’re Pulling For You —
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- — Archival recordings of poet Weldon Kees, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in Berkeley, California in 1952. [mp3] —
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- — The delightful folks at the Poetry Society of America have invited me to review chapbooks in this space, and I jumped at the chance. —
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- — Pay It Forward: Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior —
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- — Tigers GM fulfills an injured police officer’s dream —
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- — Sheepfarmer’s Daughter download free —
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- — Lee Mallory continues to wow crowds at Newport Beach coffeehouse with his words and antics. —
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- — Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally. —
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- — Living Writers WCBN – T Hetzel with Thomas Lynch [mp3] —
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- — Beth Bachmann of Vanderbilt University is the 2010 winner of The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, given to honor a poet’s first book. —
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- — Professor Laura Lomas Is Winner of 2009 Modern Language Association Prize, in United States Latina/O Literary and Cultural Studies —
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- — Passion Maps explores the disorientation of a shift between cultures. —
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- — Gherasim Luca, surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, has finally been translated into English, with two volumes this year: The Passive Vampire and Inventor of Love & Other Writings. —
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- — The Art Of Poetry: A Conversation With W.S. Merwin —
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That’s it for the week; I feel like crap. Have a good weekend.
LOL that last part wasn’t sarcastic.
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Tags: Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Beth Bachmann, Douglas Kearney, Elizabeth Marie Young, Gherasim Luca, Jack Spicer, Jason Koo, Laura Lomas, Lee Mallory, Linh Dinh, Nate Pritts, poet, poetry, Poetry News, poets, WS Merwin
Feb 3rd, 2010 1:28 PM Posted in Nashville, Poetry News by Jilly Dybka | no comment »
Title: Poetry Open Mike @ Springwater
Location: 115 27th Ave N
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Description: Free Open Mic Poetry night @ Springwater Supper Club every Wednesday from 8pm to 10pm.
Springwater is a “21 and Over” establishment.
Start Time: 20:00
Date: February 10, 2010
End Time: 22:00
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Feb 1st, 2010 4:44 PM Posted in Poetry News by Jilly Dybka | Comments Off
Afaa Michael Weaver @ APSU has been canceled because of the recent snow and ice — more.
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Feb 1st, 2010 1:06 PM Posted in Nashville, Poetry News by Jilly Dybka | Comments Off
Title: Shakespeare Allowed!
Location: Nashville Public Library, Downtown
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Description: Henry IV Part 2
THE BEST WAY TO READ SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IS OUT LOUD AND WITH FRIENDS!
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival invites you to read every play Shakespeare wrote, out loud in a reading circle.
Location: West Reading Room
Start Time: 1:00pm
Date: February 6, 2010
End Time: 4:00
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Feb 1st, 2010 12:30 PM Posted in Poetry News by Jilly Dybka | one comment »
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Jan 30th, 2010 1:05 PM Posted in Nashville, Poetry News by Jilly Dybka | Comments Off
Title: Reading – US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan
Location: KNOXVILLE – UT University Center Auditorium
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Description: The University of Tennessee and the general public have an extraordinary opportunity to attend a reading by current United States Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan on Tuesday, February 16 at 7pm EST, in the University Center Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by The University of Tennessee College of Arts & Sciences, English Department, Women’s Coordinating Council, and GBLT Committee.
Start Time: 7pm EST
Date: February 16, 2010
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