Michael Grabell, a former Dallas Morning News writer and sometimes Texas Pages contributor who now works for ProPublica, has achieved the distinction of being included in both Best American Poetry 2009 The same poem was also published in Best New...
Poems on the themes of science, science fiction or technology will be featured this month at the 2nd Tuesday Poetry Series, to be held 7 p.m. Tuesday (Sept. 8) at the Benbrook Public Library. Readers are invited to recite their...
I wanted to open my day with poetry. Birdsong had already done its warm-up act. So I went to hear the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, the daugher of a Palestinian father and an American mother. She spoke of poetry that...
Paul Guest's My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge is reviewed today on GuideLive. Here's a sample of his work, provided by HarperCollins. My Arms By Paul Guest My arms are mostly cosmetic. When I say this to a stranger, often...
Here's something pleasant and Texasy to start the day. It's John Updike, reading a poem titled "Atlanta-Dallas/Ft Worth, 11:10 p.m." Somewhere in Texas, a drill team has been immortalized. Mr. Updike's The Widows of Eastwick is due out Oct. 21....
Not the fireworking kind? The Dallas Poets Community's monthly poetry reading takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at Half Price Books, 5803 E. Northwest Highway. It's an open mic event. But the organizers note: "...with freedom comes responsibility...
Shin Yu Pi, one of the original bloggers on Texas Pages, departed for cooler climes awhile back. But fans will be able to find her work in a new project, Haiku Not Bombs, being published by the Booklyn Artist Alliance....
If you're in Dallas, you can at least look forward to this event on Friday: Cliff Roberts, founder and president of the Fort Worth Haiku Society, will read 7 p.m. that dat at Priya Yoga Studio, 6337 Prospect. If you're...
Has DART really been displaying poetry on its buses and trains for a whole decade now? Yes, it has. And the newest samples were revealed this morning. These newest posters, DART says in a press release, feature Texas poets Joaquin...
I know that many of you have been enjoying Michael Grabell's "Morning Verse" selections. So be sure to catch him, along with Jack Myers, Tammy Gomez and Charlot Nace at The Writer's Garret's National Poetry Month Reading 7 p.m. Friday...
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