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Title: Getting Into Poetry I
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library offers this friendly and encouraging ‘absolute beginners’ course on reading poetry for pleasure. Explore rhyme and form. Go beyond the printed page. Discover new poetry with expert advice. Develop your reading strengths. Pick up a ‘toolkit’ of technical terms. Get a personal plan of what to read next.
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Date: October 30, 2012
Title: Getting Into Poetry I
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library offers this friendly and encouraging ‘absolute beginners’ course on reading poetry for pleasure. Explore rhyme and form. Go beyond the printed page. Discover new poetry with expert advice. Develop your reading strengths. Pick up a ‘toolkit’ of technical terms. Get a personal plan of what to read next.
Learn more here.
Date: October 23, 2012
Title: Getting Into Poetry I
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library offers this friendly and encouraging ‘absolute beginners’ course on reading poetry for pleasure. Explore rhyme and form. Go beyond the printed page. Discover new poetry with expert advice. Develop your reading strengths. Pick up a ‘toolkit’ of technical terms. Get a personal plan of what to read next.
Learn more here.
Date: October 16, 2012
Title: Troubadour International Poetry Prize submission deadline
Description: Judged this year by Jane Draycott and Bernard O’Donoghue, the Troubadour International Poetry Prize offers prizes of 1st £2,500, 2nd £500, 3rd £250 and 20 prizes of £20 each, a spring 2013 coffee-house-poetry season-ticket and a prizewinners’ coffee-house poetry reading with the judges.
Poems must be submitted by Monday, October 15, 2012.
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Date: October 15, 2012
Title: George Bowering and David McFadden: Performing the Spoken Word Archive
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description: In this first event of SpokenWeb’s “Performing the Spoken Word Archive” series, poets David McFadden and George Bowering will “read alongside their past selves” using archival audio from the Sir George Williams University Poetry Reading Series, (link below) recorded between 1967 and 1974. Panel discussion to follow with Stuart Ross, Jason Camlot and Darren Wershler.
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Date: October 12, 2012
Title: Carl Phillips reads as part of Denison University’s Beck Lecture Series
Location: Granville, Ohio, US
Description: Denison University’s Beck Lecture Series presents a reading by poet Carl Phillips in the boardroom of Denison University’s Barney-Davis building (200 West Loop). This event is free and open to the public.
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Date: October 8, 2012
Title: All-Ireland Poetry Day
Location: Ireland
Description: All Ireland Poetry Day is now in its 5th year and we hope this year will be the strongest and most comprehensive celebration of poetry and poets alike. The object of the day is to celebrate poetry in every county in Ireland and in a variety of ways via imaginative programming, scheduling, venues and locations.
Once again this year poetry will happen in diverse and unusual locations throughout the whole island of Ireland such as a reading in Terminal 2, Dublin Airport with poet Michael O’Loughlin. Leading poets such as Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Rita Ann Higgins will give a joint reading in the RASI, Merrion Square Dublin.
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Date: October 4, 2012
Title: Tomaz Salamun reads as part of New York University Creative Writing Program Fall Reading 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.
Tomaz Salamun reads as part of the popular Friday Happy Hour poetry reading series. He will be introduced by NYU faculty member and award-winning poet Matthew Rohrer.
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Date: October 12, 2012
Title: Charles Wright reads as part of New York University Creative Writing Program Fall Reading 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.
Charles Wright reads as part of the popular Friday Happy Hour poetry reading series.
Learn more here.
Date: October 5, 2012
Title: Dean Young reads at Seattle Arts and Lectures
Location: Seattle, Washington, US
Description: Seattle Arts and Lectures presents a year of diverse poetic voices, featuring eight of the best emerging and established poets writing today. Dean Young is one of them. He has published over a dozen books, including Elegy on Toy Piano, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2005.
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Date: October 2, 2012