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HEY, POETRY NOTICES!
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POETRY NEWS!
LINKS TO PERIODICALS, LINKS TO BLOGS. NEWS ABOUT POETRY WORLDWIDE.
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on youtube.com, Kay Ryan reads from her recent collection, "The Niagara River," at the Casa Romantica Reading ...
New US Poet Laureate is a resident of Marin
Kay Ryan was born in California in 1945 and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. She received both a bachelor's and master's degree from UCLA.
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Ryan has published several
collections of poetry, including
The Niagara River
(Grove Press, 2005);
Say Uncle (2000);
Elephant Rocks (1996);
Flamingo Watching (1994),
which was a finalist for both
the Lamont Poetry Selection
and the Lenore Marshall Prize;
Strangely Marked Metal
(1985); and
Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends (1983).
For more information,
try the very informative
Poets.org website
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14 NEW LITERARY MAGAZINES (from Poets and Writers newsletter. Get on it here: www.pw.org;)
Fourteen journals have been added to our database of literary magazines in the past two months, including Scarab, a "literary magazine for mobile devices, like the iPhone, focusing on a fusion of text and sound."
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CALL FOR POETRY
Three local writers are seeking your original poems and stories
(under 700 words long) to publish in “Creative Expressions,”
a publication in the Lake County Record-Bee.
“Creative Expressions” is a unique opportunity for Lake County writers
of all ages to publish original work.
Each issue is edited by three Lake County writers:
Sandra Wade, Lourdes Thuesen and Mary McMillan,
who will solicit and select the work to be published.
If your work is selected, it will appear in the weekend edition
of the newspaper, on page B-1.
Poems and stories of any kind or theme are welcome.
Please send them to mtmcmillan@mac.com in the body of your e-mail.
In the subject line, put “CE Submission.”
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed
Carol Muske-Dukes California’s poet laureate.
More here.....
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Lake County Writers meet from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the Lower Lake Historic Schoolhouse Museum. The group welcomes interested writers of all levels and genres.
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Dear Poets & Friends,
Here's a short list of this month's poetry features in Mendocino County and northern California:
Inland High School Poetry Slam: Tuesday, February 9, 4 pm, Willits, CA
Center Literary Cafe: Bluebird Cafe Writers, Tuesday, February 9, 7 to 9 pm, Healdsburg Senior Center
Poetry, Port, Chocolate & Napkin Art: poets Devreaux Baker, Crawdad Nelson, Jabez Churchill, and Theresa Whitehill Sunday, February 14, Valentine's Day, 4 to 7 pm, Mendocino Hotel, Mendocino, CA
Mendocino Coast Poets Group: Blake More, Saturday, February 13, 7 to 9 pm, Mendocino Hotel Conference Room, Mendocino, CA
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Sharon Doubiago: reading from her newly released "My Father's Love: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl", Friday, February 19, 6:30 pm, Gallery Bookshop, Mendocino, CA
Writers Read: Nancy Cherry, Thursday, February 25, 7 pm, Art Center Ukiah, CA
8th Annual ukiaHaiku festival: accepting submissions until Friday, February 26
California poetry events, see our online calendar:
http://www.coloredhorse.com/WritingPoetry/PoetryEvents/
Thanks,
Theresa
Theresa Whitehill
Poetry, Writing, Letterpress Broadsides
Web Log: Investigative Poetics
Hot off the Press: A Grammar of Longing: Poetry, Theresa Whitehill
Live on the Web: Évora a Doce, a food epiphany |
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