| MUSELETTER Archives, 2001 |
MUSELETTER #98 12.16.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Novels by Poets & Novelists Poets Should Read
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: CD Review - Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt at countrymusic.about.com
TOKYO/JAPAN: American Poets in Japan: Irving Stettner’s Poesie in Action, Mignettes: Exhibitions, New Publications, New Issue of Online Journal, New Collection (in Japanese).
MIAMI/FLORIDA: In Memoriam: George Harrison & Larry Donovan, MOMA Mia!, A Down to Earth Kinda Guy, 7th Annual Florida-Brazil Festival, Sol Theatre Shines in Lauderdale, Dressed in Drag at Lumonics, Goldbarth on the Gold Coast, At the Miami Bookfair International, George Wallace Take Two, New National Poetry Competition Unveiled, All Eyes on Jacksonville.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Christmas Haiku, Pacific Northwest Writers Association 2002 Literary Contest.
MUSELETTER #97 12.7.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Top Picks - Poetry Anthologies
BRISTOL/ENGLAND: Snowballs: A Bristol Allegory, Pete Hunter & Acoustic Night, UK Permafrost.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Posterband Qasidas, Czeslaw Milosz: “A Century’s Witness.”
MUSELETTER #96 11.30.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Top Picks - Recent Poetry Books & CDs
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: “Will Write Poetry For Money” at contemporarylit.about.com
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: Texas Book Festival Tour Diary, poem by Gary Mex Glazner - “Maps and Wings.”
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: “The Companionship of a Poem” in Chronicle Review, Slope Editions Book Prize.
MUSELETTER #95 11.15.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Poems After the Attack (enlarged collection)
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Guide Picks of Emily Dickinson poems and letters at womenshistory.about.com
PRAGUE/CZECH REPUBLIC: Third Annual Poetry Day: November 16, Poetry Without Borders Festival, Odds & Ends.
TEXAS: A Call To Peaceful Arms, The Poetry Must Go On in Austin, Elsewhere Across Texas, Big Events for Everybody Everywhere.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: “The Language of War and Peace” at Big Bridge, “Words To Comfort” at Jacket.
MUSELETTER #94 11.2.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Poetry At Times Like These by Victor Infante
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: A study guide to Sonnet 73 at shakespeare.about.com
MONTREAL/CANADA: Howl: A Festival of Art & Revolution, Impure Spoken Word, Halloween in Vancouver, Vancouver Videopoem Festival, ribsauce.
VIRGINIA/DC/MARYLAND: Poetry Society of Virginia Contests, The Best of Melic, Richmond Happenings, Northern Virginia Doings, Maryland Events, DC Poetry, Touring to Charlottesville.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: New hypermedia poem + Red Cross benefit auction, the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.
MUSELETTER #93 10.20.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: A Report from Zimbabwe by Lourdes Vázquez
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Out of the Blue, Bumbershoot ’01, Hip Hop Opera: Freight Train Land, Northwest Bookfest, RASP Fall for Poetry, Readings from the San Francisco Edge, Bernadette Mayer and Jerome Rothenberg, Publishing Online’s Poetry Contest.
AUSTRALIA: Down in Tasmania, World Congress of Poets in Sydney, NSW Carnivale Literary Festival, Reading in the Wollongong Wedding Room, Paul Cliff in Canberra, Elsewhere on This Side of the Continent.
CHICAGO/MIDWEST: From Our Wisconsin Friends, Oh How the Network Frustrates!
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Albany, NY: 4th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Benefit, Cincinnati, OH: 2002 Word Press Poetry Prize.
MUSELETTER #92 10.13.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: An Open Letter To Any Would-Be Terrorists from Naomi Shihab Nye
SAN FRANCISCO/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: What I’ve Been Up To, New Readings, Poets Come and Go, Now In Stores, Book News: Manic a Plenty, Momotombo & Haussmann, Upcoming Events, Contests & Calls for Submissions.
CHICAGO/MIDWEST: Windy City Diary Entry: 11 September, Conference/Fellowships/Awards Around Chicago, Other Chicago News, Minneapolis’ Wundervenue, On the Worldwide Radar.
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST: Everything’s Coming Up Tish!
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Gathering of the Tribes, Drunken Boat.
MUSELETTER #91 10.7.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Crossing Borders with Naomi Shihab Nye
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST: The People’s Poetry, Words Toward Compassion, Poets Giving More Than Just Blood to the Red Cross, Workshop Your Grief, Gertrude Stein Lives!, Pink Pony Carries On, See Sekou, Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: Flags Across the Southwest, The Ownership of Words: Doris Cross, The Found Word, Cross Links.
JAPAN: Prayers from Japan, American Poets in Japan: Cid Corman, More Corman on the Net.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: WTC = Words To Comfort, September 11 - The Poets’ Response.
MUSELETTER #90 9.30.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: More Poems After the Attack: A Contemporaneous Anthology
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Quotes on grief and sorrow at shakespeare.about.com
TEXAS, from new correspondent Courtney O’Banion: Austin Summer Sizzles with Hot New Poetry Venues, Slam Perfecto Summer, BYOB, Your Neighborly Fall Poetry Preview.
BRISTOL/UNITED KINGDOM: BIP001: The American Connection, Slam! Productions with Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury, October in the UK.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Our grief is not a cry for war! (Artists Network of Refuse and Resist), benefit poetry chapbook for Red Cross.
MUSELETTER #89 9.17.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Poems After the Attack: “Cement Cloud”
MONTREAL/CANADA: Our Hearts, Our Prayers Go Out To You, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Trains of Winnipeg, Canzine, Howl Festival of Art & Revolution, To Wrap Up September...
PRAGUE/EUROPE: What’s New in Prague, New Wave Ukraine, The Croatian Literary Scene, Wandering in Southwest France.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Apples & Oranges Poetry Memorial.
MUSELETTER #88 9.3.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Meet Meagan Brothers
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: “The Amazing Lyric Finding Machine” at musicians.about.com
VIRGINIA/DC/MARYLAND: National Book Fest, Naturally Hip in DC, Northern Virginia/DC/Maryland Regular Readings & Series, Web Sites To Bookmark for Events In & Around DC, Blue Ridge Writers Conference, Join Your Local State Poetry Society!, Richmond Readings & Events, Local Writers Recently Published.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Is Poetry Dangerous? (OutLoudLive 2000), LoLa Writes (Opal Palmer Adisa).
MUSELETTER #87 8.25.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: We’ve got a new Museletter correspondent from Australia
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: “In the Garden of Editorial Delights” at contemporarylit.about.com
AUSTRALIA: Byron Bay Writer’s Festival, At the Top End of the Continent, The Poetry Cup, Melbourne Writers’ Festival.
MIAMI/FLORIDA: Adam’s Rib Offers Meaty Opportunity, Not So Speechless in Seattle, There’s Gold in South Florida, O What a Poetic Web We Weave, On the Page On the Web, 2River’s Unwatered-Down Chap, Xango Music to His Peers, They Attacked the Mic - No Survivors, Poetry in Sultry Song, Hot Links.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Dublin: £8000 awarded in Davoren Hanna Poetry Competition, Berkeley: The Watershed Festival.
MUSELETTER #86 8.16.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: The Poetry Kids from Pittsburgh
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Poet Power review at publishing.about.com
LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Museletter Goes LA & Beyond, And Now For the News... Poetry Venue Blues, Penguin Boy Lands at OC Weekly, Tuesday Nights Are Mondays Now, Sista C Flies High with a Poetic Soaring Celebration, New Comrades Debuts, Old Buddy New Reading, Killer Poetry Stays Alive, Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug Caffe in Orange, Ever Been to a LitRave?, The Missing Lizzie Wann Papers, Coffee Cartel Involved in Poetry Take Over, Rapp Saloon Reopens Its Doors, The Big Damn Poetry Slam Marches On, PL@Zen Celebrates Poetry Every Week, Skylight Books Does Po, Calling All Poets, Magic Poetry, Da Poetry Lounge Hotter Than Ever.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: NYC: Robert Creeley & Friends at Knitting Factory, PA: Jen Bryant in Riverside Reading Series.
MUSELETTER #85 8.9.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: “Poesie in Yaponesia” by Taylor Mignon
NEW FEATURE: Hot Poem! “How To Stay Kool,” by Edwin Torres
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: poems by Mao Zedong at chineseculture.about.com
TOKYO/JAPAN: “Yamamoto Kansuke: Conveyor of the Impossible,” Mignettes: calls for submissions, readings, new publications.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: New York: New Cellar series at Siberia, New Mexico: 4th annual Poets & Writers Picnic.
MUSELETTER #84 8.3.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Dirty Words & the Right To Know
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Spotlight on Countee Cullen at afroamlit.about.com
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: What I Did on My Summer Vacation, The 3:15 Experiment, National Poetry Slam 2001 event schedule & venue locations.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: The Guild Complex, “Intoxicating Poetry” Contest & Tasting.
MUSELETTER #83 7.15.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: “Hiring a Professional” by Anne MacNaughton
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: poetry collection at genealogy.about.com
NEW ZEALAND POETRY VENUES: Poetry Further Down Under!
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Neruda on Mercury, Poets’ Chat with Peter Gizzi.
MUSELETTER #82 7.8.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: A Word To the Wise: On Entering Your Poems in Competition
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: The Breath of Parted Lips, Robert Frost at classiclit.about.com
BRISTOL/UNITED KINGDOM: Rupert Hopkins: Education Action Zone, Bristol Poetry Festival: A New Look, BIP001 Seeking International Poets.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: “Is it open mike or open mic?” from poetz.com, Literary Contest Caution, Time to rally around poet Martín Espada.
MUSELETTER #81 7.1.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Poetry Down Under, Part II: The Book Report
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Introducing... the Long Beach/Orange County Poetry Slam Team, Anthology! Incidental Buildings and Accidental Beauty, Bye-bye Penguins, Odds & Ends.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Write food haiku, win cookbooks!
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: wine poetry at wine.about.com
MUSELETTER #80 6.23.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Poetry Down Under
PHILADELPHIA AREA: Farewell Philly Museletter
LOS ANGELES: Fly Poet update
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: mark(s) ezine, Welcome to WillieWorld.
MUSELETTER #79 6.17.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Spotlight on Poetry Currents
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Spoken Word at rap.about.com
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: Danger: Poetry Ahead, “Deer Park” by Wang Wei, Witter Bynner’s Generous Spirit, P.S. Poet As Job.
MONTREAL/CANADA & SOUTH AFRICA: Poetry Africa 2001, Words & Jazz, Montreal Fringe Festival, Grimy Windows, One Down, One Climbing Up in Toronto.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Free sampler from Green Bean Press, World Haiku Review.
MUSELETTER #78 6.13.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Scrubbin’ Da Scroll
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: “An Artist’s Dream” at contemporarylit.about.com
LOS ANGELES/OKLAHOMA/BELGRADE: Poetizing in the City of Angels and a Couple Other Places, From My Pals in Oklahoma, Guerrilla Publishing in LA, Fly Poet Brings Underground Above Ground, Rachel Knits Too, Don Campbell Does Mondays, Getting Foxy, Poem.X Is Most Poetic, Sunland-Tujunga Branch Library Readings, PL@Zen Keeps Going On, Enter the Dragon Draws Poets to Chinatown, Words “N” Tha Mix on Fridays, Mechapoet Live, Last Word From Belgrade.
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST: Spoken Word Underground, The Met Meets Poetry, Saul For Free.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Righteous Babe tour info.
MUSELETTER #77 6.4.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Where Did You Come From? Where Do You Go? reader poll
NEW YORK CITY/NORTHEAST: June Is Gay Pride Month, Slam Teams Finalized, Not Such a Long Shot, Sistah Speaks Out!, Pony Show, Summer in the City, Walk It Out, Wildcat Woman Returns, Saturday Night Fever.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: 100 Days: An Anthology, Poets4Peace.
MUSELETTER #76 5.27.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Willie Perdomo Gets Political:Where a Nickel Costs a Quarter
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: “Daring God Out of Heaven?” at classiclit.about.com, ePublishing at romancefiction.about.com, Sonnet 75 at shakespeare.about.com.
PRAGUE/CZECH REPUBLIC: Words To “See,” Upcoming Events/Open Readings, International Book Fair in Prague, Literature Across Frontiers, A Few More Literary Cafes/Venues, From Slovakia, Last But Not Least.
MIAMI/FLORIDA: Older American Month, The Wild Horse Poetry Series, Dada Slam in Delray Beach.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: SpokenWorld Webcast, An evening of police poetry in the Bronx.
MUSELETTER #75 5.20.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Word Hoard, The envelope please
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: DC Events: Slam, Etc., SLAMicide! in Baltimore, Northern Virginia Dates, From the Poetry Society of Virginia, The Bad News and the Good News from Richmond.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: The Baudelaire Award for Poetry, Call for Submissions: Vancouver Videopoem Festival.
MUSELETTER #74 5.13.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Galway Kinnell’s Word Hoard, A Challenge
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: “Emily’s Mother” at classiclit.about.com
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: In the Wilds of Boston; Poets in Occupied Buildings, Temporary Shelters & Stand-Offs; Spoken Word in Providence; Another Reading Out in the Cold; The Amazon Slam; Short Takes.
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: April Is the Cruellest...; Summertime, and the Living Is, Etc...; Tony Brown Is Comin’ To Town; A Few Odds and Ends.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Big City Lit correction, Riverside Reading Series.
MUSELETTER #73 5.6.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Survivor Poet! Final Round
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: “Tagore: The Poet As Lover” at bengaliculture.about.com
BRISTOL/UK (US TOUR): Little Planet Poetry Guide, The Tim & Taalam Show at Waterloo Ice House, Much Respect To Jerome Davis.
MIAMI/FLORIDA: In Cyberspace No One Can Hear You Scream; Miami: The Rush-ins Are Coming!; Poets & Politics; Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like Lightning; Stick This in Your Lip, Tongue & Ear; The All New, Improved Books and Books; From Jonathan Rose’s Cultural Newsletter; Grab Your Jack; Dinner With Lyn; Meet Richard Jones; I’ll Take Manhattan; Quartetto Poetica; From Palm Beach County; From Poets of the Palm Beaches; From the Sexy Slam Mistress of Delray; Poetry at the Salvador Dali Museum; Nokturnal Escape Breaking Down Walls Up in Jax.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: Big City Lit (tm), “The Face and Place of Poetry” at the Christian Science Monitor.
MUSELETTER #72 4.29.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Survivor Poet! Round 3
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: National Poetry Month special, ever onward
PHILADELPHIA AREA: Re-entry Made Easy with J.C. Todd, Julianna Baggott, and Tracie Morris, Upcoming Poetry Events at Kelly Writers House, New Poetry Venue at The Point of Destination Café, Tazza’s Teeming with Steaming Poetry in Old City, Poetry That Goes the Distance at The Writers Room of Bucks County, Deirdre Greenleaf Allan Named 2001 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Books as Bricks at The Free Library of Philadelphia, GLUE Joins Together Artists in a Live Performance Collage, West Asian Voices at the Asian Arts Initiative, The Irrepressible International Women’s Writing Guild to Present in Philadelphia, Delaware Has a New Reading and Slam Series, Stephen Dunn to Read at University of Delaware, The Drexel Online Journal is Live, Free, and Seeking Submissions!, What is Dharmic Poetry?
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: Poet As Job.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: DC WritersCorp Teen Slam at Kennedy Center, Anthology seeking submissions: Poems To Help You Stay Sane.
MUSELETTER #71 4.22.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Survivor Poet! Round 2
MONTREAL/CANADA: Blue Metropolis, Griffin Poetry Prize, Sheri-D Wilson in Montreal May 20th, Poetic Protest in Quebec City, Youth Poetry Week in Canada, Todd Swift Eulogy for Louis Dudek, Poetry & Jazz at the Casa.
LOS ANGELES (& AROUND): PoeForward Presents the Comedy of Edgar Allan Poe, Cloud 9 Productions Presents Words “N” Tha Mix, Enter the Dragon Every Friday, Okie Poetry, Desert News From Las Vegas, Joshua Tree Poetry in the Park Workshop, Contextual Poetry?, Poetry Doings in the Cali Cap, Sacramento, Word Delicious Poetry Series, San Luis Obispo Corners of the Mouth, From Way Down Under a PaperTiger Roars, Brain Candy, New Reading in San Gabriel Valley, Skylight Books’ Big Bad Book of Poetry!, The Big Campbell Move, PoeticLicense in Its Seventh Year, Poem.X, PoHoOne.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: June Jordan Webcast at Kelly Writers House, Voices Around the Square in NYC.
MUSELETTER #70 4.17.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Survivor Poet! You Choose
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: National Poetry Month special, still
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Spring, When the Poets Come Back To the Pacific Northwest, Waldman & Schelling at SPLAB, On a More Somber Note, From KotaPress, And From Our Friends to the North, Edgewise Electrolit Centre, 2001 Seattle Poetry Festival.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: An Invitation To Add Lines To “Library,” Davoren Hanna Poetry Competition.
MUSELETTER #69 4.9.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Wanda Coleman’s Book Club
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: National Poetry Month special
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST: Independent Voices Rewarded, Johanna For You, Listen Up!, Progressive Activist Needing Money For Your Poetry Studies?, Love To Lick Langston, Urbana on the Web, Slam Your TV!, Best American Poetry at Symphony Space.
SAN FRANCISCO/BAY AREA: Rollins at the Palace, City Lights Lyric, Slam Roundup, Traveling Through SF, Poetry Center Presents, Euro-San Francisco Festival 2001.
PRAGUE/CZECH REPUBLIC: Exciting Late News for Poetry Travelers.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: BardFest 2001, Leo Connellan 1928 - 2001.
MUSELETTER #68 4.5.01
WHAT’S NEW AT ABOUT POETRY: Poetry MP3 Picks
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: National Poetry Month special
PRAGUE/CZECH REPUBLIC: Dobry Den!, Prague Writers’ Festival, English-Language Readings in Prague, Other Readings & Literary Cafes, Prague-Based Literary Journals, Literary Groups & Activities, Prague Publishers of Interest.
TEXAS: Deep in the Heart Report 03.01, SXSW Spoken Word As We Speak, If I Listed All the AIPF Poets You’d Be Reading For Weeks, Hello Moving Vans, Don’t Cry For Gaby Argentina, Did I Not Call It Last Issue?, Push Play and Record, Open To Page One and Read.
ELSEWHERE ON THE NET: American Poet Stamp Project, Riverside Reading Series.
MUSELETTER #67 3.17.01
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Emily Dickinson at womenwriters.about.com
BRISTOL/ENGLAND: The United Colours of Bristol, In Defence of Rhyme, UK Event Listings.
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: It’s Unofficial: Boston Declares March “Poetry Month”; Hearing Voices, Speaking in Tongues, A Poetry of Schizophrenia; Our Loss, Our Gain; Jaaaack Is Back!; Why They Call It Wormtown; Coming To Towns Near You: Elect a Poet; Short Takes.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Jan McLaughlin.
MUSELETTER #66 3.7.01
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: poems by women at womenshistory.about.com
NEW MEXICO/SOUTHWEST: Ho Xuan Huong and Dana Levin, Here Is the Deal.
ORANGE COUNTY/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Nigh-Thirty!, I Can Walk Like A Penguin!, Stuff Being Published -- Local and Abroad, Long Beach Slam Still Smoking, Geez This Is Getting Long.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Bob Nelson.
MUSELETTER #65 2.16.01
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Gwendolyn Brooks at chicago.about.com
VIRGINIA/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Regular Readings in Richmond, Virginia Festival of the Book, Hot Shotz in Northern Virginia, Poetry Events in DC Proper, Maryland, Baltimore & Environs.
LOS ANGELES/ARKANSAS: Poem.X at Barnes and Noble Santa Monica, Man As Bomb: Gregory Corso Celebrated, Redondo Poets: Poetry by the Sea, Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, Poetic License Celebrates 6 Years, United Nations Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry, ArtSpeaks! Blows Up, A Review from Jerry Quickley, Sushi Performance & Visual Art in Downtown San Diego, Hot Springs, Arkansas Heats Up, Linda Gamboa a Moving Force in the LA Poetry Community.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Jim Clark, Local Literature, Kathie Meyer, Kim Cotton.
MUSELETTER #64 2.10.01
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Poets of the Harlem Renaissance at classicpoetry.about.com
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST: NYC Poetry Calendar Benefit.
MONTREAL/CANADA: Where the Wind Howls, Best Show So Far This Winter, Meanwhile Four Other Venues..., The Yellow Door, Valentine’s Day in Toronto, Words&Music.
PHILADELPHIA/SOUTH JERSEY/DELAWARE: Dave Steel Steel Tries to Make Peace with His Two Worlds Within, Shulamith Wechter Caine and Kenneth Pobo at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Thinkin’, Feelin’, Teachin’, Defyin’, Singin’ In The Company of Poets, Highwire Reading Series Gets Rewired, Sitting Pretty: Photographs from the Marianne Moore Collection at The Rosenbach, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Summons the All of It, American Writing Celebrates Its 11th Year of Publication, Spring 2001 Poets and Writers Series at Temple Gallery, Kelly Writers House Fellows 2001, Jeffrey Loo Is No Stranger to Philadelphia Poetry, Reading and Workshop with Harryette Mullen at the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Verse on the Verge, Jayne Cortez and The Firespitters Will Ignite the Painted Bride, Villanova University’s Third Annual Literary Festival, The United Nations Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry, Mad Poets Society Readings Schedule for Spring 2001, A Walk through the Experimental Forest Leads to the Harrisburg Poetry Scene, A Weekend of Worldwide Words: The 2nd People’s Poetry Gathering in New York City.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Erminia Passannanti, MLVS Hopson, Tomas Gayton.
MUSELETTER #63 2.1.01
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: local poetry listings at austin.about.com
CHICAGO/MIDWEST: A Few Words of Introduction, Mental Graffiti: The Writing on My Cerebral Wall, Momma’s Day Comes Early, Two-Tongue Two-Step, The Eternal Recurrence of Departure, Slam Gets a Makeover, Until Next Time: Please Harass Me.
SEATTLE/PACIFIC NORTHWEST: For Syllable Munchers Wandering Northwestward, The 2001 Superbowl, and the Winner Is... Poetry!, On the Road with the SF/Bezerkley Slam Team, Time For Lunch...
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Ralph Haselmann, Jr.
MUSELETTER #62 1.25.01
POETRY IS EVERYWHERE AT ABOUT: Latin haiku & other poetic resources at latin.about.com
NEW YORK/NORTHEAST: “Toodle-oo” Gregory Corso, Poetry in Albany, When Is a Pink Pony Not a Pink Pony?, NYC Online!, Youth Quaker.
DENVER/ROCKY MOUNTAINS: Winter Doings in Denver: Kwanzaa & Iyanla Vanzant, Hue-Man Experience Bookstore, Slamming & Showing at Cafe Nuba, Events Calendar from Brother Jeff’s, Hats Off, Don’t Miss Out, Soul Lovely.
MUSELETTER #61 1.18.01
TEXAS: Deep in the Heart Report 01.01, Silver Lining, Good News from the Monolith, San Antonio Is Poised To Be Hip, We’ve Got the Jacks, Tina Meet Ballabajoomba; Ballabajoomba Meet Tina, Esperanza & Bridgforth Team Up.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Zoe Trouveres, Tony Washington, Renee Steinke.
MUSELETTER #60 1.13.01
BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND: Some Like It Cold, Poetic (In)Justice, Vote Early, Vote Often, Calendaring New England, Spotlight One: Lizard Lounge, Spotlight Two: Stone Soup Poets, All Politics Is Local, and So Is Poetry.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Doug Holder, Hank.
MUSELETTER #59 1.8.01
MIAMI/FLORIDA: Diving Into the Florida Election Swamp, Lip, Tongue & Ear Poetry Productions, Le Bookfair, From the Tampa Bay Area, From Hollywood, A New Poetry Group From Lauderhill, From Now-Infamous Palm Beach County, The Delray Beach Slam From Marya Summers, More From Delray Beach.
READER-SUBMITTED POETRY NEWS BRIEFS: From Stazja McFadyen, Tony Washington.
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