Big Circus of Life

Books Editor Clay Smith and Litera columnist Ric Williams handicap which of the 200-plus international poets attending this year's Austin International Poetry Festival will be best bets.

"...highest aspirations and crushing limitations of human desire. Naturally, poets are ignored in an age where finesse is a..."

April 19, 2002 Books Feature by Ric Williams

My Slammer Vacation

How I Spent...

"...illustration by Jason Stout Let 144 poets loose in a sleepy Connecticut town, give them the..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Words Are Bonds

Worlds intersect at the 17th annual Austin International Poetry Festival

"...all kinds of artists – from formalists to performance poets, prize winners to amateurs – to come together across..."

April 17, 2009 Books Feature by Michael Agresta

Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's translations of 20th-century poets enrich our language.

"...literature is rich with translations of the world's major poets, it's easy to forget that in 1970 North Americans..."

July 7, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets

"...The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets..."

May 18, 2007 Books Review by Jess Sauer

Local Anthologies Take Root Growing Up

"...taken by themselves, fully illustrates what's happening among Austin's poets today. But together, the works chronicle many of the..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature by Phil West

Poetry Festival Continues

"...the event that gave us the Day of 100 Poets and last year's all-night open mike stage at Cafe..."

April 4, 1997 Books Feature

Gathering Up the Wanderers

The Austin International Poetry Festival

"...Drive carefully this weekend. Two hundred poets will be wandering from cafe to bookstore to bar,..."

April 16, 2004 Books Feature by Abe Louise Young

In With the Old, In With the New

"...comes in the form of a trio of performance poets committed to the page. Throughout this pile of works,..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Books Feature by Phil West

Slouching Toward Iambic Pentameter

Recent Poetry From the Bottom Up

"...Poetry Show, San Francisco's Manic D Press featured four poets in a show-stopping showcase. The Bay Area duo represented..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Reading Aloud

SXSW 97 Spoken Word Showcases

"...year's lineup boasts some of the most accomplished slam poets in the nation. Individual finalists, team competition finalists, poets..."

March 14, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Slam Sisters

The Women of the World Poetry Slam brings Austin a spoken-word contest that's about more than scores

"...spoken-­word performance in which members of the audience score poets and determine the winner...."

March 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Postscripts

Highlights of the Austin International Poetry Festival and critic Neil Postman's upcoming visit to Austin.

"...... and grown to the point that over 260 poets have been invited to participate this year at 27..."

April 7, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Austin International Poetry Festival

"...week, follows a deceptively simple formula: Get as many poets into town as possible and let them read. Over..."

April 16, 1999 Books Feature

Fringe Feast

"...the usual super-sized gamut of selections, thanks to Austin Poets at Large's Fringe Fest. Fringe Fest, run concurrently with..."

April 9, 1999 Books Feature

Do They Dare?

Austin Team Portland-Bound for the National Poetry Slam

"...The sports metaphor works: During the regular season, individual poets compete against one another in The Slam, with each..."

July 26, 1996 Books Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Best of Print 1995

Words: Printed, Spoken, and Painted

"...his demeanor is kind and charming. Of the gifted writers UT has brought to town this past year, Lee..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Books Feature

Words for Words

Spoken-word artists on their art form, the National Poetry Slam, and one another

"...the buzzer, and, yes, its Bill Bucknerian blunders. For poets like me, who never gave up our impulse to..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Arts Feature

Slam as It Ever Was

The nationals come to Austin amid the polarizing medium's 20th anniversary

"...at a South Austin dive bar. Don't worry: They're poets, semiretired. One – Penn Jillette in timber and ponytail,..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Shawn Badgley

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work (Rhino WordBeat)

National Records

"...Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work (Rhino WordBeat) This 2-CD collection of..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Review by Greg Beets

Huckleberry Minh: A Walk Through Dreamland

"...May 29 at 2pm. Roundup: An Anthology of Texas Poets From 1973 until 1998..."

May 28, 1999 Books Review

Litera

Lectures, Classes, Misc.

"...be a connection to the spiritual. The works of poets and writers who used their art to express the..."

March 14, 1997 News Feature

Word Is Out

After Broadway, Def Poetry Jam goes national and Austin's Pro Arts Collective snags them

"...series – so he had reason to believe that poets could find an audience on the Great White Way...."

Feb. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postscripts

Texas politicians just decided who the state's next poet laureate is.

"...Poets Laureate Appointed..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

In Good Company

A casual spectator might not realize just how much Robert Creeley's long literary career -- he's 73 this year -- has been conducted on the edge. But Creeley not only had a finger on the pulse of American poetry, he's usually been a heartbeat or two ahead of it.

"...of Robert Creeley as one of the "good gray poets" of postmodern America. After all, a poet must be..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Books Feature by Craig Arnold

South by Spoken Word

No Slam, Thank You, Ma'am

"...no one event that brings a bigger collective of poets to Austin from other destinations...."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature by Phil West

Festival Notes

"...Although most of the 400 poets (hailing from Austin to Australia) will read during the..."

March 28, 1997 Books Feature

Austin Free Poetry Festival

"...& Lamar), is intended as a warm-up for local poets and volunteers who will drive the Fifth annual AIPF..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Books Feature

Poet Marlys West

"...publications. Her spoken word work with the Blue Plate Poets has been heard on the stage of the Electric..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Books Feature

The State of Naomi Shihab Nye

The well-traveled poet talks about loving Texas and being this year’s recipient of the Texas Book Festival’s Texas Writer Award

"...life. Recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, at this week’s Texas Book Festival she will..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

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