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I’ll be back when I’m feeling better. The Nashville Poetry Calendar events will continue to autopost.
–Jilly

Title: Jean Valentine Poetry Reading
Location: Vanderbilt University, Wilson 103
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Description: Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series 2009-2010
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-24

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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: March 14, 2010

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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: March 7, 2010

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Title: Shakespeare Allowed!
Location: Nashville Public Library, Downtown
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Description: Much Ado About Nothing

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: 1pm
Date: March 6, 2010
End Time: 4pm

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Title: 14th Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference
Location: Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro
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Description: Sponsored by the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University, this conference focuses on the role of baseball in literature and culture. Presentations include papers from baseball scholars on a variety of topics including baseball and social issues, baseball and language, baseball in fiction and poetry, and baseball in drama.

Special Guests

Luncheon Speaker:
Jim “Mudcat” Grant, former major league pitcher, author, The Black Aces

Keynote Address:
Dr. Harriett Hamilton, Alabama A&M University
Date: March 27, 2010

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Title: Poetry Radio Show: Difficult Listening
Location: Radio Free Nashville 107.1 or streaming audio
Link out: Click here
Description: Poetry Radio Show Difficult Listening with David Harris
Start Time: 10:00am
Date: February 28, 2010

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This is the last post for a while. Good luck with your poetry. See you in the   funny papers   lit mags.

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• — Hulu – The Nobel Prize: Exiled Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz Wins 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature —
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• — More poetesses close to Million’s Poet title —
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• — Are your poems flat as a family snapshot? Learning to release the energy in your images can open up your poetry’s hidden depths. —
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• — workshop redux: give me a (line) break —
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• — Inauguration poet praises virtue of work —
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• — Hearing people talk at cocktail parties may be easier if you’ve been musically trained, according to new research that shows music fine-tunes certain language abilities in the brain. —
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• — Insect Museum’s annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge returns —
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• — An analysis of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing and song writing is presented in light of the effects of his mixed-right-handedness on motoric and conceptual processing. It is argued that (i) his mixed-handedness allowed him greater integration of the roles of his left and right hands in guitar playing and (ii) his right-handedness conferred specific benefits in playing a left-handed guitar. In terms of his song writing, the greater interhemispheric interaction (and consequent greater access to right hemisphere processing) associated with mixed-handedness is argued to characterise aspects of his lyrics and vocal delivery —
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• — Asahi Haikuist Network —
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• — A turn from recent trends in literature, this book trusts language to reveal the world. —
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• — Your rules for writing-Saturday’s selection of expert advice on how to write fiction has generated a lot of interest. But we’d like to know your maxims, too —
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• — NewPages February Lit Mag Reviews —
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• — Literary legacy: In 1899, Paul Laurence Dunbar visited Denver to ease his TB and write. Today, a British scholar is intrigued by three of the pivotal figure’s works that saw print only in this paper —
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• — It’s the birthday of the woman who wrote “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends — / It gives a lovely light!” —
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• — Charles Bukowski Stamp Running Out of Time —
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• — Poem provides evidence that Anne Boleyn had numerous affairs —
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• — Ancient Poet Joins WWE Smackdown —
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• — Köhler painted the American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski— uninhibited, antisocial spokesman for drinking, fighting, and fucking; defender of the inescapable squalor, oppressiveness, and futility of life—in an earthy, visceral red. —
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• — Honan channels the worst poet ever in Portland Stage’s ‘Real McGonagall’ —
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• — The last time an opponent of the communist government died in Cuba during a hunger strike was 1972 with poet and activist Pedro Luis Boitel. —
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• — As a young child, Edward Hirsch mistook Emily Bronte’s work for his grandfather’s. —
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• — It’s not possible to bring back the dead, but yesterday the final work of Australian poet Dorothy Porter was bought vividly to life by actress Cate Blanchett in a sold-out Things On Sunday event at the Malthouse Theatre —
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• — Rare Disease Day designed to raise public awareness of uncommon illnesses —
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• — At the age of 17 Sylvia Plath referred to herself in her diary as ‘the girl who wanted to be god’, this use of the past tense perhaps foreshadowing her early demise. —
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• — Bolano’s early novella reimagines the last days of Peruvian writer Vallejo during Spanish Civil War. —
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• — Poems by Olympic poet-in-residence soar with athletes —
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• — Book Review | ‘Leavings’ by Wendell Berry —
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• — If Emily Dickinson had wanted to make a spectacle of herself, she could have wandered solo into a disreputable “rum resort” to sit on the lap of a not-so-gentlemanly scholar, as Jerome Charyn has her do in his daring novel about the Emily who might have been —
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• — The Millay Society plans to open Steepletop, the home of the late poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, to the public for tours starting May 28. —
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• — Israel turns down bid to teach Palestinian poems in schools —
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• — When is a consonant a vowel? —
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• — Feds push for tracking cell phones —
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• — In poem after marvellous poem, Robertson creates a series of elusive identities. —
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• — Keep and Give Away is driven by, as one reviewer has said, the central paradox of loving and letting go. —
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• — 112-year-old Mother Ruby Muhammad plans to sing, read poetry on stage —
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• — 5 Questions with Gary Young, Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County —
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• — Michelangelo drawings of his muse go on display —
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• — Juliana Gray, assistant professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Alfred University, received the 2010 Bea Gonzalez Prize for Poetry —
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• — Reviews of new Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, Romance, Science-Fiction, and Graphic Novels [and poetry] —
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• — Nazi spoons, robots vie for oddest title —
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• — In this week’s poem, a beautiful nocturne, the New York poet Samuel Menashe finds transcendence in everyday images —
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• — To recognize and help celebrate the start of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, P&PC goes into its archive to reprint this posting on Olympians and Olympic poetry. —
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• — Five Questions with Collin Kelley, author of “Conquering Venus.” —
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• — Ask a Poet: Why do women seem so normal at the workplace or in a board meeting or in evening classes, but then when you get to know them, you find out that they’re just so damn unreasonable and complicated? I like your column, but I bet you’re obnoxious, too. Just like the rest of them. —
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• — Roger Robinson responds to your poems on fatherhood —
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• — The dark horse candidate who would be Oxford’s new professor of poetry —
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• — `Forty Rules of Love’ tells story of Rumi’s life —
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• — A piece of history is lost as bookstore closes —
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• — Poet-professor takes aim at women’s issues in ‘Hot Bullets’ —
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• — Poem of the week: A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation by Aphra Behn —
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• — In my memory it goes like this: I wrote the poem in one sitting after watching a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in January or February. The poem just sprang out of me, needing no revision. Everything in the poem happened just as I describe it. But here’s the truth: I keep a little “events” journal, and I still have the drafts of the poem, so I decided to check. —
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• — … Louisville man charged with threatening to kill president in poem. —
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• — Terza Rima – a defence of rhyme —
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• — free verse done right —
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• — Vile Poetry Hardly Worst Unwanted Detritus Stuffed in SF Weekly Box —
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• — Fairy Tale Review: Call for The Brown Issue —
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• — A short story collection by a Vanderbilt University professor described as “an amazingly original Flannery O’Connor/Loretta Lynn collision” is one of five nominees for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. —
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• — This is the first Plath audio release in more than three decades with new, previously unreleased recordings!! —
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• — “Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present,” the first serious anthology of law-related poetry ever published in the United States, will become available March 1 from the University of Iowa Press. —
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• — Poetry magazine Free Lunch ends its run —
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• — The Saturday poem – On Lacking the Killer Instinct by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin From The Sun-fish —
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• — Tuesday and Wednesday this week I had the great fortune to interact with Kay Ryan, our current U.S. Poet Laureate. She came to the University of Tennessee to give a poetry reading and interact with students and various campus groups. —
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• — Fringe interview: Poet Bryan Roth on the Meaning of Poetry —
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• — Covers and texts from underground poetry journals in “Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Issue #10” at White Columns, a show organized by Thurston Moore, Byron Coley and Eva Prinz. —
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• — Chickens ‘one-up’ humans in ability to see color —
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• — A dispute with Borges’s estate has left works he produced with the translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni in publishing limbo —
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• — “Learning to Write the MFA Poem” [by Nin Andrews] —
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• — Beware of Fake Awards —
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• — John Ashbery Visits, Presents His Poetry —
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• — Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Intricacies of Black Lives, Dies at 73 New York Times —
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• — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – join Rachelle as she talks to Ruth Forman A Poetry for the People alum, Ruth Forman is an award-winning young writer and filmmaker. Her first book of poetry, We Are The Young Magicians, won the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. In its starred and boxed review, Booklist said, “Ruth Forman[’s]… poems are alive and kicking; they pound and pulse with a hard-won sense of self, beauty, femininity, strength and righteous indignation.” Renaissance, Ruth Forman’s second book, is written with the same irrepressible voice. A graduate of UC Berkeley and the famed USC film school, Ms Forman works to inspire others with the power and magic of language, frequently collaborating on music and film projects, and providing readings and workshops to a wide variety of audiences. She most recently received the 2001 Durfee Artist Fellowship to continue work on Mama John, her first novel, as well as a third volume of poetry. [mp3] —
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• — Margo Jefferson Reminisces about Langston Hughes [mp3] —
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• — This program is devoted to two classic tales of terror. We begin with Bram Stoker’s “Dracula’s Guest,” which almost makes you hear the sound of the wolves on the windswept moor, as delivered by the regular performer on television’s “Daily Show,” Aasif Mandvi. Second, a privileged aristocracy can’t cheat death in this chiller by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death.” The reader is Fionnula Flanagan. [mp3] —
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• — Joe Milford Hosts Patrick Lawler: Feeding the Fear of the Earth is out on Many Mountains Moving Press. Patrick Lawler’s two earlier collections of poetry are: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (U of Georgia Press) and reading a burning book (Basfal Books). He has been awarded fellowships by the NY State Foundation for the Arts, the NEA, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. In addition to being an Associate Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where he teaches Environmental Writing and Nature Literature, he teaches creative writing at Onondoga Community College. He is also part of the Creative Writing Program at LeMoyne College, where he teaches creative writing, playwriting, and writing for performance. [mp3] —
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• — Joe Milford Hosts Ted Mathys: Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils, forthcoming from Coffee House Press, and Forge, from the same publisher. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in such venues as American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and Jubilat. His work has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, and Verse, 1994 – 2004: The Second Decade, as well as translated into Italian for La nuova poesia Americana: New York. Originally from Ohio, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Berlin, and New York and currently studies international affairs at Tufts University in Boston. [mp3] —
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• — Joe Milford Hosts Jerry Williams: With breakup and divorce rates so high in the United States, who wouldn’t want to read an eclectic volume of poems on the subject? Therapeutic and transformative, edgy yet sincere, enlightening, wideranging, female and male, gay and straight, innocent and guilty, It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Breakup incorporates work from as many different perspectives as possible in order to explore the exquisite pain of heartbreak. Such top-shelf contributors as National Book Award finalist Kim Addonizio, bestselling author Denis Johnson, former poet laureate Mark Strand, Edward Hirsch, Maxine Kumin, David Lehman, and many others proudly offer up their wisdom on the various pains (and humors) of heartbreak. In this stunning collection, readers will not find false hope, but the real hope of genuine sympathy in love, hate, fury, and recuperation. [mp3] —
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• — Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay personified the life of a liberated, bohemian poet in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. [mp3] —
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• — PBS: Former Maryland poet laureate and National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton died Saturday at age 73 after a long battle with cancer. [mp3] —
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• — Join Beth Chang As She reviews E.E. Cummings Erotic Poems & Honor Comes Hard Wrintings from The California Prison System Honor Yard Edited by Luis J Rodriguez & Lucinda Thomas Prison writing has a long and illustrious history in the United States – home of the modern correctional system. In the first decade of the 21st century, this country also garnered the distinction of having more prisoners per capita than any other nation in the world. We need to hear from the incarcerated writings of incarcerated men and women. The largest state prison system is in California with some 175,000 people behind bars in close to 35 facilities. Yet the only approved Honor Yard in the Department of Corrections is at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster, California. These are the men that despite often-horrendous crimes – many are lifers, with a few going on three decades – have proven their capacity to dream, to create, to write, to change. From poems, to stories, to novel excerpts, to reportage, to personal essays – and a few drawings – “Honor Comes Hard” depicts what can happen to people who are given, as Clarence Darrow expressed many years ago, ‘a chance to live’. The work is drawn from writing classes that Lucinda Thomas helped organize in the Honor Yard over several years, and from workshops conducted by Luis J. Rodriguez on most Sundays, for eight hours a day, through eight months in 2007-2008. [mp3] —
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• — Join Rafael and Brett-Candace as she talks Erica Miriam Fabri – Erica Miriam Fabri is the author of “Dialect of a Skirt,” a collection of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press (November 2009). She is a writer and performer and a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and received her MFA in Poetry from The New School. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including: New York Quarterly, Texas Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Hanging Loose Magazine, Good Foot Magazine, Paper Street and more. She has performed and facilitated workshops and seminars at: Cooper Union School of the Arts, New York University, Columbia University, Penn State University, The Brooklyn Public Library, Poet’s House, The Fortune Society, The Robin Hood Foundation, and the PEN Prison Writing Program. She has worked on projects as a writer, editor and performance director for The New York Knicks, HBO and Nickelodeon Television. [mp3] —
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• — Joe Milford Show | Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils, forthcoming from Coffee House Press, and Forge, from the same publisher. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in such venues as American Poetry Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and Jubilat. His work has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: the First Nine Years, and Verse, 1994 – 2004: The Second Decade, as well as translated into Italian for La nuova poesia Americana: New York. Originally from Ohio, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Berlin, and New York and currently studies international affairs at Tufts University in Boston. [mp3] —
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• — Lucille Clifton, Reading, 21 May 1996 video —
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• — “Hole” is from Naomi Ayala’s “This Side of Early” (Curbstone Press, 2008). Her first collection, “Wild Animals on the Moon,” was published in 1997, and a third is forthcoming. She lives in Washington, D.C., and works as an education consultant, translator and teacher. [mp3] —
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• — Lucille Clifton with Quincy Troupe, Conversation, 21 May 1996 from Lannan Foundation video —
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• — Willie Perdomo riffs on discovering the work of Hughes for the first time, as part of PEN’s Tribute to Langston Hughes. [mp3] —
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• — The Expatriates By Anne Sexton from Poem of the Day [mp3] —
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• — The Poetry Show: Friends from Cabrillo College honor the departed poet Jeff Towle [mp3] —
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• — Poetry from In Celebration of the Muse, hosted by Susan Freeman [mp3] —
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• — rules grammar change onion radio news [mp3] —
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• — Archival recordings of poet Anne Sexton, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1960. [mp3] —
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Title: Coleman Barks Poetry Reading
Location: APSU, Clarksville – Morgan University Center, Room 303
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Description: Coleman Barks will read from his translations of Rumi. Time to be announced.

Date: 2010-03-04

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Title: Poetry Radio Show: Difficult Listening
Location: Radio Free Nashville 107.1 or streaming audio
Link out: Click here
Description: Poetry Radio Show Difficult Listening with David Harris
Start Time: 10:00am
Date: February 21, 2010

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Title: Poetry Open Mike @ Springwater
Location: 115 27th Ave N
Link out: Click here
Description: Free Open Mic Poetry night @ Springwater Supper Club every Wednesday from 8pm to 10pm.

Springwater is a “21 and Over” establishment.
Start Time: 8pm
Date: February 24, 2010
End Time: 10pm

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• — Lucille Clifton, one-time poet laureate of Md., dies at 73 —
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• — A last volume of verse by Seattle poet Crysta Casey tops this week’s list of books of local interest. —
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• — Valentine’s Day poetry lights up Edinburgh Castle rock —
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• — I Robot Poetry I- Robot Poetry Movieola Shorts: Animation —
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• — The Winter of Our Self-Doubt: Writing, Solitude, and Companionship —
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• — Breaking through a restrictive form —
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• — Will couplets be a thing of the past for our children? —
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• — Book-lover Simon buys Kirkus Reviews —
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• — CT Review keeps the literary arts in print —
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• — Patti Smith’s work explores the deep emotions of art, love and creativity —
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• — Hirsch devotes an entire chapter to describing Mays’s famous catch of a long fly ball during the 1954 World Series, a play that “evokes the awe and wonder’’ of Mays’s skills. —
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• — Saudi poet is first woman to reach Million’s Poet TV competition semi-finals —
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• — Valentine’s love poetry brings a hot rush of blood to the cheeks —
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• — A bomb in her bosom: Emily Dickinson’s secret life —
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• — On Poetry: Sad valentine, still beloved —
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• — Starting Today-100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days —
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• — What can you do to increase your chances of kaholo-stepping your editor into submission? —
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• — On Chapbooks: Greta Goetz’s “Dendrochronology —
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• — A literary outsider known for compact verse that marries humor and insight, Ryan talks with Chapter 16 about her work and the experience of being the nation’s designated poet. She will give a reading at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville on February 16 at 7 p.m. at the University Center Auditorium. —
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• — Gay Poetry, Not Mormon Prayer, in Utah – Advocate.com —
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• — Why the Future of Poetry is Safe —
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• — I think poetry is important because it helps convey the parts of the medical experience that don’t make it into textbooks. —
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• — Inside Somalia: Where poetry is revered —
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• — This version of the “Odyssey” claims to be based on fragmented narratives unearthed from an ancient rubbish mound. —
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• — Three poems by Tato Laviera, whose work bridges New York and Puerto Rico, English and Spanish. —
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• — Hobble Creek Review Issue 10 is now live! —
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• — … Can New Yorker Poets Write About Anything Besides Poetry? —
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• — Poet published black authors no one else would —
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• — Weekly Poem: ‘Those Winter Sundays’ | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Robert Hayden was the first black poet to be chosen as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. —
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• — Beethoven once dedicated a sonata to a half-African musician then revoked the dedication. Why? In her book-length poem, Rita Dove attempts an imaginative historical reconstruction of what happened. —
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• — The Blood-Jet Writing Hour hosted by Rachelle Cruz – Join Rachelle as she talks to Dick Lourie Dick Lourie is a poet and blues saxophone player whose most recent book of poems, If the Delta Was the Sea (Hanging Loose 2009), is the product of both professions. Focusing on Clarksdale, a small city in the Mississippi Delta, this collection draws on oral histories and interviews Lourie conducted with Clarksdale residents, as they tell of their own lives, the town’s history, and racial relations today, along with Lourie’s experiences playing blues with local musicians in the city’s juke joints and annual festivals. If the Delta Was the Sea is Lourie’s seventh book of poetry. His previous works include Ghost Radio (1998), Anima (1980), and Stumbling (1973). Dick Lourie’s readings feature a lively blend of music and poetry, interweaving the spoken word with music recorded by his blues band and live performance on his sax. —
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