Literary Archives Rerecord History
Naropa University has established the Naropa Audio Preservation and Access Project to archive the program's vast holdings of recorded readings, lectures, panel discussions, and workshops.
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Publisher of Poetry Receives $100 Million From Heir to Lilly Fortune
The Modern Poetry Association, publisher of Poetry, the
90-year-old literary magazine based in Chicago, is the recipient of
what could be the largest single donation ever made to a nonprofit
literary organization.
Alice James Books Marks Thirty Years
Alice James Books has published about 130 books by an eclectic list of poets including Jane Kenyon, Fanny Howe, B.H. Fairchild, Timothy Liu, and Rita Gabis, and it will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a yearlong schedule of events in 2003.
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A Global Book Club's Traveling Titles
After finishing About a Boy by Nick Hornby, a reader in New York City left it on a Starbucks magazine rack with hopes that someone would pick up the novel and read it. Two days later a reader from Delta, British Columbia, found the book, took it back to Canada, read it, and left it in the waiting room of a dentist's office, where it found its way into the hands of another local reader. The tracking of such a literary journey is made possible by a unique online book club called BookCrossing.com.
Resurrecting an Ancient Library
Two thousand years after it was destroyed by fire, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina—the mythic Egyptian library that at one time boasted a universal collection of everything ever written—as reopened to the public on October 16.
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Translation, Please: Why We Need It Now More Than Ever
The task of bringing literature into another language means transporting an entire culture, its shame as well as its triumphs.
Literary MagNet
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features New Letters, Brick, The Ohio Review, 96 Inc, Poetry Review, Gloss, and Explorations.
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Festival Promotes French, American Literary Exchange
French and American poets, writers, and editors will meet at the Festival of Literary Magazines in New York City to discuss translation, tradition, funding, and cross-cultural and cross-genre influences on their publication practices.
Banned Books Week Celebrates Freedom of Expression
Banned Books Week 2002, a "celebration of your freedom to read," is September 21 to September 28.
U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Reads 9/11 Poem to Congress
Billy Collins, who is serving his second one-year term as U.S. poet laureate, read a poem during a special session of Congress held in New York City on Friday, September 6.
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