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03.22: Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan
2015-02-14 01:01:37| Powells Books Events Calendar
Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan (Holy Cow Press) is a groundbreaking collection of poetry by eight contemporary Afghan women poets in English translation en face with the original Persian Dari text. Afghan poet Somaya Ramesh and American poet/translator Farzana Marie will be on-hand to share their work from Load Poems Like Guns.
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Free poems from Audible may get you in Valentine's Day mood
2015-02-09 14:55:57| IT Services - Topix.net
With Valentine's Day fast approaching, what better way to get you in the mood than some of the world's great love poems read aloud - for free? Audible Inc., the world's largest seller of downloadable audiobooks, is offering a 30-minute collection of some the most beloved love poems narrated by actor Richard Armitage including "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." The list includes "She Walks In Beauty" by Lord Byron, "How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Maud" by Lord Alfred Tennyson, "Bright Star" by John Keats, "Annabel Lee," by Edgar Allan Poe, "I Carry Your Heart" by e.
01.19: A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford
2013-12-17 00:35:56| Powells Books Events Calendar
Nearly 20 years after his death in 1993, William Stafford's work, teaching philosophies, and life example continue to inspire, challenge, and sometimes baffle us. How does Stafford affect us as writers, readers, Americans, students, teachers? As poets, how might we honor and test his legacy? A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford (Woodley Press) takes its name from Stafford's famous poem "A Ritual to Read to Each Other," deliberately re-visioning the original title to reflect the community and diversity in such an anthology. Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen will moderate an event featuring contributors Tim Gillespie, Kim Stafford, Doug Stone, and Mark Thalman.
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Tales from Alaska, poems from warmer climes
2013-06-11 13:14:27| Apparel - Topix.net
By Mike Dillon On a cold, dark day, Seattle looks very much like what it was: the jumping-off point to the Yukon.
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