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Afaa Michael Weaver @ APSU has been canceled because of the recent snow and ice — more.

• — Distinguished Poet and Playwright Afaa Weaver to Read at APSU —
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• — bpNichol Lane and the place of poetry —
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• — Allen Tate’s wife, Helen, remembers her late husband and discusses his role in the Fugitive Movement —
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• — It must have tickled Plath, particularly, to be mentioned in the same breath as Marianne Moore who snubbed Plath on a number of occasions —
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• — I couldn’t ask for better news to kick off a year: I’ve learned that my poem “Unit of Measure” has been selected by guest editor Amy Gerstler for inclusion in the 2010 Best American Poetry anthology, which will be published in the fall.
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• — A fiercely independent and seriously spunky grand dame of quick wit, tremendous wisdom and enormous talent, poet Leila (Danny) Pepper passed away New Year’s Eve at the age of 96 —
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• — There’s a reason we don’t hear “T-Will” attached to Ted Williams; it just sounds silly. —
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• — Seeking Establishment recognition of Beat hangout’s importance —
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• — Writers’ groups lobby US Congress against Google books deal —
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• — Serkis uncovers Ian Dury’s poetic depths —
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• — The editors, Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz, are pleased to announce a call for submissions for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. —
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• — Literature After Taboo —
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• — School Library Book Returned 73 Years Overdue —
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• — North Bay poets offer thoughts on end of ‘aughties’ — in Haiku form —
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• — One is a series of poems examining some Japanese myths as well as female identity in anime. There are some really wonderful archetypes in Japanese mythology you just don’t see in Western folk tales – avenging/rescuing sisters is a common trope, as are disappearing/transforming wives. —
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• — MARGARET RAAB: In Memoriam —
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• — His literary influences include many classic poets such as Walt Whitman, Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, Walcott, WS Graham, WS Merwin and Geoffrey Hill. —
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• — Anne Sexton reads “The Starry Night” you tube —
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• — premature babies who are exposed to music by 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gain weight faster — and therefore become stronger — than those who don’t —
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• — Schools are failing to stretch pupils after resorting to football chants and rap lyrics to get them interested in poetry, according to Sir Andrew Motion —
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• — A group of writers and artists are creating a unique calligraphy work with 1000 poems printed on a 1000-meter-long piece of silk —
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• — Poetry Picks — The Best Books of 2009 —
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• — James Tate at the Key West Literary Seminar. [mp3] —
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Title: Shakespeare Allowed!
Location: Nashville Public Library Downtown
Link out: Click here
Description: The Merry Wives of Windsor

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.
Start Time: 1pm
Date: 2009-12-12
End Time: 4pm

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Title: Bread & Words annual benefit reading and dinner
Location: APSU, Clarksville
Link out: Click here
Description: Dinner at 6:00 pm

Reading by APSU faculty, graduate students, and special guests

7 pm, November 24, 2009
Morgan University Center Ballroom
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-11-24

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Title: Poetry Meetup
Location: City Limits Bakery & Cafe, Bellevue
Link out: Click here
Description: City Limits Bakery & Cafe
361 Clofton Dr
Nashville TN 37221
(615) 646-0062
Start Time: 2pm
Date: 2009-11-21

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Title: Shakespeare Allowed!
Location: Nashville Public Library Downtown
Link out: Click here
Description: The Merchant of Venice

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.
Start Time: 1pm
Date: 2009-11-14
End Time: 16:00

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Title: Phillis Levin Reading
Location: APSU, Clarksville
Link out: Click here
Description: Levin is completing her fifth collection of poems and is working on the libretto for an opera. She is a professor of English and poet-in-residence at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-10-29

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Title: Kate Gleason Reading
Location: APSU, Clarksville
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Description: winner of the 2008 Zone 3 First Book Award for Poetry will read from her new book Measuring the Dark

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-10-29

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Title: Southern Festival of Books
Location: Legislative Plaza
Link out: Click here
Start Date: 2009-10-09
End Date: 2009-10-11

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Title: Shakespeare Allowed!
Location: Nashville Public Library Downtown
Link out: Click here
Description: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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.
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2009-10-03
End Time: 16:00

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Title: Ander Monson Reading
Location: APSU, Clarksville
Link out: Click here
Description: Ander Monson is the author of three books: Neck Deep and Other Predicaments: Essays (Graywolf Press, February 2007), Other Electricities (a sort-of novel, Sarabande Books, 2005), and Vacationland (poems, Tupelo Press, 2005). Visit his web site at
http://www.otherelectricities.com/neckdeep
Start Time: 7:00pm
Date: 2009-09-15

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• — POETRY AND ORIGINS. February 13, 1921, Sunday —
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• — These stand among the most uncharacteristic lines that Stevens ever published. —
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• — Charlie Parker, the Rimbaud of Jazz —
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• — Art/Poem: Magic Telephone —
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• — ‘Nothing Remains of Love’ By WILLIAM LOGAN In her latest poems, Louise Glück adopts a looser style while hewing to her signature desolation. and LA Times review —
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• — 5-7-5 Isn’t Just the Area Code for Las Cruces —
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• — In World of Songwriting, at the Top of the Pack —
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• — Linda Pastan from How a Poem Happens —
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• — Poet is Fringe’s king of comedy —
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• — In two thousand five, he published a collection of stories and poems. It is called “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life.” —
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• — Rhyming recipes: the ‘food laureates’ —
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• — Poet attracted to the themes of separation, distance and history —
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• — The Living Dead Rise Again: Nashville Zombie Walk Sept 19 —
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• — Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or… —
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• — Steel mills experience feeds professor’s poetry —
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• — What Your Choice of Words Says about Your Personality —
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Title: Poetry Open Mike @ Landmark Booksellers
Location: Franklin (Downtown)
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Description: Poetry Open-Mic, 7:00 Victoria Clausi
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-08-27
End Time: 20:00

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