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It"s coming down to the wire for the several hundred poets across the nation who are gearing up for next week"s National Poetry Slam Finals in Austin, Texas. In Richmond, poets gathered at ComedySportz Improv Theater for a practice slam Sunday night. On Monday night in Kalamazoo (yes, Kalamazoo!), the Kalamazoo Slam Team hosted a special show to raise money for their ...
As often as I"ve mourned the loss of poetry venues here, noting how sad it makes me to click a link to a poetry journal or review or ezine or other publication, only to find that the editors have stopped publication, this announcement brings me a great deal of pleasure. Not only do I get to announce the birth of a new review ...
Last Friday, I wrote about Rick Lupert"s Poetry Superhighway, where Rick Lupert has been featuring some of the best poets in the world since 1997. At the time, I told you about his Great Poetry Exchange, and the Great E-book Free For All. I didn"t mention the annual Poetry Superhighway Poetry Contest, which has been running since 1998 for one reason ...
A short post at Stick Poet Super Hero led me to this story written by a woman living in the midst of the bombings in Beirut. Headlined Bombs, Rubble and Poets, it is written in prosaic, matter-of-fact language that blunts the impact of the world it presents - which makes it all the more horrifying when you realize ...
Double-scoop on the great poetry places on the web this week. Rick Lupert has been hosting one of the longest running poetry readings in the LA area since 1994 (That would be the Cobalt Cafe for those of you close enough to drop in on a Tuesday night), and building and maintaining the Poetry Superhighway since 1997. PSH is one of the ...
The blog I"m featuring this week is different - and this profile and interview will be different as well. On June 28, blogger Michelle EO posted : For every brave soldier that lost life in the war in Iraq, we will write a poem. Thus starts Operation Poem, a log with a heartfelt purpose - to honor servicemen who lose their lives in Iraq. ...
Think you know everything there is to know about Shakespeare? Find yourself looking for that perfect Bard quote? Ever have a need to settle a barroom argument about who said what in which Shakespeare play? If so, then Google has just made it easier for you. Google"s infamous Books project has completed scanning in the complete works of Shakespeare. You can now ...
Poking through the places where I find news, poetry and interesting things on which to follow up, it occurred to me that I haven"t shared the Interboard Poetry Community as the resource most likely to drag me in for hours and make me late for everything else in my life. Rus Bowden introduced me to it a while back, when we talked ...
Robert Frost may be one of the most well-loved American poets of any era. A new exhibit at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in Vermont takes a look at a different side of the poet. Assembled by Frost scholar, Donald Sheehy, the exhibit features 11 key women in Robert Frost"s life. Those women include his mother, his wife Elinor, his sister, his daughters, writer Dorothy Canfield Fisher, ...
The Guardian, a UK newspaper, reported Saturday that Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney"s 12th book, District and Circle, has made the short list for the prestigious Forward Poetry Prize. Established in 1991, the Forward Poetry Prize is awarded each year to the year"s Best Collection, Best Single Poem and Best First Collection. Its £10,000 prize is one of the ...
