Anaximaximum prose: October 2006

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Poetry-writing contest: Young poets: Christian Science Monitor announces its annual poem-competition for youth

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Deadline: Dec1,2k6

Announcement of winner/s: early January,2k7

Christian Science Monitor > The Home Forum > Kidspace
posted October 17, 2006

Calling all young poets
Announcing CSM's 11th annual Young Poets Contest.
Anyone in preschool through high school is eligible. Entries must be postmarked or submitted online by Friday, Dec. 1. We'll publish the winning poems in early January.

Submit up to three poems; you choose the subject. Remember to keep the focus of your poem narrow and your descriptions specific. [Click up the live-link at CSM, where] we provide a few tips for writing a poem. You may also want to read winning poems from previous years - see the winners from 2003, 2004, and 2005.

If you have questions, please e-mail the Home Forum.

Try your wings as a young poet.

-- Anaximaximum

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" Here is an excerpt from the [high school] textbook
The Bible and Its Influence (Bible Literacy Project, Â© 2005):

The Psalms as poetry

" If you are familiar with poetry in English, you may find it difficult to identify the psalms as poems. Hebrew poetry does not rely on rhyme or familiar metrical rhythms. Many of the characteristics of Hebrew poetry are recognizable only when the psalms are read in their original language. Alliteration, wordplay such as puns, and the use of acrostics are lost in translation. Psalm 119, for example, is an acrostic in Hebrew. Each of its verses begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in sequence. That technique is especially appropriate for this psalm, which celebrates the power of God's word in the Scriptures.

" In English translation, however, you can get some idea of the structural technique known as parallelism and the rich use of figures of speech that mark the poetry of the psalms. Hebrew poetry often features verses made up of pairs of lines that parallel one another, echoing or extending the same thought in slightly different language or using inversion for contrast. Here are two examples, from Psalm 19:

" Echo: [A] The heavens declare the glory of God, [B] the sky proclaims His handiwork.

" Extension/Inversion: [A] Day to day makes utterance, [B] night to night speaks out.

[Psalm 19:1-2, New version, Jewish Publication Society of America] "

- by Jane Lampan, CSM Sept29,2k5 sidebar

John Clemo:
The Poet and the Vision

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Some possible poetry blogs that I'm checking out these days were found at Blog Explosion [click the live-link button toward the bottom of this column]. Warning: some blogs have some sexually explicit material, some have noxious political discourse, some are aesthetically underdeveloped, some are subchristian in ultimate values, etc.

Blogueratura [en Espanol, mostly]

Genial, BarÃ²n, Genial

Butterfly Poetress

The Comic Blog

Ekstasis ["Journeys in trance :: meditation :: mysteries::Christ consciousness"]

Schizosabotage

Aurora in the Writers Block

BIG BANG POETRY, Son!

New Images

Subliminal Pop Concept [in Italian mostly, some English-lang poems]

Valspace [drawings, poems, song lyrics]

Poetic Acceptance ["Because acceptance is beautiful and heaven is overrated"]

Craig Hill's Poetry Scorecard

Struga Poetry Evenings Draw 25 Poets From 20 Nations

American poet W.S. Merwin was the recipient of this year's Golden Wreath award, given at the Struga Poetry Evenings on the banks of Lake Ohrid.

By Zoran Nikolovski for Southeast European Times in Skopje, Macedonia -- 06/09/05

The Struga Poetry Evenings [SPE/SVP], dating back to 1962, are considered the world's longest-running poetry festival. The world's longest-running poetry festival was held on the banks of Macedonia's Lake Ohrid late last month. Twenty-five poets from 20 different countries attended the 44th annual Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE), which took place from 25 August to 28 August.

The winner of this year's SPE Golden Wreath award was the American poet W.S. Merwin. It was his third time at the festival.

"This is a great honour for me and I am moved," said Merwin. "I understand the award is given by people who view poetry as having the central place in their lives, as it does in mine."

"Together with this Golden Wreath, we are handing to you our best wishes for good health and many more poems that will succeed in their mission to turn this turbulent world into a better and more humane place rather than a place of war-generated suffering and division," said SPE Managing Board president Zoran Ancevski.

Andrea Cote of Colombia won the Struga Bridges Award, given to the Best Young Poet. The winner of the UNESCO-sponsored prize receives a sculpture representing bridges and a pigeon, created by Macedonian artist Branko Jaksic.

"Poetry has proven to contribute to the world's health, the health of its spirit. I am grateful to you for bringing me to Struga where the lake is unbelievably translucent, just as poetry should be," Cote said.

Delegates of the European Poetry Academy, who met during the festival, said in a joint statement that the Struga Poetry Evenings, initiated in 1962, are an impressive example of the broad range of cross-cultural activities Macedonia sponsors today.

In addition to poetry readings, the SPE also publishes a book series aimed at introducing the work of international authors to Macedonia readers, as well as providing English translations of modern Macedonian poets for foreign readers. This year, the poetry of Tanikawa Suntaru (Japan), Breyten Breytenbach (South Africa), Rita Dove (United States), Lionel Ray (France), Les Murray (Australia), Tarek Eltayeb (Sudan) and Hedi Bouraoui (Canada) will be published within the annual edition.

Huge Christian RapFest 2005, August 13 in the Bronx NYC, extols HipHop, challenges secular counterpart, according to Evangelical Press report, by Tom Campisi .

American Shakespeare Prj click!

Shakespeare's Merchant
from Venice to Vegas
by Chris Hastings,
Arts Correspondent
Telegraph, Londong UK
(Filed: 07/08/2005)

Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, two of Britain's greatest Shakespearean actors, are to star in a film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice set in modern-day Las Vegas. The new Â£20 million movie will shift the action of the Bard's 1596 play from medieval Italy to the flamboyant Venetian Resort, Hotel and Casino in the heart of the Nevada desert. The new version will keep Shakespeare's dialogue but will unashamedly set the action on the resort's versions of the Rialto Bridge, St Marks Square and the Grand Canal. No attempt will be made to pass off the replica settings as the real Venice. On the contrary, Stewart, 65, who is also producing the film, believes that America's gambling capital is the perfect backdrop for Shakespeare's classic tale of reckless gambling, greed and money lending. Controversially, the film is also expected to make use of the city's thriving gay scene as it tries to explore the nature of the relationship between Antonio, the eponymous hero of the play, and Basanio, his young protÃ©gÃ©.

***More Spear Shakes...
All the world's a Shakespeare stage. The playwright's popularity soars as audiences flock to summer festivals, and the Royal Shakespeare Company plans a marathon.By Iris Fanger, Christian Science Monitor, August 12, 2005.

***Yet more Spears, it appears...
The Bard unplugged on the 'Fringe', by Christopher Andreae. And yet more Christian Science Monitor, August 12, 2005.

*** Beware of Poetry Contests offering big rewards online. A whole industry of these rip-offs clusters around a few people and a list of front organizations with separate addresses they maintain around the USA.

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