Poetry News Archives

Priscilla McGee said her life took a sharp turn in the right direction 11 years ago.

Singer Alicia Keys has won over fans with her music but now the Grammy-winning R&B star is hoping to uplift them by launching her own jewelry collection inscribed with inspirational messages.

David Seaborg said his birthday is meaningful in a couple of ways, beginning with the story told to him about the day he was born.

Leave your exposition at the door. Enter instead with a naked statement. http://images.morris.com/images/athens/mdControlled/cms/2009/11/23/528160112.jpg David Manning Aralee Strange will host an open poetry reading Dec.

I've been in Wilmington since 1981, and except for a stint studying at St. Andrews College , and earning my MFA in creative writing/poetry at Bowling Green State University , I've been here continously since.

Associated Press Writer= When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend.

A student from New Jersey who leads weekly poetry classes at a maximum-security prison is among 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2010.

Staff photo by Rob Swystun -- Carro Haight, left, and Richard Spenst, centre, provide the beat while Kody Haight raps a poem that he and Carro wrote during Rappin' Poets at Portage la Prairie Regional Library Friday.

Heritage Key Short article about love and sex in Amarna poetry as presented by Vincent Tobin at the recent Toronto conference.

Approximately 85 people gathered on Lanier County property Sunday night to hear words of poetry.

BOOK REVIEW / Poetry lovers tricked by a drowned manuscript: Samarkand - Amin Maalouf, Tr.

Topekan Peg Penry has just published her fifth book of poetry, this one a collection of religious verse she has written through the years.

A DYSLEXIC youngster has won first prize in a national poetry competition. Brigid Davidson, from Chipping Norton, won first place in the Charley Boorman Poetry Competition, organised by Dyslexia Action as part of Dyslexia Awareness Week.

Next week, the 12-time Grammy Award-winning songstress will introduce a jewelry collection called The Barber's Daughters.

Steven Berkoff is best known for his work in the theatre as a writer, director and performer.

Big Sur poet and artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld can often be found on the cliffs of Big Sur reading poetry to a resident condor.

The Poetry Society of New Hampshire is sponsoring two contests for New Hampshire students, one for Grades 1 - 8 and one for High School.

About once a month, we'll ask two booksellers a ' one independent and one chain a ' for current best-sellers. The specific booksellers will change every month.

A new site designed for young writers, YARN will debut this winter, and to kick the site off with a bang, they're asking for input from teens with a poetry contest inspired by New Moon: Theme of poem: The Moon Deadline: Nov.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE The poetry of Allama Muhammad Iqbal resounded in the Government College University on Monday as the varsity's music society held an event to pay tribute to the national poet.

YOUNGSTERS dressed up as old and new nursery rhyme characters to round off a special week.

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A lifetime of scholarship meets acerbic wit in "Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie" the newest volume of poetry from local writer Philip Appleman.

Asghar Wajahat's "Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya O Janmyai Nai", presented by SRC Repertory at its auditorium this past week, is a tour de force.

PATRICK McManus from Our Lady Queen of Peace, Dunmurry is celebrating not only his overall win in the inaugural McIntyre Poetry Awards, but Patrick can now proudly view his winning poem alongside other finalists in the all new publication 'Primary Poetry for All' which has just gone on sale at Ireland's leading bookstore Eason.

A.E. Stallings is an author of a poem entitled "Sine Qua Non." The title is in Latin, and translates to "without which not" which means something that is indispensible, necessary.

Another good night at Poetry at theGRV on Sunday evening. Each poet was distinctive - from Morgan Downie and his island poems to Tessa Ransford, who read a miscellany of work from several decades, to Robert Alan Jamieson, whose commentary on 'the language question', illustrated starkly in the poems, made for a thought provoking and memorable set.

Like Fiona Farrell, Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland courtesy of the Rathcoola Fellowship, and like Farrell, she has produced a superb new collection of poems that feed off the Irish experience.

The Beat Generation poets got co-opted by the mainstream so quickly back in the '50s that it evidently made Allen Ginsberg's hair frizz up and fall out.

Spoken word events are so prolific in the Pioneer Valley and beyond, all you need to do is flip over one of the turning leaves and you'll find a poem.

In this Thursday Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Iranian film director Hana Makhmalbaf protests as she arrives at a movie theater holding a banner against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and a portrait of Neda Agha Soltan, a woman who was killed in a Tehran protest, at the 57th Film Festival in San Sebastian, northern Spain.

With the handover of the laureateship, the Oxford poetry professorship debacle, the 30th anniversary of Radio 4's Poetry Please and a major promotion on BBC television, poetry has been much in the news this year.

November 12, 2009 - Denihan Hospitality Group announced today the official grand opening of the Upper East Side's newest luxury hotel re-creation, The Surrey.

Robert Louis Stevenson's works, including the novels Treasure Island and Kidnapped, have been put online for people to read for free in an archiving project.

The long awaited CD " Double Focus " by the Tanzanian poet and musician Ras Nas aka Nasibu Mwanukuzi is set for release in Oslo, Norway, in November this year.

Do you want to write a poem but you can't think of anything to write about? Staring at the blank screen of the blank page is not a fun way to fill in your time.

Poet Denise Duhamel, winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, will read her poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Saturday, Nov.

". . . a passion joined to courtesy and art/ which has the quality of something made,/ like a good fiddle, like the rose's scent,/ like a rose window or the firmament." Richard Wilbur will read from his works at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday in St.

Poets lined up on Stokes Hill Wharf, ready to put their works in a bag set to sail Australia's waters are filled with the expressive passion; stories of love, memories, and whimsical notes.

Thursday, 12 November 2009, 1:19 pm Press Release: UCOL Visitors to Wanganui's Saturday market are likely to notice something colourfully cultural underfoot.

Sex, booze and poetry in the Restoration-era 17th century might have been almost as heady as the 1960s combination of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

In literature, artistic merit is distinguished between "sentiment" and "sentimentality." The word "sentiment" refers to the emotional import of a passage as distinguished by chosen words.

AT 11am on November 11, 1919, the nation joined together at the request of King George the Fifth in a two-minute silence to remember the fallen of the Great War that had ended a year before.

The inventor of arguably the world's most infamous machine-gun wanted to be a poet in his youth, he has revealed.

Rihanna, one of Glamour's Women of the Year honorees, graces the magazine's December cover.

The sublime intelligence of Japanese life is traditionally encapsulated in the highly compressed poetry called the haiku , one that doesn't allow for words that are not filled with meaning.

Military historian claiming that 'found' poem published in the Guardian makes unfair use of his work has 'got the wrong end of the stick', says former poet laureate 'I was absolutely clear about what was involved in the process' ... Andrew Motion.

Libros Libertad Publishing in Surrey announces the publication of longtime Courtenay resident Ilya Tourtidis' third book of poetry, The Path of Descent and Devotion.

Sue Walker, Poet Laureate of Alabama, gives instructions on writing Wednesday, Oct.

THE hunt is on for someone with a passion for verse to potentially become Oxford's first Poet Laureate.

Sir Andrew Motion has been accused of "shameless burglary" by a military historian whose research he lifted and put into a poem about shell-shock for Remembrance Sunday.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 From Tom Waits to zombies Add a comment Los Angeles poet Rob Sturma pulls a lot from music: His rhythms sometimes pulled from hip-hop, his lyrics sometimes sporting transparent influences from the likes of Tom Waits.

Michael Sesling has been writing about his daily commute on the C line - in poetry.

Confessional poetry gives you a very personal peek into the writer's life, and sometimes such details are unflattering to the writer and/or uncomfortable for the reader.

Editorial Ultramar, the Miami-based publishing division of the non-profit Hispanic Events, Inc., will launch "La Ciudad de la Unidad Posible, Seleccion Poetica de Miami" , a book featuring more than 100 Spanish-language poems by 32 Hispanic writers.

Last month I listened with special attention to Dona Stein's excellent "The Poetry Show" on KFRC-FM in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Basim al-Dafaie, an Iraqi poet, was optimistic when he saw the restoration of art and poetry festival in his province of Diyala after four years of turbulence and violence.

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Usama bin Laden after the Sept.

The three books reviewed here are by women writers who confront the world in uncompromised fashion.

The programme may have been entitled "A Poetry Evening", but the performances staged by the students of Doha College on Wednesday proved to be a cabaret-style mix of songs, music and dance as well as plenty of poetry.

Poem and Drawing by Amitabh Mitra An orthopaedic surgeon in a busy hospital in East London, South Africa, I actually belong to Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, its long summers and hectic politics.

Campion's Bright Star is a beautifully realised look at the relationship between the poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawn that generally engages without delivering the emotional wallop you may have been anticipating.

Her mermaid frame, merely a lure, It was her essence that showered us With passion to live fully now, Her exuberance for life, the gift.

Nearly 20 top local and regional artists will give poetry readings at "Language of the Soul," the upcoming 26th annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival.

Community Arts of Elmira, 413 Lake St. in Elmira, will host ARTiculation, Poetry Posts Live, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Monday, November 2, 2009 11:04 AM IFOA guest post: Who are you people and why don't you like poetry the rest of the year? Jacob McArthur Mooney E ditor's note: Over the course of the International Festival of Authors, some of the writers in attendance provided guest posts for our blog coverage.

A A 550,000 grant has been awarded to help Cambridge University to buy the personal belongings of First World War soldier, poet and author Siegfried Sassoon.

DHAKA: Bangla Academy held a discussion on the late poet Shamsur Rahman at the academy's seminar hall, in observance of the poet's 80th birth anniversary on November 2. Shamsur Rahman was a leading poet, columnist and journalist of his time.

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Loomis' annual Cowpoke Fall Gathering, a nationally-recognized festival of cowboy poetry and more, is adding Sunday Cowboy Church to its line-up this year.

Visit the East Village, Des Moines bohemian hot spot, this Thursday night, November 5, for an arts classic: the open mic night.

At The Museum Submitted by Windsor Art Center on 2009-11-02.   The second in a series of four Poetry on the Line events will take place on Sunday, Nov.

October 30, 2009, 3:57 PM / Autumn By Adam Zagajewski Autumn is always too early.

The Norman Singers recently announced the seventh annual poetry contest for students in grades 6-12 in the Norman schools.

NOW is your last chance to write a prize-winning poem about Yeovil - " a poem which could win you A 1,000 in a competition aimed at getting more people to write poetry.

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Tightrope Books will launch 'The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009' on Nov. 11 in Toronto.