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Searing words: Nepal's prize-winning poet with cerebral palsy, Jhamak Kumari Ghimire

Next issue of Luciole will include tribute to Scott Wannberg; you can submit poems, photos, memories, anything

Sad to announce, Luciole's dear mighty contributing poet and friend Scott Wannberg has passed

Check out Luciole's fab contributing author Martyn Clayton's new facebook page

Sent in by Scott Evans, a 2 for 1 deal for Blue Moon Literary & Art Review issues

Aerial view of the Glastonbury Festival. Luciole's Ellyn Maybe will perform Sunday!

Congrats to Luciole's wonderful poet goddess Ellyn Maybe! She and her band leave for Glastonbury today!

Irish writer Colum McCann wins IMPAC Dublin prize

Borders staves off closing of six bookstores

Ancient Assyrian dictionary finished — after 90 years

Please come "like" the Luciole Press fan page on Facebook

New York bookstore stocks only one book, with the author as cashier -- "Ed's Martian Book"

Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at age 99

Jennifer Egan wins fiction Pulitzer Prize

Firefly quote from Luciole friend/contributing poet Ellyn Maybe

Help Luciole's wonderful poet Ellyn Maybe and her band in their epic journey to make it to the Glastonbury Festival!

Verse from Emily Dickinson

Mystery visitor missing second year in a row at Poe's grave

Quote from Christina Rossetti

Poem by Margaret Atwood: "The Moment"

"India's great provocateur" Khushwant Singh to release last book at age of 96

New Year's poem from Luciole friend/contributing poet Scott Wannberg, "big year end sale on better mousetraps"

Thomas Hardy's beloved home to throw its doors open to the madding crowd

New poem from Luciole friend/contributing poet Scott Wannberg: "go home, moon..."

Quote from Anna Akhmatova

New poem from Luciole friend/contributing poet Scott Wannberg: "viable gust of wind"

Book launch for Luciole friend/contributing author Gerry McCullough's "Belfast Girls"

Beautiful, Scott. New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "i'd like to thank the following people...my so called 'thanksgiving' riff 2010"

Check out Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe and her band at the Poetry Rodeo at Beyond Baroque Dec. 2!

The Desperate Romantics – as never seen before

New Book: Fire in the Marrow, by Luciole friend/contributor William Crawford. Read my blurb at the bottom of the page :)

Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson for the day

Oxford University's Bodleian Library receives 1,000 new books a day

Bohemian landmark NYC Hotel Chelsea up for sale

Mark Twain back on best-seller lists with memoir

New poem from Luciole Press friend and contributor Scott Wannberg: "almost recess time"

Lost Kafka writings resurface; court orders them to be removed from private possession

Poem: "As One Listens To The Rain" by Octavio Paz

Giant predatory whale named for 'Moby-Dick' author

E-books pave way for more blockbusters, serials

Poem: "Has My Heart Gone To Sleep?" by Antonio Machado

Luciole Press friend and contributor, author and publisher Ami Kaye, has a new book and a new website to check out!

Poem: "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth

Poem: "Past One O’Clock ..." by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Poem: "Morning in the Burned House" by Margaret Atwood

Review: Book celebrates 50 years of `Mockingbird'

Simon & Schuster hires new publisher, Jonathan Karp

Poem: "A Dream Within A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

Poem: "i carry your heart with me" by E. E. Cummings

Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

"Charlotte and Emily" tells superb tale of Brontës

Author Isabel Allende sets new book in Haiti

The Lost Reading List: 13 Books That Helped Mold the Series

Poem: "Courage" by Anne Sexton

New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg, "make everything up as it goes"

New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "a new day just might be coming"

From Luciole friends: Aine MacAodha blogs about the wonderful new issue of Pirene's Fountain, brought to you by publisher Ami Kaye and her dedicated team! Great job, everyone!

Woke up this morning and thought about Alphonse de Lamartine's "The Lake," which I have posted before. So, two other poems, "Butterfly" and "Memory"

Found an essay about one of my favorite poets, Rosalía de Castro

Quote about living from Agatha Christie; painting, "Moon" by Alphonse Mucha

Poem: "Love's Justification" by Michelangelo, translated by William Wordsworth

George Washington racks up late fees at NY library

Carolyn M. Rodgers dies at 69: the Chicago poet helped found Third World Press (one of the country's oldest and largest black-owned book publishers)

Congrats to dear Luciole friend/contributor S.A. Griffin! Article in The Guardian: "For this poet, bombing at a reading won't be bad"

Lord Of The Rings prequel made by actress Kate Madison for £25,000 -- "Born of Hope" has scored 500,000 views on the internet (see it here)

'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

Mystery visitor of the past 60 years to Poe's grave is a no-show for the first time

New book review: "The Cracked Ceiling" examines women in politics

Poems from Luciole Press Autumn Issue 2009 -- Kumari de Silva

Poem: "The More Loving One" by W. H. Auden

First edition of Lewis Carroll's classic book "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" sells at auction for $115,000

Stephen King and his wife donate money so 150 soldiers can come home for the holidays

Brought to my attention by Lena, new book! "Quills of Fire" by Marilyn Campiz and Lena Vanelslander

WWII vet returns art book he stole from Hitler's home

Two poems by Margaret Atwood: "The Moment" and "Night Poem"

Poem: "This Side Of The Truth" by Dylan Thomas

Rare copy of Poe's first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" sells for $662,500 in NYC

Poem: "An Autumn Evening" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

From Luciole contributor/friend S.A. Griffin: Submit to The Poetry Bomb!!

From Amanda Oaks: "words dance is open for submissions!"

TIME article -- "Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy?"

Quote and poem from Hafiz ("The Tulip")

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Poem: "In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

Poem: "i carry your heart with me" by E. E. Cummings

Quotes from Victor Hugo

Poem: "An Autumn Sunset" by Edith Wharton

New literary star Marie NDiaye takes on France's old guard; she is the author of "Trois femmes puissantes" ("Three Powerful Women")

Quote from Oscar Wilde

Luciole contributor and friend Aine MacAodha will be interviewed and read her poetry on a radio show this Thursday!

Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished a three-month road trip in which he visited the graves of 150 poets in 23 states

October 2009 issue of Pirene's Fountain now available! Note from Luciole friend and contributor Ami Kaye

A new book has collated some of the best - and worst - advice from the 1800s to the Swinging Sixties

Luciole contributor Scott Owens and Poetry Hickory (North Carolina) have a new website

Trailblazers: The early women aviators -- from the Flying Baroness to the Fiancee Of Danger

Poem: "By Candlelight" by Sylvia Plath

Luciole's Scott Wannberg and David Smith will have readings in NYC and Ohio. Scott's note: "scott and david's excellent new york adventures....coming soon!!!!"

Poem: "Fireflies in the Garden" by Robert Frost

Poem: "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats

Dracula legend revived by Bram Stoker descendant