Editor’s Picks - August 20, 2008: PR in my Inbox
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Editor’s Pick August 18, 2008 -
L&BH Internet Radio Open Mic
August 18th, 2008 by martha cinader mims · No Comments
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 from 8-9:30pm PST. Listen & Be Heard will host its first BlogTalkRadio.com internet radio show with an open mic.
There will be three rounds of open mic. The lightning round (30 seconds) and spotlight round (five minutes) will feature four designated poets who signed the open mic list ahead of time at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe. The third round will be for poets who are listening to call in and share one poem. Hosted by Martha Cinader Mims.
Scheduled to be featured on the 19th are Alicia Jones, Don Hagelberg, Adam Gottschalk and DDE. [Read more →]
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Editor’s Picks August 6, 2008 - Poetry Videos
August 6th, 2008 by martha cinader mims · No Comments
I did a little websurfing to find some interesting poetry videos to get you started looking for stuff you might not have thought was out there. Embedded below is a little video I was featured in awhile back, with pieces of poems from my cd. The links below this video all lead to videos which may take a little while to load. Be patient! I wouldn’t lead you astray. Next week I’ll be on vacation, so look for a new editor’s picks column on August 20, 2008. In the meantime please share your favorite poetry video links in the comments box below! [Read more →]
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July 30, 2008 Live Music and Summertime go together like Birds of a Feather.
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DanceBrazil
Max Pollak and RumbaTap
Friday, August 01, 2008
From 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Central Park SummerStage
Petaluma Summer Music Festival
Dayna Stephens will appear at the San Jose Jazz Festival on Saturday, August 9, at 6pm.
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July 23, 2008 Poetry for Poets and other People
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FULCRUM #6 (730 pages) features unpublished Beckett, Frost, Paz; spotlights “Poetry and Myth,” debate between Kisnella and Warren, translations of Seferis, Vian, Quevedo and much else
Issue # 6 of the acclaimed literary annual, FULCRUM, features previously unpublished and uncollected writing by Samuel Beckett, Robert Frost and Octavio Paz; original scholarship on “Samuel Beckett as Poet” by Christopher Ricks, Eliot Weinberger, Marjorie Perloff and others; a special section on “Poetry and Myth”; a debate between poets John Kinsella and Rosanna Warren; translations of poetry by George Seferis, Boris Vian and Francisco de Quevedo; a great deal of outstanding current poetry and literary criticism; and visual art.
Now out from Salt Publishing: THEATRE by Alison Croggon.
Alison Croggon’s bold new collection, Theatre, uses a range of narratives, fables, monologues and compressed lyrics to examine female identity and the idea of divine experience. Stepping confidently between different registers and a wide range of forms, Croggon’s poetry shows a writer at the height of her powers narrating a female world of folk tales, trials, challenges, transgressions, and mythologies, where rites of passage are both linguistic, spiritual and political, and where persona is stripped back to an essential humility always journeying into fragile and impossibly beautiful worlds.
1945 to the 21st century, with poets ranging from Edwin Denby (b. 1903) to those currently in their twenties. Jeff Hilson, the editor, contributes an introductory essay.
The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel by Doug Holder (Book) in Poetry.
For years that image of the man in a small plastic booth in the fume-filled Midtown Tunnel that connects Queens to Manhattan in NYC haunted me. As a kid traveling into the city from the sheltered, well-manicured lawns of Long Island to the enigmatic, cosmopolitan world of Manhattan, I couldn’t help but wonder about that blue- uniformed lone figure pacing the perimeter of his plastic cage. I think he represented to some extent my fear of the world outside the comforts of my family, and the staid, small town I lived in, Rockville Centre. - Doug Holder
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July 16, 2008 - Internet Opportunities for Creative People
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We’re offering a $20,000 Grand Prize for the best new and creative short video that reflects the American Muslim experience. Everyone in the U.S. is invited to compete, regardless of race or religion, so grab a camera, pick an assignment, read our online tips, and get filming.
http://www.linktv.org/onenation
Culture Unplugged Studios will be launching ‘Green Unplugged’ - the festival where we unite to share our voices, not only as film-makers but culture-makers. The festival will facilitate contemplation, connection & celebration of life, culture & nature through cinema. We invite your green & socially conscious films that bring to light nature’s demand to wake us to our future - an integrated individual and the human society. Share stories that reveal where we come from, our collective journey leading to our present and contemplating the path beyond.
www.cultureunplugged.com
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Editor’s Picks July 9, 2008
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Celebrating Independent Book Publishers
Field of Wanting
By Wanda Phipps · Paperback: 75 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] (2008)· ISBN: 1-934289-04-3
Wanda will be appearing at The Living Theatre in NYC on July 28th. For more
information check out her website: www.mindhoney.com and
www.blazevox.org.
PELICAN DREAMING: POEMS 1959-2008
Poems by Mark Young
Selected and with an Introduction by Thomas Fink
ISBN: 978-0-9794119-5-3
412 pages
Price: $24.00
Release Date: 2008
Distributors: Meritage Press and Lulu at http://www.lulu.com/content/1955266
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