Poetry By Antonio Machado - Last Night As I Was Sleeping
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of the poets Robert Bly translated.
Archive for February, 2008
ROBERT BLY: Minnesota’s first poet laureate
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
AP news item from St. Paul: Gov. Tim Pawlenty has named Robert Bly Minnesota’s first poet laureate.
EVENT: Ohio River Festival of Books, March 7-8, 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Seventy authors will take part in the fourth Ohio River Festival of Books, March 7-8, at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena Conference Center in Huntington, W.Va.
NOT VANISHED: Refined Savage editor cranks out another issue
Monday, February 25th, 2008
We had feared that maybe poet José Alejandro Peña had vanished, but I discovered he has published four of my poems in the most recent issue of The Refined Savage.
http://trs-pr.com/issue5.htm
POETRY CONTESTS: State and national
Monday, February 25th, 2008Intercepted e-mail from Holly Cross about the WV Poetry Society and National Federation of State Poetry Societies contests:
FELLOWSHIPS FOR YOUNG POETS: News from the Poetry Foundation
Monday, February 25th, 2008Intercepted e-mail from the Poetry Foundation about fellowships for young poets:
VIDEO: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
Sunday, February 24th, 2008At poets.org, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes is the most read poem by readers from West Virginia. This YouTube video was uploaded by Michael, 37. He says he recently returned to college, and is married with two young sons and is president of a telecommunications company. Great work here on this Langston Hughes poem. The poet reads the poem, but first tells how it came to be written.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH VIDEO: Media Talk — Performance by Tampa Poet James Tokley
Friday, February 22nd, 2008This is an awesome video… has been on YouTube since early ‘07 and has received only about 100 hits… deserves more. So enjoy!
BOOK DUE IN OCTOBER: “Hip Hop Speaks to Children”
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008World-renowned poet Nikki Giovanni, poet Oni Lasana and actress/director/producer Val Gray Ward got together in Blacksburg, Va., Monday to do some hip-hop. They mixed in works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Dunbar and others to put together a CD that will accompany a book called “Hip Hop Speaks to Children,” a collection of poems and songs due out in October. What powerful words, those of Dunbar and Brooks!
AUDIO: Poet Sarah Thomas reads “Firefly Fly Away Home”
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Courtesy photo of North Carolina mountains
Sarah Thomas, formerly of French Creek, W.Va., now lives in the North Carolina mountains, and she called in a poem called “Firefly Fly Away Home.”
Enjoy.
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