Sbsn Web News Writing & Poetry

	Writing & Poetry

Poetry needs to be protected from agendas - Clifton

submitted by sbsn 63 days ago (via rss.feedsportal.com)

WRITING IS in danger of being overvalued at the moment, Irelands new Professor of Poetry, Dublin-born poet Harry Clifton said last night.

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

Prose memoir and poetry of place celebrated at book launch Tuesday

submitted by sbsn 63 days ago (via bclocalnews.com)

Two Salt Spring writers, new and old, come together at ArtSpring on Tuesday, July 6 at 7 p.m. to launch new books.

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

Discovery Park Dean retires

submitted by sbsn 63 days ago (via willcoxrangenews.com)

Folks may wonder what writing, fishing and selling baroque jewelry have in common, and Harry Swanson has an answer - they are activities he wants to pursue after he retires as dean of the Discovery Park Campus of the Eastern Arizona College.

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

I love my country, I hate my country

submitted by sbsn 63 days ago (via thesundaily.com)

Award-winning Singaporean playwright Alfian Saat talks to BISSME S about writing and his love-hate relationship with his homeland. What are some of the challenges you face as a writer in Singapore?

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

Evolution of the high school poet

submitted by sbsn 63 days ago (via csmonitor.com)

A network of after-school programs draws teens into the world of spoken-word and slam poetry.

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

Co-owner of Prairie Lights has passion for poetry

submitted by sbsn 63 days ago (via dailyiowan.com)

It can be a little intimidating to be surrounded by the works of famous and accomplished poets day in and day out, but for Jan Weissmiller, this is part of her inspiration.

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

Alum Josh Bennett’s album drops this month

submitted by sbsn 10 hours ago (via thedp.com)

Emily Orrson “Don’t Let Me Go,” could easily have been written as a plea from Penn to former student Josh Bennett, who graduated from the University this spring. At Penn, Bennett performed with the spoken-word poetry project, Excelano, and had a substantial fan following. But this summer, he transformed verse to lyric and performance to production, writing and recording 14 hip-hop tracks in

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

George Hitchcock dies at 96; poet and publisher of the literary magazine 'kayak'

submitted by sbsn 10 hours ago (via latimes.com)

Hitchcock created kayak in 1964, and it quickly gained notice as a bulwark on the literary vanguard. It provided a forum for such writers as Robert Bly, Raymond Carver, W.S. Merwin and Anne Sexton. George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor whose iconoclastic vision as publisher of the literary magazine "kayak" helped free American poetry from mid-20th century ...

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

What Writing for (Search Engine) Robots Looks Like

submitted by sbsn 10 hours ago (via theatlantic.com)

A string of spam sites has an oddly beautiful way of generating dummy text to sell ads on Google - Web search engine - Bing - Search engine optimization - Website

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

Fighting public sector cuts with poetry

submitted by sbsn 10 hours ago (via guardian.co.uk)

Britain's poets are up in arms about the Con-Dems' public spending cuts – and they've published an anthology to prove it It's a familiar refrain among literary critics that British poetry has lost its polemical voice. But anyone lamenting the absence of "state of the nation" writing to challenge the prevailing political orthodoxy of austerity and hard-nosed welfare reform need despair no longer

More Info - Topic: Writing & Poetry

Home | Advertise | Contact | Sitemap