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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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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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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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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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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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Not sure if there will be poetry news tomorrow.

• — “Check it out. (And hopefully laugh a bit, too.)” —
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• — Midwives use poetry to help women in labour —
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• — Free association, creative conversation, and the mean old world —
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• — Building a writing career requires making requests from people you know and people you don’t know. —
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• — two reviews in new issue of poets’ quarterly —
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• — Your chance to hear the stunning new Gil Scott-Heron album before anybody else —
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• — … Blue Collar Poet by G Emil Reutter. —
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• — William Logan says changes to the new edition of Frost’s notebooks constitute “every evidence of the pernicious and corrosive errors” the editor initially denied. —
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• — If MFA programs are attracting so many eager young poets, why is it that —
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• — Ask a Poet: I’m having a baby this year. What name or names would a poet recommend? —
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• — Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Gives Rare Interview —
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• — This is the poet and here is the tale of an e-mail tribute to Auden’s Night Mail —
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• — Despite her MS diagnosis, Exene Cervenka lives for the moment —
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• — The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got her middle name from the hospital —
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• — The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Dominion Foundation selected English Prof. Lisa Russ Spaar to receive one of the 2010 Outstanding Faculty awards last Wednesday. —
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• — Western Michigan University graduate student Gary L. McDowell has won the 2009 Orphic Prize for Poetry from Dream Horse Press and will have his manuscript, “American Amen,” published in late 2010. —
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• — D.A. Powell, who teaches at the University of San Francisco, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualties —
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• — DOD Identifies Marine Casualty —
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• — For James Dickey: A birthday interview with his son, Christopher Dickey —
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• — W.S. Merwin & Friends: Four Poets Share the Stage and Their Thoughts —
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• — Amiri Baraka reflects on James Baldwin’s place in the “tradition of the Afro-American intellectual, artist, teacher” at the 2001 event, Tribute to James Baldwin. [mp3] —
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• — The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion hosted Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace – Join Rafael & Brett-Candace as they talk to Connie Wanek Connie Wanek was born in 1952 in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the second of six children. Her family moved to a small farm outside Green Bay when she was very young, and they relocated to Las Cruces, New Mexico when she was twelve. In 1990 she moved with her husband, Phil, and her daughter, Hannah, and son, Casey, to Phil’s home town, Duluth, Minnesota, where she now lives. As a child in the country outside Green Bay, she attended a one-room school, where a single teacher taught all eight grades (no kindergarten) to seventeen students. Connie and her sisters read a great deal, and drew and wrote poems and stories. Later, in high school and college, Connie retained her interest in the arts, and also she participated in sports, especially tennis, which she played seriously for many years, along with her father and brother. Poetry was a constant, whatever her circumstances and enterprises. While raising two children, she worked in a family solar heating business, and later she learned the skills necessary to restore old houses. Also, she worked for years at the Duluth Public Library, from which she retired in 2007. [mp3] —
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• — “Where Verse Becomes A Learning Lesson” Join Hip Hop Jazz Poet A K Toney as he reads and reviews selections from 4 chapbooks on Finishing Line Press out of Georgetown, Kentucky. [mp3] —
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• — Indie Presses Find a Home on Campuses —
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• — Part poetry and part field guide, Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds combines more than 100 poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Charles Simic, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, and others with carefully matched illustrations by Sibley. —
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• — Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter: the case for a new Formalism Part 2 —
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• — Baby pictures of poets —
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• — The Thai based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma (AAPP-B) has called for the release of poet Saw Wei at the earliest possible date, as his release was set for the 21st of this month. —
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• — “Let the laughers stand up!” shouted a woman who I think was Eileen Myles. “Let’s interrogate the laughers.” —
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• — Where Fear Still Rules, Speaking Freely Makes a Comeback —
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• — Minnesota Poetry: Greg Hewett’s “Modern Living” —
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• — Author Maxine Hong Kingston switches to poetry —
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• — Commentary, art, and poetry by Eliette Markhbein, M.S., M.A. Founder, The Therapeutic Arts Program, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — DOD Identifies Marine Casualty —
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• — Achilles in the trenches: The Iliad and the poetry of WW1 —
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• — new lit mag alert —
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• — When artists are separated from the culture at large and held up as the Other, it only serves to further alienate us from our own creative force. —
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• — The Chaos …is a poem often used to demonstrate how difficult it is to pronounce words in English… —
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• — Whether or not Elinor (Frost’s wife) blamed Frost for the death isn’t known (at least to me). It might have been enough that Frost blamed himself. The poet’s ability to convincingly portray the wife shows that he was fully aware of how he might be (or have been) perceived. —
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• — Can’t there be something great in the sheer number of poets working today? Can it be like a fabulous bazaar, poems bunched and offered like flowers– exotic sellers, startling colors? —
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• — EA SENDS FOOTBALL FANS TO HELL WITH ‘DANTE’S INFERNO’ IN COMPANY’S FIRST SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL —
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• — San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima will give her inaugural address Tuesday, weaving a theme of how poetry fosters community —
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• — Delirious Hem is running This is What a Feminist [Poet] Looks Like forum #2, where each day this week you will find new responses. —
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• — Poster poems: Alliteration This month, building blocks: highlighting not a subject or form, but the oldest device used to organise poetry in English —
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• — This lack makes the poems feel kind of ghostly and disembodied: There’s an “I” in the poem of course, but it’s more like a very attentive spirit —
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• — Poem of the week: What the Mountain Saw by Philip Gross This time, an exemplary story-poem from the winner of the TS Eliot prize —
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• — Through a liberal application of her favorite poems, Morgan argues that the act of reading poetry changes the way the reader thinks, that bare facts are not enough to elicit good business decisions, and that the act of poetic deconstruction helps develop skills that are applicable to business —
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• — from NPR: Selected Shorts This program features unusual points of view. First, an excerpt from Colum McCann’s National Book Award-winning novel, >em< Let the Great World Spin< /em> records the moment just before Philippe Petit’s now-famous walk between the Twin Towers in 1974. The reader is Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell. Second, the narrator of Sherman Alexie’s “Salt” is a substitute obituary-writer for his local Washington State newspaper. The reader is Oscar nominee David Strathairn. [mp3] —
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• — from PEN American Center Podcasts Marie Ponsot reads from The Theater of Night by Alberto Álvaro Ríos at the 2007 Beyond Margins Celebration. [mp3] —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘Centuries of Ashes’ Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. [mp3] —
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• — The Poetry Show: Santa Cruz County’s First Poet Laureate – Gary Young [mp3] —
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Afaa Michael Weaver @ APSU has been canceled because of the recent snow and ice — more.

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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• — Why danger can be good for children guess it is time to bring back these toys [youtube] —
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• — Jeff Bezos in Disagreement With A Major Publisher, Pulls All Their Works’ “Buy Buttons” Off Amazon —
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• — After years of mimicking her betters at poetry, she found her calling —
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• — Zora Neale Hurston remembered on 50th anniversary of her death —
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• — Fine writers, lousy spouses —
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• — Accompanying the photos is a sestina by Mr. Trinidad called “Playing With Dolls,” in which his mother defends his doll habit —
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• — A Reading List for the Grieving —
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• — A Kittery Point poet and teacher, Green spent four weeks at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., working on a manuscript of 100 poems that she wanted to revise. —
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• — Ruth Padel on Derek Walcott, ‘dirty tricks’, and the worst mistake of her life —
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• — A love poem is principally a way of wooing, a strategy for seduction – and the Poetry Archive has compiled a collection you can send to your beloved on their mobile phone —
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• — New Lit Mag Alert —
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• — Unusual Calls for Submissions —
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• — Pros and Cons of Interning at a Lit Mag —
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• — Homeless young adults express themselves through poetry, build community, better lives —
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• — 3 questions with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky —
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• — Rarely do I come across a book of poems that reads as though it had to be written. When I do, I’m reminded why I read poems in the first place —
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• — For starters Bukowski’s assertion that he was born a bastard is inaccurate: he was born on August 16th, 1920; his parent had married, albeit only a month before, on July 15th. —
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• — Yet without medical classification, but real in its effects, let us call this pandemic by the name poet-oxemia. —
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• — Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur Product Reviews —
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• — “What is a cat but a reduced lion?” So muses the fictionalized Joseph Brodsky character in Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s whimsical and inventive film, A Room and a Half. —
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• — There are a few things that make Wendy Barker, poet-in-residence and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, angry. One of them is how intimidated people can be of poetry. —
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• — Reviews of New Fiction, Poetry, Mystery, Science Fiction and Comics — Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2010 —
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• — Can creative writing ever be taught? —
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• — Spitball The Literary Baseball Magazine has moved —
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• — Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter: the case for a new Formalism —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
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• — Poetry roundup | Book review —
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• — Uncovered: Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner —
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• — How does an outfielder know where to run for a fly ball? —
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• — Alan Lightman—scientist, essayist, novelist, and poet—takes on the big questions —
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• — Patricia and Edward Submitted by Ryan from My Parents Were Awesome —
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• — Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude —
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• — The Romantic poets: The Human Image and The Divine Image by William Blake —
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• — Invictus aside, poetry in cinema is embarrassing —
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• — Poetry, in its power to burn experience into the soul in a concentrated perfection of language often becomes an unlikely balm. —
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• — NaPoWriMo 2010 is coming! [from No Tell Motel thank you]—
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• — A few years after the dedication, he decided to revisit “his” high school. By then a different principal was in charge. The new man thought Sandburg was a panhandler and threw him out. —
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• — George Tsongas dies: poet, North Beach fixture —
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• — Women and Disability and Poetry (Not Necessarily in That Order) —
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• — More drawings from my notebook that is so small, I can only fit the faces of people I draw. Not to be confused with the online social network Facebook. —
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• — Cerebral Meditation Hosted Roy Johnston – Join Roy as he talks to Stanley Plumly about his Keats Bio Poets who die young often have surprisingly lively posthumous careers. John Keats (1795-1821) provides the most celebrated example: Almost immediately after his death in Rome, at the age of 25, he entered the realm of legend. Though his poetry wasn’t much read at the time, he himself was quickly transformed into a figure of myth. For Shelley — who drowned with a copy of Keats’s last book in his pocket — he was “like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherished,” as he put it in “Adonais,” his elegy for the poet. At the opposite extreme, Shelley’s good friend Lord Byron detested Keats and snubbed him, referring to him in one letter as “a dirty little blackguard.” For the aristocratic Byron, Keats was a “Cockney” upstart — more a rank weed than a pale lily. But for Keats’s admirers, his humble origins only enhanced the pathos of his fate. For William Butler Yeats, Keats was both the “coarse-bred son of a livery-stable keeper” and a woebegone schoolboy “with face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window,” the very epitome of sensuousness unsatisfied. [mp3] —
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• — The Reading Is Poetry Review – “Where Verse Becomes A Learning Lesson” Join Hip Hop Jazz Poet A K Toney as he reads and reviews selections from “Skovbo” by Viggo Mortenson. (Perceval Press 2009) A Collection of photographs, poems, and quotes. (in English, Spanish, and Danish [mp3] —
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• — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – Join Rachelle as she Talks to Alicia Ostriker – Alicia Ostriker, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven. Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. She has received awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Poetry Society of America, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center, among others. Ostriker lives in Princeton, NJ, is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the low-residency Poetry MFA program of New England College. ***** Rachelle Cruz, Poet and Host of “The Blood-Jet Writing Hour” Radio Show www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com www.rachellecruz.com [mp3] —
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• — Jo Mcdougall – from Joe Milford Show | Jo McDougall is the author of five books of poetry: The Woman in the Next Booth, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City; Towns Facing Railroads and From Darkening Porches, University of Arkansas Press; and, most recently, Dirt and Satisfied with Havoc, Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh. Her memoir in progress, Daddy’s Money, focuses on growing up on a rice farm in the Arkansas delta. [mp3] —
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• — Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter. [mp3] —
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• — Dharma Poetry: WH Auden, a Reflection on Haiti and Human Suffering —
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• — Mary Oliver rose to fame on her nature poems. Yet some of her most ardent fans are preachers who spend even the loveliest Sunday mornings inside, wearing starchy clothes. —
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• — Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family’s Feuds —
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• —Today the Governor’s office put out a press release announcing the appointment of Cathy Smith Bowers as North Carolina’s new Poet Laureate and |A few links for the new laureate … | Queens professor named N.C. poet laureate |Cathy Smith Bowers named poet laureate –
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• — Jazz ensemble merges 18th century poetry with Brazilian rhythms —
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• — Spring 2010 Hardcovers: Poetry —
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• — Write for yourself first. I don’t mean write cryptically, so that no one knows what you mean; that is silly. I mean, find your own voice and use it. —
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• — Self-Published Poets · Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka —
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• — why poetry is bullshit —
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• — An introduction to the poetry of William Wordsworth —
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• — Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among other Histories —
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• — Provincetown Crossing —
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• — Bacteria Are More Capable of Complex Decision-Making Than Thought —
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• — The company’s “Poetry in a Bottle” contest will award the winning poet with a three-night stay in a luxury suite at the Esencia Estate www.esenciaestate.com in Mexico’s Riviera Maya, one of the first spots to serve Ikal1150 wines and a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. —
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• — William Major and Bryan Sinche, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, consider the vatic pronouncements of Ralph Waldo Emerson and conclude, “This is the prose of a crazy person.” —
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• — Shining a Light on a Forgotten Poet —
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• — An introduction to the poetry of Robert Burns —
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• — The Poetry Show: Rabbie Burns and the work of other Scottish poets [mp3] —
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• — New Wordplay V shows on the archive —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘Ports of Sorrow’
  from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. [mp3] —
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• — The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion hosted Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace – Carmen Giménez Smith is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University, and publisher for Noemi Press as well as editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol. Her work has most recently appeared in Ploughshares and Colorado Review and is forthcoming in A Public Space, jubilat, Denver Quarterly and New American Writing. Her collection of poetry, Odalisque in Pieces, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2009. A memoir called Bring Down the Little Birds will be published by University of Arizona Press in 2010. [mp3] —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘Root’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Terrance Hayes is is the author of three books of poems: “Muscular Music” (1999) [mp3] —
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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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