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  Writer's Corner: Poetry & Fiction

Editor: Katie Nealon

Ekphrastic Poetry Reading Video

(Below) The Poem "Unwanted Knowledge" by Patricia Wellingham-Jones

Featured Essay by Katie Nealon Nature Poet or Activist ? ". . .our rising oceans are creating new coasts on our continents, rare and beautiful animal species are disappearing, and the sky continues to darken with smog in industrious areas. The shifts and changes in our current ecological situation have and will continue to effect the way humans live their lives throughout the rest of the 21st Century. For poets and writers everywhere, our changing situation is an especially interesting one. While the ability to write lies within ourselves, most often it is from the outdoors that we draw our inspiration. Focusing primarily on the wilderness and natural state of the world, nature poetry has been an essential and important factor in the literary art since its origins" .Read More.

 

The Poem "The Marshes" by Robert Hass

This poem is dedicated to Mariana Richardson. (1830-1891). Its first line: "She dreamed along the beaches of this coast." Read More

 

 

Biography of Robert Hass

Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States. Read Bio

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Featured Poems by Dennis Brutus

Below are two poems presented by veteran anti-apartheid and global social justice activist Dennis Brutus, in Venezuela for the eighth meeting of the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity and the World Forum for Alternatives, October 18, 2008.

Poem immediately following the conference, in the Hotel Alba overlooking Caracas mountains, 5:50am on October 18, 2008.

Poem delivered at the closing session.

In thanks to President Hugo Chavez and the people of Venezuela,
Dennis Brutus
October 18, Caracas.

 

 

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News

Have you ever wanted to see your name published in print (or on the computer screen)? Words and Tricks Online Literary Arts Journal is currently seeking submissions for their first issue, set to debut in Spring 2010. The deadline is February 15, 2010. The journal is currently working together with the Red Bluff Art Gallery in hosting the Ekphrastic Poetry workshop (March  27, 2010 @ Red Bluff Art Gallery). Participating writers will have a chance to have their poems published both in the Spring 2010 issue, and a special section featuring work from the electronic and in-person workshops. The Spring 2010 issue is not merely restricted to poetry. Art of all forms is accepted. “If you can create it, we can (probably) publish it”..

See the submissions page http://wordsandtricks.net/submissions.aspx for more details and restrictions on how to submit your work.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country's racist system, has died. He was 85.
Brutus' publisher, Chicago-based Haymarket Books, said the writer died in his sleep at his home in Cape Town on Saturday. He had been battling prostate cancer, according to Patrick Bond, who directs the Center for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, where Brutus was an honorary professor.
Brutus was an anti-apartheid activist jailed at Robben Island with Nelson Mandela in the mid-1960s. He helped persuade Olympic officials to ban South Africa from competition from 1964 until apartheid ended nearly 30 years later.
Born in 1924 in what was then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, Brutus was the son of South African teachers who moved back to their native country when he was still a boy. He majored in English at Fort Hare University, which he attended on full scholarship, and taught at several South African high schools.

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