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David Mason’s Poetry: The Movie
A beautiful 23-minute film including some of David Mason’s poems from his rich, subtly powerful new collection, Pacific Light. Enjoy! TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian var LanguageMenu; var LanguageMenu_keys=[“ar”,”bg”,”ca”,”zh-CHS”,”zh-CHT”,”cs”,”da”,”nl”,”en”,”et”,”fi”,”fr”,”de”,”el”,”ht”,”he”,”hi”,”mww”,”hu”,”id”,”it”,”ja”,”tlh”,”ko”,”lv”,”lt”,”ms”,”mt”,”no”,”fa”,”pl”,”pt”,”ro”,”ru”,”sk”,”sl”,”es”,”sv”,”th”,”tr”,”uk”,”ur”,”vi”,”cy”]; var LanguageMenu_values=[“Arabic”,”Bulgarian”,”Catalan”,”Chinese Simplified”,”Chinese Traditional”,”Czech”,”Danish”,”Dutch”,”English”,”Estonian”,”Finnish”,”French”,”German”,”Greek”,”Haitian Creole”,”Hebrew”,”Hindi”,”Hmong Daw”,”Hungarian”,”Indonesian”,”Italian”,”Japanese”,”Klingon”,”Korean”,”Latvian”,”Lithuanian”,”Malay”,”Maltese”,”Norwegian”,”Persian”,”Polish”,”Portuguese”,”Romanian”,”Russian”,”Slovak”,”Slovenian”,”Spanish”,”Swedish”,”Thai”,”Turkish”,”Ukrainian”,”Urdu”,”Vietnamese”,”Welsh”]; var LanguageMenu_callback=function(){ }; var LanguageMenu_popupid=’__LanguageMenu_popup’; TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE…Read More
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Don’t Miss Nicky Beer and Ahja Fox @ BookBar on Thursday, August 22nd
BookBar: 4280 Tennyson St, Denver CO 80212 | Phone : 303-284-0194 Click here for more info.Read More
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Essential American Poets
Just in case you haven’t dipped into the extraordinary archive of poetry readings and other media offered from free by the Poetry Foundation, here is the latest list of poets included. You can subscribe for free to get periodic updates as the archive expands. Enjoy! ~~~~~ Lorine Niedecker: Essential American Poets Posted: 13 Mar 2012 10:00 PM PDT Recordings of poet Lorine Niedecker with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at home in 1970. Recording courtesy of PennSound.Read More
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Nikky Finney’s National Book Award Acceptance Speech (2011)
A colleague shared the video below with me many moons ago, thinking (rightly) that I might appreciate it. I decided to post it but apparently got interrupted, and lingered in my “drafts” folder until today. I remembered it today when I ran across a video of a reporter at an NRA rally in the South interviewing a gray-haired old fellow wearing a confederate flag tee shirt. The reporter remarked that some people viewed that flag as a racist symbol.Read More
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A Ballet Inspired by Caroline Randall Williams’ Collection of Poems
The Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver proudly presents the Nashville Ballet Tuesday, March 29, and Wednesday, March 30 at the June Swaner Gates Concert Hall. Tickets start at $29 (plus applicable service fees) and are on sale now at newmancenterpresents.com or by phone at 303.871.7720. The nationwide tour of Lucy Negro Redux features music performed live by Grammy Award-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi along with spoken word by NAACP Image Award-winning author Caroline Randall Williams.Read More
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CORRECTION: The Original “An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans”
Early this past April I posted a link to “A Letter from the Virus,” a video presentation of a poem that I identified as being authored by Kristin Flyntz. What I didn’t know is that the Italian presentation (and its subsequent translation to English) was adapted by the film’s creator, Darinka Montico, from Ms. Flyntz’s original poem. To ensure that due credit is given to the various versions, at Ms. Flyntz’s request, I have revised that post.Read More
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A Letter from the Virus (Italian with English subtitles)
This is one of the most powerful messages I‘ve heard or seen related to our current distress. There is a version with the audio in English here, but somehow the Italian seems to carry more urgency. (Probably a subjective response to the sonic richness of that language.) But in any tongue, the message is something we all need to hear. Please share…. Film by Darinka Montico. English subtitles by EllaHellas. See here for a video narrated by the poem’s author, as well as the text of the original poem, which differs in significant ways from Ms.Read More
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From the Denver Area Poetry Scene a Quarter Century Back
Thanks to Carson Reed for posting images of this event on his Facebook page.Read More
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Congratulations, Bobby LeFebre!
I’m excited to announce that our new Colorado Poet Laureate, Bobby LeFebre, was announced today at the State Capitol building by the man who selected him, Governor Jared Polis.Read More