The Bowery Poetry Club
Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 7:30PM
featuring
Tara Betts, Timothy Liu, Eileen Myles, Angelo Nikolopoulos,
Nancy Mercado, Jeffrey Perkins, Devi Lockwood,
Sue Sinclair, Jon Sands & Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
with special guest David Henderson
Ekphrasis: A Conversation Between Poets & Artists: When a writer interprets a work of visual art and then creates a narrative in verse form that represents his or her reaction to that work. DEADLINE: August 15, 2010
The German book publishers’ association has awarded Israeli author and peace activist David Grossman one of Europe’s most prestigious prizes in the arts, along with a 25,000-euro endowment.
Dr. Tony Medina, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University wins 2010 Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers for his latest children’s book, I AND I, BOB MARLEY.
Anthony Carranza interview Nobel Prize nominee Nestor Amarilla in a two-part interview about being nominated for Literature.
Rainer Moritz, the program director at the Literaturhaus Hamburg, says literature houses in Germany are less commercially motivated . . . they are a gathering place, where authors, translators, journalists and critics can meet. Moritz is formed an umbrella organization, Literaturhaus.net, of 11 literature houses across Germany and Austria . . . an idea that is spreading throughout Europe.
Sometimes we read things other than the Internet. Especially, when those things (aka books) make us look smart and have cool cocktails in them. This summer put down your beer and get creative with your boozy, dark passenger. Drunkenly slurring with a Pabst makes you pathetic, but slurring with a gin gimlet makes you genteel.
German author Peter Wawerzinek received this year’s Ingeborg Bachmann prize, one of the most important in German literature.
“A poet,” James Dickey once said, “is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” Should memoirs of illness be held to the same standards as other writing? Or do reader and writer form a different relationship when the health crisis of one becomes the theater of the other, a relationship in which a reviewer has very little business meddling?
M. K. Kanimozhi, a Tamil poet, journalist and politician n India, believes literary works that bring in social transformation alone will transcend generations and remain popular.
The playwright, Sir Tom Stoppard, speaks of how technology is taking over the lives of kids, leaving them with no opportunity to read or go through literature, which is the real treasure.
High school students who love to read say that don’t have time because study workload takes away from independent, extracurricular reading.
Those who think that Twitter is killing the attention span of readers should check out one of today’s big trending topics: “Books That Changed My World” (or, in twitter-speak, #booksthatchangedmyworld).
John Matteson discusses Frederick Douglass’ proficiency in two genres: the oration and the autobiography, and why his works are so great.
Prisons have nearly always been spaces of constraint, especially for writers. That freedom, coercion, imagination, and resistance are viscerally evoked in texts concerned with incarceration ranging from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, and in Russian, Italian, Persian, and countless other languages, suggests that there is a coherent genre of prison writing extending across world literature, albeit largely pertaining to the modern period.
The ACRL Research, Planning and Review Committee, a component of the Research Coordinating Committee, develops a list of the top ten trends that are affecting academic libraries now and in the near future.
Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker has won the €100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his first novel Boven is het stil, translated into English as The Twin.
Sharing thoughts on Arabic literature in English: does it lose something in the translation?
Native American former school-teacher and college professor, Debbie Reese, reports on the 37th annual conference of the Children’s Literature Association in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Travis Scholl explains why he is teaching the bible as literature, and its connection top Shakespeare ans Psalm 46.
A NEW series of literary bus tours have been announced by Academi, the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency for Wales, that will travel to disparate towns so people can learn more about Wales’ literary heritage.
The antidote to a world drowning in data is good art and nuanced perspectives . . .
Nobel winner, José Saramago, the first Portuguese writer to win for literature, leaves behind a life’s work that is both classical and controversial.
Colombian writer Juan Sebastian Cardenas, who has just published “Zumbido” (Buzz) in Spain, a narrative that makes a singular descent into various hells, believes that Colombian literature “is minor. It exudes optimism, and the sooner it accepts that characteristic, the richer and more interesting it will be.”
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