American Poetry | Poetry
Apr.12.2011
Poems from American poets with Finnish ancestry. From a reading given at United Finnish Kaleva Brothers and Sisters, Berkeley Lodge No. 21 on 10/24/2010. Available from: Don Hagelberg, 193 W. Verano Ave. #107, Sonoma, CA 95476
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Feb.26.2011
This is the 30 minute DVD docudrama of James Wright's Ohio done by Larry Smith and Tom Koba. It presents the poet through statements, interviews with fellow poets and his two wives, and uses images and sounds from his Ohio hometown, Martins Ferry, Ohio. Done with a grant from the Ohio Humanities...
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Feb.17.2011
100 poems by this master of the love poem, rebel poet Kenneth Patchen. Larry Smith provides a long biographic story of the lives of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen in "When the Wreath Touches the Heart." This is a revised, re-issue of this classic.
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Jan.12.2011
The "Greatest Hits Series" is part of a national archiving of American poets, a project by Pudding House, its editor, Jennifer Bosveld and staff. One must be nominated by another American poet in order to send in 12 of one's own favorite poems. Pudding House is not obligated to publish...
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Dec.07.2010
The Book of Men by Dorianne Laux, could just as easily have been called The Book of Empathy, or The Book of Negative Capability, or The Book of Intimate Awareness of Who We Are and How We Got To Be This Way. Whether she is writing about men or women, the powerful or the powerless, the present day...
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Nov.07.2010
A two-CD set, this audio book contains readings of all 57 poems in A Brave New Worldview. Traversing a wide range of form and subject, sometimes formal, sometimes experimental, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, these poems explore love, politics and our connection to nature and to each...
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Nov.04.2010
What does the Tattooed Lady fear? 'Some day I'll run out of skin.' Erin Keane's new book, Death-Defying Acts, is a collection of monologues by a varied cast of circus performers--the Aerialist, Zorada (a fortune teller), the Clown, the Tattooed Lady, the Lion Tamer and even the Lion. They're...
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Oct.09.2010
Aram Saroyan discusses his career, his father, and his battle with congress...
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