The Practice of the Wild
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The Practice of the Wild, a documentary film about Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gary Snyder, who has been called the poet laureate of deep ecology, premieres in New York City on November 12.
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Genre: Poetry
Eileen Myles's Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
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In this video for her new book, Inferno (A Poet's Novel), forthcoming from OR Books in November, poet Eileen Myles's talks about writing as a revolutionary impulse.
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The Future of Publishing
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Originally produced for a sales conference by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books, this video was inspired by a similar palindromic clip titled "The Lost Generation."
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Brown Foundation Fellows Program
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston offered residencies of one to three months from July 1 to November 30 to mid-career poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. Residents were provided with travel expenses, private lodging, work space, and a $50 daily stipend. Using only the online application system, writers submitted two work samples of up to 20 pages each, a curriculum vitae, a project description, a proposal for a community event, and two letters of recommendation with a $20 application fee by February 15.
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RESIDENCY
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yes
Event Date:
May 23, 2025
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ignore
Application Deadline:
May 23, 2025
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no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
May 23, 2025
Free Admission:
yes
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Brown Foundation Fellows Program, Dora Maar House, Museum of Fine Arts, P.O. Box 6826, Houston, TX 77265. (713) 639-7345.
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Ménerbes
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FR
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Reciting Brodsky in a Race Car
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Russian anchorwoman Tina Kandelaki speed-recites a poem by Joseph Brodsky while driving over 150 miles per hour. Why? Because she can.
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A Look at the Emerging Writer Fellowships
The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, just a few miles north of Washington, D.C., home to writing workshops and resources for area writers also offers a number of reading fellowships to poets and prose writers in the early stages of their careers. Fellows receive an honorarium and a slot to read at Story/Stereo, a fusion of live music and literature in performance that was attended by roughly seven hundred listeners in its first year, 2009.
Story/Stereo's fall season opens tonight, featuring California-based poet Allison Benis White, whose poetry collection Self-Portrait With Crayon won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize in 2008, and fiction writer Aryn Kyle of New York City, author of a short story collection, Boys and Girls Like You and Me (Scribner, 2010), and a novel, The God of Animals (Scribner, 2007). Benis White and Kyle will be accompanied by musician John Davis at the event, which begins at 8 PM.
Other fellows selected for the fall are poet Jenny Browne (The Second Reason) and memoirist Debra Gwartney (Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters), who will read on October 8, and poet Alison Pelegrin (Big Muddy River of Stars) and fiction writer Doreen Baingana (Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe), set to perform on November 5.
The fellows are chosen by a panel of the center's board members, community representatives, and workshop leaders. In the first two seasons of the program, the winners were seven men and five women, half of whom had published only one book, and the other half two. Five fellows were writers of color.
Kyle Semmel, the center's publications and communications manager, says the organization is looking to bring in emerging writers from across the country. (Fellows who live more than 250 miles from Bethesda receive an honorarium of five hundred dollars and local writers receive half that amount.) The deadline for writers nationwide to submit work for spring 2011 consideration is September 30.
In the video below, tonight's featured writer Aryn Kyle reads the first part of an essay at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn, New York, about her experience on a book tour (and dating another writer at the time). Subsequent scenes from the reading are posted on YouTube.
Major Jackson's "Leave It All Up to Me"
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Stop-motion whiteboard animation of a poem by Major Jackson, who is interviewed in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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University of California, Riverside
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Riverside, CA
Application Deadline:
Sun, 01/05/2025
Application Fee:
$135 (fee waiver available for financial hardship)
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Poets Act on Oil Spill
In response to the Deep-water Horizon oil spill, writers Heidi Lynn Staples and Amy King created Poets for Living Waters, an online poetry forum featuring works written in response to the disaster, spurring a host of nationwide events that give poets not only an opportunity to take action against the catastrophe but also to speak out in support of our natural environment.
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Exalted Utterance: An Interview With Major Jackson
Moving into new poetic territory, Major Jackson, in his third collection, Holding Company, corrals the ecstatic in a ten-line form.
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