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Sep.13.2011
I’ve never been to Turkey or Israel. This fall we're taking a cruise that rectrifies that, starting in Istanbul and ending in Barcelona. Here’s the itinerary:
Oct 01 Istanbul, Turkey
Oct 02 Istanbul, Turkey
Oct 03 Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey
Oct 04 Patmos,...
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Sep.07.2011
Earlier this year I blogged about Simon Winchester, the Oxford-educated Brit who fell in love with America and became an American citizen this July fourth. He relishes our country’s strength and history the way only a newly-converted citizen can, it seems. This month he’s following the...
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Sep.06.2011
The workshop on October 6, 2011, from 1:00-4:00 with Jane Hirshfield is FULL.
If you would like to be on the waiting list, send a check for $100 made out to Poetry Center San Jose to: Erica Goss, 21559 Santa Ana Road, Los Gatos, CA 95033. (Checks will be returned if spaces do...
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Aug.08.2011
Poetry Center San Jose is pleased to present an evening of poetry with Jane Hirshfield (October 6, 7:00 p.m., Le Petit Trianon in San Jose). Hirshfield's latest book of poems, Come, Thief, will be released in August 2011. Her collection After was named a "best book of 2006" by The...
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Apr.11.2011
I’m back in New York City with my son. Tomorrow a play he’s written the music to will be produced at NYU as part of his MFA work. He was able to find us tickets to the play The Book of Mormon.
The high-concept musical, one of the hottest tickets in recent years, was written by the guys who...
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Apr.11.2011
I’m back in New York City with my son. Tomorrow a play he’s written the music to will be produced at NYU as part of his MFA work. He was able to find us tickets to the play The Book of Mormon.
The high-concept play, one of the hottest tickets in recent years, was written by the guys who...
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Mar.05.2011
This March 1 posting made me happy, especially the unexpectedly-kind comments; click on the poem to see.
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First poetry, now opera. Are your cultural horizons feeling a little overextended? I'll go easy on you...
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Feb.27.2011
Google alerts are powerful. [By the way “www.googlealert.com” is not Google. To get true Google alerts use "www.google.com/alert ”] The string ‘Kevin Arnold Red Room” dutifully shows me whatever slips into the blogosphere with my name on it. But the one that finds instances of the two...
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Nov.25.2010
It's a good thing Google stated "Don't do evil," as its company motto. They're ubiquitous, so they need a high ethics target to aim for even if they occasionally fail. One of their powerful free features is called Google Alerts. Google sweeps the web to find whatever ‘string' (group of...
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Nov.20.2010
A local reading group bought copies of my book in advance and invited me to come to their group. It was a great evening. The question of ‘rhymed and metered vs. free verse' came up, along with some discussion of my dependence on the last line of my poems to jolt the reading of the first lines. ...
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