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Jeff GordinerThe Poetry FoundationIn Port Angeles, Washington, it was Tess Gallagher.I had stopped for a lunch of yogurt and fresh figs on the way to the coast, and, as so often happens, I wound up wandering into a local bookstore. This one was Port Book & News on First Street, and by the time I'd left, about five minutes l (Read More)
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I've been in publishing for more than 20 years, I've attended my fair share of writer's conferences and workshops, and in my experience, the poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the best writing teachers I ever encountered. What he cared most about in his students was authenticity, and over the years he developed a series of slog (Read More)
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This list, compiled by Sebastian Jones, is an exclusive excerpt from "Going Rouge: An American Nightmare" available only by direct order from OR Books.The Hills Are AliveRiding 2 Kenai; writing last Govs speech on way; country music streaming & countryside screaming inspiration 4 pro-developmnt + pro-enviro msg 12:52 PM Jul (Read More)
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Fortunately for "What the Dog Saw," the essay format is a better showcase for Gladwell's talents, because the constraints of length and editors yield a higher ratio of fact to fancy. Readers have much to learn from Gladwell the journalist and essayist. But when it comes to Gladwell the social scientist, they should watch ou (Read More)
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In Emin PrisonClaire MessudThe New York Review of Books"My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran"by Haleh Esfandiari.Ecco, 230 pp., $25.99Extraordinary events in Iran over the past six months have brought us images, voices, and narratives until recently unimaginable; they reveal, among other things, how li (Read More)
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Stephen BurtThe Poetry FoundationIf you follow contemporary poetry but you haven't been following "Project Runway," the popular cable TV show now in its sixth season, you might be surprised to hear that the show holds lessons for poetry critics. To learn them, you first have to know how the TV show works: aspiring fashion d (Read More)
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Some people think that models aren't so smart...but think again! Models like Alek Wek, Irina Pantaeva and Jillian Shanebrook are accomplished authors, so much so that they'll soon be the subject of a course at Princeton. Next semester, the university will offer "Model Memoirs: The Life Stories of International Fashion Model (Read More)
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TechCrunch columnist Paul Carr took to New York’s public radio station WNYC yesterday to discuss the pros and cons of citizen journalism in the context of breaking news. Carr was joined by host Brian Lehrer and journalist and academic Jeff Jarvis, a longtime advocate of citizen journalism.You may recall Paul’s controversia (Read More)
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All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small entrance fee, the fair is already going strong in its 26th year despite a significantly reduced budget, and is celebrating authors big and small. Says the Miami New Times:The (Read More)
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The brouhaha that flared last week when "Publishers Weekly" announced its list of Top Ten Books of the Year, a list that garnered probably unwanted but inevitable attention for not including any books by a female writer, shifted this week from egregious oversight to blatant inaccuracy with the publication of Mary Karr's sea (Read More)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- PepsiCo Inc., looking to freshen up the image of its namesake soda, is pledging to pay at least $20 million for projects people create to "refresh" their communities.The soft drink maker's "Pepsi Refresh Project" will be used throughout next year to market Pepsi soft drinks, including Diet Pepsi and Pepsi M (Read More)
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The new website PoetrySpeaks is aiming to serve as a social networking hub and online marketplace for poets. Visitors are greeted with a sleek, jukebox-style display of poet portraiture and an unpretentious atmosphere. And it's immediately clear that PoetrySpeaks casts a wide net: among the home page's collage of clickabl (Read More)
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Hey kids! Remember that time when South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving his perplexed staff behind to guess that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, except that actually he was off having an affair with his Latin American soul mate? Good times. And the media responded to the (Read More)
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I've never met my fellow PT blogger Sophia Dembling in person but consider her a friend of sorts. We met as members of one or another online writer communities that we both frequent because we have so many overlapping interests. She lives in Texas but her roots are pure New York. I love her sense of humor and her refreshing (Read More)
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In the usually wonky world of non-profit issue-advocacy organizations, a decidedly political campaign has been waged against foreign policy institutions that promote diplomacy over militarism. Two relatively new organizations -- each covering distinctly opposite ends on the spectrum of Middle Eastern affairs -- have been th (Read More)