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Our Launch Party @ the Bowery Poetry Club on Friday was a great success! Everyone had a great time, it was fantastic to meet up with old friends and make new ones. Check out the photos to see more!
Jorge Pupo is a professional actor whose work has spanned film, television and theater. Special thanks to Jorge for emceeing our event!
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
Renowned music executive Wong Cook is regarded as one of the prominent leaders in the entertainment industry today. Having over 20 years of experience working in Hollywood, Cook has established herself as a true visionary with dynamic leadership skills whose creative skills and commitment to excellence have enabled her to launch her own empire.
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.
High school students who love to read say that don’t have time because study workload takes away from independent, extracurricular reading.
After all of these years, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is contested in public libraries and classrooms to this day. That this great American novel could ever be suppressed seems unthinkable, what with our current toleration for all manner of pop cultural bilge.
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.
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.









