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E-Poetry 2013 submission deadline

Title: E-Poetry 2013 submission deadline

Location: London, England
Description: E-Poetry is a renowned biennial international artistic gathering founded on dialog over emerging issues in digital, visual media arts, sound, and language-based arts. Its emphasis is on literary practice in an encompassing sense, i.e., the practice of thinking through engagement with the material aspects of media forms, the building of community, and the exchange of ideas across languages, borders, and ideologies.

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Date: December 1, 2012

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Charles Simic reads as part of New York University Creative Writing Program Fall Series

Title: Charles Simic reads as part of New York University Creative Writing Program Fall Series

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: All New York University Creative Writing Program Fall 2012 Reading Series events are free and open to the public, and held in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, unless otherwise noted.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winner Charles Simic is the author of many collections, including “Master of Disguises” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). He is a Distinguished Poet-in-Residence in the NYU Creative Writing Program. Simic will be introduced by program director Deborah Landau.

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Date: November 29, 2012

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Sharon Olds reads as part of New York University Creative Writing Program Fall Series

Title: Sharon Olds reads as part of New York University Creative Writing Program Fall Series

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: All New York University Creative Writing Program Fall 2012 Reading Series events are free and open to the public, and held in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, unless otherwise noted.

NYU Creative Writing Program senior faculty member Sharon Olds shares poems from her newly published collection, “Stag’s Leap” (Knopf, 2012). Olds will be introduced by Creative Writing Program Director Deborah Landau.

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Date: November 8, 2012

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Charles Simic reads at Stella Adler Studio of Acting

Title: Charles Simic reads at Stella Adler Studio of Acting

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Charles Simic, one of America’s preeminent poets, will give a reading of his poems at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting on Tuesday, October 23 at 7PM. The reading by Simic, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990 and was named the United States Poet Laureate in 2007, will be appearing as part of the studio’s Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series.

Poet Deborah Landau, Clinical Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University, will introduce Charles Simic and read some of her works as well.

The event is free and open to the public. Learn more here.

Date: October 23, 2012

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Bloomsbury Festival

Title: Bloomsbury Festival

Location: London, England
Description: Bloomsbury is a fascinating place, with an extraordinarily rich history as well as a contemporary and diverse cultural community. Over one extraordinary weekend, the Festival offers a taster of the amazing cultural life of this beautiful area of central London.

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Start Date: October 20, 2012
End Date: October 21, 2012

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Dennis Lee reads at Vancouver Island University

Title: Dennis Lee reads at Vancouver Island University

Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Description: Dennis Lee, the 2012 Gustafson Distinguished Poet Chair, will read selections of his work during a free public lecture at Vancouver Island University’s Malaspina Campus in Nanaimo on October 18. Entitled “Re-greening the Undermusic,” Lee’s lecture will explore the changes in his adult poetry over the last five decades.

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Date: October 18, 2012