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07.12: Poet Jay Nebel
2015-06-16 23:04:39| Powells Books Events Calendar
Jay Nebel's Neighbors (Saturnalia) is a book of lyric narratives about the men and women who live and work next to us, the people standing in line at the DMV or buying milk and bread at the grocery store. Nebel gives voice to an America lost in the graffiti of park benches and 24-hour diner parking lots, with poems that look through the windows at the secret lives of our neighbors, their affairs and addictions, their curses and loves.
Poet brings world leaders to tears at UN Climate Summit
2014-09-25 17:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The UN Climate Summit has been graced by the likes of actor Leonardi DiCaprio and US President Barack Obama, but the haunting words of a young mother from a tiny Pacific Island nation have made the most lasting impression. Spoken-word poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, 26, from the Marshall Islands, was just one of four people chosen from 544 nominees to address the opening of the UN Climate Summit in New York. In front of an audience of 120 state dignitaries, Jetnil-Kijiner performed a poem she wrote...
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10.12: Poet James Grabill
2014-09-15 22:39:41| Powells Books Events Calendar
Oregon Book Award–winning poet James Grabill presents and reads from his new collection of ecology-themed prose poems, Sea-Level Nerve (Wordcraft of Oregon).
VIDEO: Indian billionaire turns poet
2014-08-22 01:02:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Nadir Godrej, a top executive at one of India's biggest businesses, turns to poetry to describe the challenges facing India's economy.
06.22: Poet Willa Schneberg
2014-05-13 22:38:35| Powells Books Events Calendar
Rending the Garment (Box Turtle Press) is a narrative tapestry encompassing persona poems, prose poems, flash fiction, imagined meetings with historical figures, and ancestral appearances. This series of linked poems is a new work from Oregon Book Award–winning poet Willa Schneberg.