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

Posted by kluciole at 2/28/2010 3:31 AM | Add Comment

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)

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2010 3:49 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2010 11:26 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2010 5:15 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2010 2:35 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:50 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:40 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:04 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:43 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:40 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2009 8:28 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/8/2009 5:09 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 8:28 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/4/2009 6:51 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Poem: "An Autumn Evening" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:57 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:47 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:42 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 1:06 PM | Add Comment

Quote and poem from Hafiz ("The Tulip")

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:47 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Poem: "In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:21 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 8:00 PM | Add Comment

Quotes from Victor Hugo

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:09 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "An Autumn Sunset" by Edith Wharton

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:19 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2009 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Oscar Wilde

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2009 2:50 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 6:01 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2009 9:41 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2009 6:19 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2009 6:19 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2009 11:03 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2009 8:20 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "By Candlelight" by Sylvia Plath

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2009 6:52 AM | Add Comment

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!!!!"

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 6:09 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Fireflies in the Garden" by Robert Frost

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2009 9:04 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Poem: "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2009 2:11 AM | Add Comment

Dracula legend revived by Bram Stoker descendant

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2009 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Luciole contributor Kumari de Silva will be reading at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for Kern County Library’s new New Frazier Park Branch on November 7th

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2009 10:32 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Anne Sexton

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2009 4:08 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Posting for Luciole's Puma Perl: Reading this November 5th, featuring many fine writers, including Luciole's David Smith, Scott Wannberg, and Puma in NYC

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2009 4:07 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "The Man's Last Wish" by Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817) -- Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salonist

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 11:40 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Happy National Poetry Day in the UK! Received this in my inbox from the Poetry Society

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 3:41 AM | Add Comment

Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 3:30 AM | Add Comment

Congratulations to Luciole contributor Gill O'Halloran for her fine new book, "This Seven Year Old Walks into a Bar"

Posted by kluciole at 10/6/2009 1:51 AM | Add Comment

Sent in by Amanda Oaks: Verve Bath Press SALE!

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 1:27 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press contributor Puma Perl will be on the Joe Milford Poetry Show on October 18th

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 1:01 PM | Add Comment

Congrats to Luciole friend and contributor S.A. Griffin, whose work is in the new anthology: "Mezcla: Art & Writing from the Tumblewords Project." He has an extensive reading schedule -- catch him live!

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:56 AM | Add Comment

Luciole friends and contributors in a 2-day extravaganza of reading glory: David Smith and Scott Wannberg Oct. 10th at Skylight Books, and David, Scott, Ellyn Maybe and S.A. Griffin at Beyond Baroque on Oct. 11 (Los Angeles)

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2009 3:01 AM | Add Comment

Press Release: Luciole's Dena Rash Guzman will be reading with Sister Spit this Sunday, October 4th, in Las Vegas. Rock on, Dena! ;)

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2009 2:37 AM | Add Comment

Little girl at the window: Only known film of Anne Frank is posted on YouTube

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2009 2:09 AM | Add Comment

Excerpt from a short story by Jeanette Winterson, in response to the climate crisis

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:37 AM | Add Comment

The incredible, thought-provoking short story "To Kill a Child," by Stig Dagerman

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 2:31 AM | Add Comment

Happy Labor of Love: The new Autumn 2009 Issue of Luciole Press is now published -- celebrating our 2nd Anniversary --

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2009 12:37 AM | View Comments (20) | Add Comment

Poem: "A Proud Lady" by Elinor Wylie, contemporary of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Posted by kluciole at 9/5/2009 10:05 PM | Add Comment

National Book Festival in Washington, Sept. 26

Posted by kluciole at 9/5/2009 10:02 PM | Add Comment

Computer algorithm to decipher ancient texts (plus, photos of a newly discovered 3,700-year-old wall in Jerusalem)

Posted by kluciole at 9/2/2009 10:24 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Plus-size model Crystal Renn is comfortable in her own skin, and author of "Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves"

Posted by kluciole at 9/1/2009 8:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: tenor Bjoern Christian Kuhn in the role of Edgar Allan Poe on stage in Halle, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 9:45 PM | Add Comment

Find Anne of Green Gables (and Lucy Maud Montgomery) on Prince Edward Island

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:45 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Places and Men" by William Allingham, a colleague of Rossetti, Millais, Tennyson, and more

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2009 9:10 AM | Add Comment

Just received David Smith's wonderful new book -- White Time -- for which I happily wrote a blurb. Available at Off Beat Pulp

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 6:17 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Poem: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "Memento"

Posted by kluciole at 8/22/2009 12:25 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon

Posted by kluciole at 8/21/2009 12:27 AM | Add Comment

Another poem by Jane Kenyon: "Happiness"

Posted by kluciole at 8/18/2009 7:48 AM | Add Comment

From Scott Wannberg, poet and Luciole Press contributor: he will have two readings in Los Angeles - on October 10 at Skylight Books, and October 11th with Ellyn Maybe at Beyond Baroque

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2009 4:44 AM | Add Comment

Poem: "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2009 11:11 PM | Add Comment

Bird experiment shows Aesop's fable may be true

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 10:33 PM | Add Comment

Poem by Hilda Doolittle (who was engaged briefly to Ezra Pound): "Evadne"

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2009 6:27 AM | Add Comment

A fantastic poem from Julie Hill Alger: "Lesson 1"

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2009 3:05 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Julie Hill Alger, "Pictures of Home"

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2009 11:11 PM | Add Comment

Follow-up to previous post: How to get a signed copy of Scott Wannberg's new book, strange movie full of death

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2009 2:57 AM | Add Comment

From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm's series: FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -130- RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2009 2:40 AM | Add Comment

New film version of "Rats of NIMH" in works

Posted by kluciole at 7/28/2009 1:55 AM | Add Comment

Sorry for the delay in posting this; Scott Wannberg's new book -- strange movie full of death -- is now available for purchase at Perceval Press!

Posted by kluciole at 7/27/2009 8:15 AM | Add Comment

From Luciole Press contributor/author Kurt Kamm's ongoing series: WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS -126- “I HAVE ARRIVED”

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2009 12:39 AM | Add Comment

Poem: John Masefield, "A Ballad of John Silver"

Posted by kluciole at 7/20/2009 11:47 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Anne Sexton, "Admonitions To A Special Person"

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2009 1:29 AM | Add Comment

Poem: Willa Cather's "The Hawthorn Tree"

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2009 10:50 PM | Add Comment

Frank McCourt (author of Angele'a Ashes) is gravely ill with meningitis, brother says

Posted by kluciole at 7/16/2009 1:33 PM | Add Comment

From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -123 - WASTING MY TIME??

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2009 10:27 PM | Add Comment

Article on previously featured and much loved poet Mary Oliver: "The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown"

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2009 1:42 AM | Add Comment

From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS - 120- RESCUE ON THE MOUNTAIN - (Salmon River, Idaho)

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2009 11:36 PM | Add Comment

Two poems by New England poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925): "The Giver of Stars" and "At Night"

Posted by kluciole at 7/2/2009 3:26 AM | Add Comment

One of my favorites: Eudora Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O."

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2009 8:05 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

So sorry to be behind in posting this info: One more day of The Riverwood Poetry Festival! Includes Luciole Press friends/contributors S.A. Griffin, Scott Wannberg and David Smith!

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2009 9:27 PM | Add Comment

From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -115- FINDING A PULSE

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2009 2:04 AM | Add Comment

I have just received the new chap from Rose of Sharon Press (publisher S.A. Griffin): "Let Everybody Come In" by Scott Wannberg. I love it very much!

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:22 PM | Add Comment

From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm's ongoing seires: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -114- THE FLAME INSIDE

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 8:58 AM | Add Comment

Fantastic news from Luciole Press friends and contributors S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg! Just published -- "New chap: Let Everybody Come In by Scott Wannberg!"

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2009 6:47 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press friend and contributer Geraldine Green will be at the 2009 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Woodyfest Poets in Okemah, OK, on July 11th

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2009 6:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Graphic by Mark Hartenbach of S.A. Griffin. Read contributor/friend S.A.'s essay on his page at Luciole Press

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:33 PM | Add Comment

Another poem from Delmira Agustini: "El Poeta Leva el Ancla/Weighing the Anchor"

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 12:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Poet francEyE's memorial will be June 21st at 1 pm at the church in Ocean Park

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 11:20 PM | Add Comment

Happy Father's Day to all. From author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm's series: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -112- PROUD FATHER

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 11:17 PM | Add Comment

From the ongoing series sent in by author/Luciole Press contributor Kurt Kamm: FIREFIGHTER'S WORDS -111- AN EMT'S TEARS

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2009 5:02 PM | Add Comment

Another poem from previously featured poet Delmira Agustini: "El Nudo" ("The Knot")

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Louise Bogan, "The Crossed Apple"

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 6:40 AM | Add Comment

My poem: "ME 1127"

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2009 12:41 PM | View Comments (17) | Add Comment

Please read the new issue of Pirene's Fountain (which kindly includes some of my poetry)

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 1:56 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

francEyE, a gifted poet (she has a page at Luciole Press), has passed away... March 19, 1922 - June 2, 2009

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2009 10:46 AM | Add Comment
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