Poetry - April is poetry month

April is poetry month
April is the month set aside for fools, baseball fans and poets -- and there's plenty of overlap among them. In a country where everything seems to get its own "official" day, week or month, April is the time devoted to the art and craft of poetry.
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Review: Hey Yeah Right Get a Life by Helen Simpson
John Mullan on Hey Yeah Right Get a Life by Helen Simpson.
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Gender Roles
Boys will be girls and girls will be boys. At least they will if theyre transgendered. But acting and dressing as the opposite sex isnt all these people can do. The Tranny Roadshow is a cast of transgendered individuals who perform music, read poetry, tell stories, and present original artwork. Theyll be stopping in Memphis on Thursday, April 13 at 7 p.m. at the Media Co-op in First
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Bunsmoke: Are bullets in backsides warnings?
FOOL ME ONCE, pistol-packing punks say, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I'll shoot you in the butt. The above doesn't qualify as poetry, but it apparently passes as a motto for some of the city's criminals, who have inadvertently made getting shot in the derriere one of the most interesting crime trends of the year, according to police. Post a Comment
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Poetry Personas
Three well-known writers reflect on new, contemporary work
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Blogger sparks off 'Fib' poems craze across the internet
Mathematics and poetry may be unlikely companions but a growing army of would-be wordsmiths is taking up a challenge to craft six-line verses that obey the disciplines of the so-called Fibonacci sequence.
Source: news.independent.co.uk

Lyrical, abstract and extreme
Mary Oslund has ancient mystic poetry and decay on her mind in two new dances, which makes her latest show at Imago Theatre an excellent prospect for admirers of movement that's lyrical, abstract and extreme.
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Flaubert: Contradictions of a literary giant
Flaubert. A Biography. By Frederick Brown. 628 pages. $35. Little, Brown & Company.
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