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Fair Winds and Following Seas

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Fair Winds and Following Seas
By Paul D.Q. Haddock, Esq., October 18, 2009

After twenty-two months, TwinArts Poetry (TAP) will cease web presentation in its current form. That is not to say that at some point in the future a blog or some other web format may be developed for the general public. However, the decision to suspend TAP as it is today will permit its few administrators and membership to pursue other related activities in their personal capacities.

TwinArts Poetry has always been freely accessible and open to the public, while maintaining a General audience focus so all ages, nationalities, creeds, et cetera. may enjoy and participate in the unison of poetry as it speaks to each of us in its own unique voice. Moreover, we sincerely thank you for nearly two years of visits and interest in TAP. According to the statistical trend, by years end, TwinArts would have accumulated 500,000 page views + from poetry enthusiasts world wide.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Mary Oliver To Speak At Cape Cod Community College

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Cape Cod Today
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver to speak at Cape Cod Community College
September 29, 2009

One of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America, named by the Boston Globe as one of the Seven Wonders of Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author Mary Oliver will read from her works at the Tilden Arts Center on Cape Cod Community Colleges West Barnstable campus, Wednesday October 14th at 7 p.m.

Kahlil Gibran And Indonesia

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The Jarkarta Post
Kahlil Gibran and Indonesia
By Eka Budianta, September 30, 2009

For so many years, the Kahlil Gibran International Conferences were frequently held in the United States, but now for the first time it will be held in Lebanon, later this year. Why? Does the world feel Gibran belongs to Lebanon more than to America? Now, the works of Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) have become favorites in Indonesia since the 1920s.

They appeared in Dutch translations as a fresh voice from the east, together with the works of Rabindranath Tagore, Imam Gazali, Djalaludin Rumi and many others. They were translated into Indonesian in 1949 by Bahrum Rangkuti (1919-1977) who also introduced Indonesia to the thoughts of Jawaharlal Nehru and M. Iqbal

The Poet Comes Home

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Star Tribune
The Poet Comes Home

Reckless youth. War protester. Translator. Men's-movement guru. Through it all, Robert Bly's enduring passion has been for his poetry.

By Laurie Hertzel, September 30, 2009

Outside the bus, bare fields. A barn, a silo. A cloudy sky, the early-morning sun trying to push through.

Inside the bus, poets. They take turns at the microphone, standing up and facing the other passengers, reciting poems, telling stories, passing out snacks. When the bus rounds a curve, they lurch and grab a seatback for balance, and laugh. They have come from all over the country to take this trip to the western Minnesota farm town of Madison.

Dharma Poetry: Jane Hirshfield

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Belief dot net
Dharma Poetry: Jane Hirshfield
September 25, 2009

A few weeks ago I blogged about Tyler Doherty, a fine contemporary Buddhist poet, and Gary Gach of Tricycle Magazine posted a comment. I looked Gary up and found out that he hosts a lively Haiku Corner blog at Tricycle's website. I also discovered that Gary edited a very cool book of Buddhist poetry called What Book!?: Buddha Poems From Beat To Hip-hop. This link is to a preview of nearly half of the book on Google Books. It's worth an e-trip!

Amy Gerstler s Message: Be Not afraid

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The Los Angeles Times
Amy Gerstler's message: Be not afraid
The poet wishes more people would realize that her medium doesn't hurt. At all.
By Dinah Lenney, September 27, 2009

It's not unusual for Amy Gerstler to trip down the street from her house to mine bearing gifts: a ripe avocado, a jar of martini olives, an article of interest, a plastic Cupid the length of my thumbnail. Today, she meets me outside with a book she wants me to see -- John D'Agata's eclectic "The Lost Origins of the Essay" -- and, because I asked, a mock-up of the cover of her new collection of poetry, "Dearest Creature" (Penguin: 96 pp., $18 paper). The image, of a diorama created by local artist Marnie Weber, brings to mind one of those Hidden Pictures puzzles in Highlights magazine, where you're supposed to find the objects that don't belong. Here, though, every item seems to have its place, all of them whimsical, witty or heartbreaking -- reflecting the poems within.

National Poetry Library Reopens In Lower Manhattan

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1010 Wins dot com
National Poetry Library Reopens in Lower Manhattan
September 24, 2009

NEW YORK (AP/ 1010 WINS) -- The first reading at Manhattan's independent national poetry library was given by a man better known for delivering punch lines than verse.

Actor Bill Murray's poetry reading to construction workers finishing work on Poets House in May included an Emily Dickinson work: "I dwell in possibility,/A fairer House than Prose.''

Profile Of 'Genius Award' Winner Heather McHugh

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The Online Newshour
Profile of 'Genius Award' Winner Heather McHugh
By Jim Lehrer, September 23, 2009

Funded by a grant from The Poetry Foundation.

A profile of Seattle poet Heather McHugh, who was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship on Tuesday.

JIM LEHRER: And finally, another in our ongoing series on poets and poetry. Tonight, Heather McHugh. She was just today awarded a MacArthur fellowship, popularly known as the genius award. McHugh is author of more than a dozen books of poetry, translation and essays.

Her newest collection, "Upgraded to Serious," will be published in November.

Award-Winning UI Alumni Share Nature-Inspired Works

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The Daily Iowan
Award-winning UI alumni share nature-inspired works
By Rebecca Koons, September 24, 2009

The simplest and most complex things can inspire poetry. A distinctive talent is necessary to craft a work that not only makes sense but has greater meaning.

Two graduates of the Iowa Writers Workshop have turned this talent into a satisfying career. Jared Stanley and Jessica Savitz will share their works at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., at 7 p.m. today.

Both Stanley and Savitz drew initial influence in the realm of poetry from various styles of music. Savitz was, throughout her life, surrounded by the musical styles of her father, who was a guitarist and songwriter. For Stanley, the hip-hop rivalries of his school days, which were prevalent at the time, affected him deeply.

African Poetry

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Black Voice News
African poetry
By Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D., September 23, 2009

The core of what African poetry is about is the primacy of beauty.

Whereas poetic emphasis for the ancient Greeks and much of the Western world has always been the significance of the Form, the artistic essence of Poetry for Africans has always been its Subjective aspects (related to God). This basic focus of Africans originated in Nature. Before Primitive (the first) Africans created the first words of the first language, they invented Natural Poetrymeaning it sounded the way it was originally created. For example, Primitive Africans first made Click, Whistle, and imitative (the birds cau, cau, cau) unspoken voice sounds that conformed to the beautiful rhythms of nature. Furthermore, they resorted to using mental imagery patterns (of the concrete and the particular) to begin organizing their psyche (Egyptian for soul) with the very basic structures of perception and experience.

Poet s Choice: 'Optimism' by Jane Hirshfield

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The Washington Post
Poet's Choice: 'Optimism' by Jane Hirshfield
By Jane Hirshfield, September 20, 2009

I wrote "Optimism" at a time when the resilience it speaks of was needed. As poets do, I waited for some image or idea to open the hard field those weeks and months were. What came was "crown shyness": the way that trees, rather than compete for light, sometimes withdraw from their neighbors' shade and grow instead toward any available brightness. A basic and exemplary sanity. The poem began, then, at the confluence of personal crisis and ecological pondering. But poems have their own fates, and this one has had many.

Bob Dylan To Exhibit New Paintings

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Digital City
Bob Dylan to Exhibit New Paintings
By Hannah Brehm, September 18, 2009

Breaking news is in adding yet another piece of work to the inexhaustible body of artistic output produced by the musician, poet, and painter Bob Dylan. As of earlier this week, the legendary figure is now committed to a fall 2010 exhibition of over 100 pieces at the National Gallery of Denmark.

Though Dylan has been a prolific painter since the 1960s, his recognition as a visual artist has been fairly recent. In 2007 he exhibited "Bob Dylan - The Drawn Blank Series" at the Kunstsamunningen Chemnitz in Germany to surprisingly good reviews. This forthcoming exhibition will consist of mostly new and previously unseen painting.

Dane Christensen Fuses Poetry, Prose In Dream-Like Azorno

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The Harvard Crimson Online
Dane Christensen Fuses Poetry, Prose in Dream-Like Azorno
By Anna K. Barnet, September 18, 2009

Whether Azorno is a novelesque prose poem, or a poetic novel written in prose is up for debateas is much of the nature of its contents. A hall of mirrors, the book was written by acclaimed Danish poet Inger Christensen, who died in early January of this year at 73. Denise Newmans translation of Azorno, released in January, marked the first time since its publication in the late 1960s that the novel has been available in English, and while the books experimental nature makes its absence rather unsurprising, the arrival of its 105 pages is long overdue.

Poetry Class

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New Era Nambia
Poetry Class
By Christi Warner, September 18, 2009

The weekend has arrived once again, and if youre looking for some form of relaxation (sitting down to refresh your mind from the weeks hard work) then the New Eras Art Life is a perfect starter. Youve found your way to Poetry Class and youre wondering just how relaxed this will make you.

Reading is not just for the intellectual or doesnt only promise intellect, but it is good for us, it stimulates our thinking and places us in virtual environments that actually happened. We read and we find ourselves in the shoes of various characters (through them we get to know about sad or elating things that do not happen in our own lives), we awaken our emotions, our senses and next time we meet up with friends and family we actually have conversation starters and we impress them so much because were seen as people who actually know a lot about whats going on around the world.

On Poetry: Poet s Personal Life Has No Bearing On His Or Her Work

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The Norwich Bulletin
On Poetry: Poets personal life has no bearing on his or her work
By A.S. Maulucci, September 4, 2009

Although most readers now expect American authors to keep nothing hidden about their personal lives, knowing the intimate details of a poets everyday existence carries risks for the enjoyment of his or her work. If we dislike a poets personality or find his behavior repugnant, then we could be repulsed by his poetry. Conversely, if we sympathize with some of his or her personal suffering we would most likely be drawn more deeply into his world. So which is better: to reveal or not to reveal? It remains an open question.

Poetry Class

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New Era
Poetry Class
By Christi Warner, September 4, 2009

GENTEEL Readers, I salute thee and embrace thee with all the warmth from Venice, Italy. Daily I am surrounded by beautiful scenery (historic buildings, a city surrounded by water, gondolas in the Venetian lagoon, lovers on the streets, my love on one hand and Italian ice-cream in the other), which guides me to think about the most important Italian poet, Dante.

Perhaps this historic poet found the perfect definition of this worldly emotion that at times causes so much confusion and emotion or perhaps his definition of love causes even more perplexity. Dante believed that Amore e l cor gentil sono una cosa (La Vita Nuova 1292), which in English means Love and the gentle heart are but one thing. Can love truly be compared to a gentle heart and does this mean only those with a gentle heart can find true love? Perhaps it is so, I strongly believe that in order to be found by love one has to let all fears go, let all plans and ideologies of love go, allow yourself to be vulnerable or rather as the poet says, have a gentle heart for without it love cannot penetrate a heart of stone and therefore a heart of stone cannot be love.

Books Will Survive, But Not On Paper

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The Australian
Books will survive, but not on paper
By Susan Hayes, September 4, 2009

When I read recently that sales of the new Kindle e-reader in the US have not been as huge as anticipated, I must confess that my first feeling was one of relief. In the course of the past week I have acquired a new phone that does everything but feed the cat and an equally complicated camera. Both have necessitated lengthy tutorials from my son and I'm going through a fit of technology overload.

When US digital guru Bob Stein and I sat down at the Melbourne Writers Festival last month to discuss the future of the book, we were searching for common ground. Bob is one of those guys who calls books user-driven media. I'm one of those women of a certain age who belongs to a book club and can't get on a plane without at least one novel in my hand luggage.

Poet, Journalist And Novelist Melinda Elmore . . .

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Essential Writers dot com
Poet, journalist and novelist Melinda Elmore talks about her efforts to balance her work and life
By Kathleen Inglis, September 2, 2009

Melinda Elmore is an American author and poet whose work has been published in Soft Whispers Magazine and Autumn Leaves online poetry journal. Her romance novel, Native Dreams, draws on her fascination with Native American culture. Melinda is also a freelance writer for the Navajo/Hopi Observer in Flagstaff, Arizona.

What inspired you to become a writer?

ME: As a child, I loved to read and write. Many nights I would wrap up in a blanket, daydream, while I turned the exciting pages of a book. The books would take me to many places. I loved the idea of going from the normal world in which I lived, then instantly I would be taken to a place far away.

To be Or Not To Be: Poetry On Sidewalks

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Evanston Review
To be or not to be: Poetry on sidewalks
By Bob Seidenberg, September 3, 2009

Poetry writers throughout the city may have a new canvas for their work -- pavement outside the doors of the main public library -- under a proposal that received support recently.

Officials are talking about including poetry stamped into the pavement as part of the sidewalk replacement program for the library, 1703 Orrington.

Joshua Barnes, co-chairman of the city's Public Arts Committee, came up with the idea after studying a similar project in Saint Paul, Minn.

Newspapers Replace The Iron Curtain With A Paper One

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Russia Today
Newspapers replace the Iron Curtain with a paper one
September 3, 2009

Russian poet and social activist Evgeny Yevtushenko sees a simple human approach as a solution to universal political problems.

Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Live Technorati Scoop del.icio.us Digg Sphinn Furl Reddit RT: The so called crucial thaw in the USSR of the 1960s was the time when you gained most of your popularity. Do you still consider yourself a dissident?

Evgeny Yevtushenko: I never called myself a dissident. Rebel yes, but, you know, Pushkin gave us a very inviting example being at the same time, as he was, a statesman and a rebel. You could combine it, you know. I was never interested in politics professionally. But I think that a writer could not be indifferent to politics, because if he is indifferent to politics it means that he is indifferent to the people.

TwinArts Poetry Articles - TwinArts Poetry

Fair Winds and Following Seas

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Mary Oliver To Speak At Cape Cod Community College

Kahlil Gibran And Indonesia

The Poet Comes Home

Dharma Poetry: Jane Hirshfield

Amy Gerstler s Message: Be Not afraid

National Poetry Library Reopens In Lower Manhattan

Profile Of 'Genius Award' Winner Heather McHugh

Award-Winning UI Alumni Share Nature-Inspired Works

African Poetry

Poet s Choice: 'Optimism' by Jane Hirshfield

Bob Dylan To Exhibit New Paintings

Dane Christensen Fuses Poetry, Prose In Dream-Like Azorno

Poetry Class

On Poetry: Poet s Personal Life Has No Bearing On His Or Her Work

Poetry Class

Books Will Survive, But Not On Paper

Poet, Journalist And Novelist Melinda Elmore . . .

To be Or Not To Be: Poetry On Sidewalks

Newspapers Replace The Iron Curtain With A Paper One

Newspapers Replace The Iron Curtain With A Paper One