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  • November 17th Poetic Ticker Clicking

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 22:10

    News Article Tape: (ragline)___Combined Joint Task Force--82: Poetry and peace___(ragline)___Here and Now: Veteran Brian Turner's Poetry___(ragline)___Radio Free Asia: The Moon Is Up' Pt I___(ragline)___Radio Free Asia: The Moon Is Up' Pt II___(ragli...

  • November 17th forum announcement

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 20:38

    Dear Poetry Aficionados,IBPC: Poetry & Poets in RagsIn News at Eleven, we cover a lot of Asian ground. We begin with poets dancing in Afghanistan, then to a soldier who was in Iraq, then to South Korea, where the poems of teens defected from North Ko...

  • News at Eleven: For the first time, over 100 poets

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 20:15

    and writers from all over Paktika and the surrounding provinces of Ghazni and Khowst came together to read, write and share poetry, Nov. 12.The attending poets gathered within the Shura Hall in the provincial capital of Sharana for a two-day event.Te...

  • News at Eleven: Army Veteran Brian Turner turned his

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 20:14

    experience in Iraq into poetry. His book, "Here, Bullet" captured several awards and also helped to earn him the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. Under the rules of the scholarship, he is required to spend a year outside North America. Turner...

  • News at Eleven: Deceptively simple in style,

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 20:14

    these poems convey stark, poignant scenes from the students' own lives, including loss, separation, and hunger. The title of the collection alone evokes the clandestine nature of their journey to South Korea, of young lives lived in shadow to avoid a...

  • News at Eleven: There was concern in her eyes

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 20:13

    when she [Fatima Bhutto] said that writing is an art born from people's difficulties in their community, politics and family. She is proud of South Asian women explaining brave traditions common among South Asian countries, specifically the emerging...

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5 stars Rus Bowden

Hi A.J.,

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Tuesday nights, I post the best of the news that I found out there during the week.

Yours,
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