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Poetry Slams: Performance Plus Art

Performance artists of all types enjoy the awe and the kudos coming their way from the general public. In return, any concert or performance turns livelier with audience participation. During the recent decades, more and more musicians--e [...]

Posted On : Jul, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

The Floating Man

In this experiment of Ibn-Sina, I must float for as long as it takes to forget the sweating desert And the sifting streets of Hamadan. No part of me may touch another body part. My hands are spread so wide, each finger Thinks it is [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Poetry in Pros: Breaking down the six-man rotation

The Chicago White Sox are about to embark on a pitching odyssey that no team has ever taken, a sustained engagement with a six-man starting rotation. Here’s how the rotation will break down over the course of the experiment, outline [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

The human palimpsest's prayer

I want to stop being so human, low to the ground, dragging this bag of bones around, udder with nothing left to give, no memory of grip pull twist squeeze, how it lets the inside out. I want to stop making my way through the da [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Manifesto

When I dream, I vote. Exercise my rights as citizen of the dream state to terra-form the future. Work to abolish the most abject poverty of all— that of knowing only one world. Activists, lovers— [...]

Posted On : Mar, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Manzanita Poetry Workshop Features Oregon Poet Laureate Paul...

Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen and three other accomplished poets will hold poetry workshops on Saturday, March 19. These workshops are sponsored by the Manzanita Writers' Series and feature four, one-hour long workshops throu [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Omani Poetry Festival opens

Minister of Diwan of Royal Court Sayyid Ali bin Hamoud bin Ali Al Busaidi opened the Seventh Omani Poetry Festival here on Saturday. Forty poems in ‘traditional’ category and 32 ‘classical’ poems will be recited a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Name Gourmand

Arrow-arum, water purslane, and false pimpernel are new to me now that I live on a riverine tidal marsh. These plants grow about or in the cove where, out with the tide and in, the common mummichog and banded killifish [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

The Book of the Dead Man (The Numbers)

The dead man is outside the pale. The dead man makes space for himself the way a soccer player moves to the place to be next. The angles shift, the pace slows and picks up, it matters more, then less, then more, then less,  &n [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

81st birth anniversary of poet Shamsur Rahman

81st birth anniversary of poet Shamsur Rahman

The 81st birth anniversary of poet, columnist and journalist late Shamsur Rahman is being observed on Saturday recalling the fond memory of the great litterateur. The poet's family is remembering him in a family programme at the [...]

Posted On : Oct, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Books: The Gentleman Poet

“While touring the island of Bermuda,  I learned about the Shakespearean legend that a ship that sank off its shore in  1609  inspired Shakespeare to write  The Tempest, ”  says  The Gentleman Po [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Poetry Slams: Performance Plus Art

Performance artists of all types enjoy the awe and the kudos coming their way from the general public. In return, any concert or performance turns livelier with audience participation. During the recent decades, more and more musicians-- [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Poetry Slams: Performance Plus Art

Performance artists of all types enjoy the awe and the kudos coming their way from the general public. In return, any concert or performance turns livelier with audience participation. During the recent decades, more and more musicians-- [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Poem of the week - Weeping Woman by Grace Nichols

Poem of the week - Weeping Woman by Grace Nichols

The surrealist photographer Dora Maar was the subject of many paintings by her lover, Pablo Picasso. Tate Modern's Weeping Woman is one of an eponymous series of jagged, vibrant, howlingly anguished portraits. It was during a residency a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2009 | Comments : 0
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