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11 min ago | Berkshire Eagle

Berkshires After Dark: Poetry night at The Parlor

On a scale of 0 to 10, how nervous would you be to get up on stage and perform? On a recent Thursday at the Parlor Caf at 303 Ashland St., shyness took the stage in varying degrees during one of many poetry slams.

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2 hrs ago | The Guardian

Another plagiarism scandal hits poetry community

David R Morgan admits to passing numerous works by other people as his own and says he is 'truly sorry' Cut and paste ... 'Now you can google a line and within seconds if an original poem comes up that's it' Photograph: Sarah Habershon Publishers and magazines have been working to take down poems and suspend sales of collections by David R Morgan ... (more)

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2 hrs ago | News Channel 34

Children's Poetry Day at BU

Binghamton University hosted its 36th annual Poetry and Children Day, Wednesday morning.

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3 hrs ago | Homer Tribune

Equestrian Society hosts varied entertainment

An enthusiastic and appreciative crowd packed Alice's Champagne Palace on Saturday night to enjoy the music, stories and poetry presented by numerous performers for the sixth-annual Cowboy Cabaret.

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4 hrs ago | Honolulu Weekly

The Romance of Sunset

A sort of team anthology, Sunset Inn: Tales from the North Shore is a collection of fiction, poetry and a play published by the Aloha Romance Writers, who admittedly chose-over margaritas and Mexican food-the conceit of a colonial-style seaside inn, described in Patrice Wilson's poem "This Haven" as "white as salt" and "bleached coral in the sea," ... (more)

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4 hrs ago | Honolulu Weekly

Community

In a poetry class I teach at Windward Community College, a student recently did a presentation on coming-out poems and presented her own.

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5 hrs ago | The Recorder

Looking closer

I admitted that the event weighed heavily on my mind. Though we did not dwell long on the events in Boston, the topic remained in the air, threading its subtext into several strands of our conversation.

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Related Topix: Arts, Northampton, MA, Apiculture, Science

6 hrs ago | Hartford Courant

Author Michelle Alexander To Be Honored At Stowe's Big Tent Jubilee

Registration is open for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center's big event, the Stowe Prize Big Tent Jubilee, which will take place on May 30 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on the Stowe Center grounds, 77 Forest St., Hartford.

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Related Topix: Hartford, CT, Color Blindness, Health, Events, Simsbury, CT, Arts

6 hrs ago | Budget Travel

A New England Must-See

Emily Dickinson's home, in Amherst, Mass., offers beautiful grounds and a peek into the life of one of America's greatest writers.

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6 hrs ago | Capital Weekly

Take Heart' poets at Left Bank Books

The downtown Left Bank Books will host a poetry reading with several local poets whose works appear in the new anthology "Take Heart: Poems from Maine" edited by Wesley McNair, Saturday, June 1, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. As the current Maine Poet Laureate, McNair has collected verse from his popular "Take Heart" column, featuring a poem each week in 30 ... (more)

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Related Topix: Arts, Maine, Belfast, ME, Brooks, ME, Stockton-Springs, ME, Freedom, ME

7 hrs ago | MaltaMedia News

Book of Maltese poetry published in the US

'Fl-Ghaqda u s-Sliem' , a collection of Maltese poems, has just been published in the United States.

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8 hrs ago | New Scientist

Long may science continue to inspire poetry

"KEPLER was my North, my South, my East and Westa I thought Kepler would last forever: I was wrong." So lamented astronomer Geoff Marcy on discovering that the space telescope might have spotted its last exoplanet.

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10 hrs ago | BroadwayWorld.com

Mohammad Mashat Educates Readers About Saudi Arabian in New Book

Compelling and fascinating, Bigger than Reality and Less than Fantasy is a meaningful collection of eclectic short stories that depict several facets of the human experience.

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Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, University of Texas at Austin, Arts

14 hrs ago | Goole Today

Selby author and poet nominated for children's writing initiative

AUTHOR: Christina Gabbitas of Leeds Road Selby with illustrations for her new book.

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18 hrs ago | BroadwayWorld.com

Ron Boehm Publishes New Poetry Collection Kaleidoscope View

Author Ron Boehm reflects on a lifetime of rich experiences in his timeless collection of poems, " Kaleidoscope View: Poems About Love and Life " . Written over the course of Boehm's lifetime, the poems in "Kaleidoscope View" offer pearls of wisdom about a variety of topics.

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19 hrs ago | IBerkshires

Rudolf Steiner School Fourth-Graders...

Isabella Kemp, left, Alice McDonald, Tessa Sternal, Lulu Levy, Katherine Humes and Amelia Kemp will have their poetry published in 'Young American Poetry Digest 2013.' GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.

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Tue May 21, 2013

New York Daily News

'Sexy, Edgy Moms' at Babeland

You don't have to be sexy, edgy or even a mom to enjoy Thursday's boozy bookish bash at Babeland.

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Eastern Daily Press

Norfolk's young poets are encouraged to enter competition

Norfolk's young poets are being encouraged to put pen to paper to celebrate the theme of friendship, and judge Prof Anne Osbourne knows the secret to a good poem.

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Cape Gazette

Delaware Poetry Review issue guest edited by Dr. Jeffrey Lamar Coleman

The newest publication of Delaware Poetry Review ranges widely, from the author of 28 books to the first publication by a recent high school graduate.

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Dazzling, unique 'choreopoem'

KNOWN for breaking ground in many areas of contemporary dance, Durban's Flatfoot Dance Company uses the words of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote in its latest production, dubbed a "uniquely visioned choreopoem", History is a Home Address.

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