Are you a.) creative b.) artistic c.) romantic d.) disposessed e.) expressive, or f.) just plain cool? Tomorrow is Poem in Your Pocket Day!!! Here are the instructions (thanks, Billette!!):
Print/write out your favorite “pome”, tuck it into your pocket (wallet, purse, thong, etc.) with it poking out, and [...]
more→Looking for inspiration on a Monday morning? Check out Words Without Borders’ March issue, on international poetry!
more→Message from Alisa Shekhtman & Maia Wolins, Vagabond co-Chief Editors:
Calling all Vagabonds! Want to share your multilingual poetry LIVE with UCB?!
Vagabond Journal is looking for volunteers for Calapalooza, which is
happening next Thursday, 8/27, from 5:30 to 9pm. The club fair is a
fantastic opportunity to let incoming freshmen and junior transfers know about Vagabond and give [...]
In case you haven’t seen it, the German Department has a Poetry Corner on its website, featuring poems by Heiko Michael Hartmann, Zafer Senocak, Heinrich Heine and others. The site reads,
An epiphany, a bolt of spiritual lightning, an astonishing conceit, a fleeting insight, a lasting memory–great poetry is all this and more. A [...]
more→Who here learned the English alphabet to the “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” melody? Of course since we have many international readers I’m half expecting a few people to say “I didn’t!” (or maybe you did? I’m curious). Well, from my own experiences growing up, the link between music and language was strong. From more→
A series of four line long poems:
mesmerizing.
reminds me of “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”
more→The King of Bombaria (“Bombagharer Raja”)
“In the land of Bombaria,
The customs are peculiar.
The king, for instance, advocates
Gilded frames for chocolates.
The queen, who seldom goes to bed
Straps a pillow round her head.
The courtiers—or so I am told—
Turn cartwheels when they have a cold
… The King’s old aunt—an autocrat—
Hits pumpkins with her cricket bat
While Uncle loves to [...]
I came across this on the UC Berkeley events page, and it looks pretty cool: “a multimedia poetry reading, featuring an open mic and a guest poet speaker” + thrift sale, all to benefit Darfur. It’s sponsored by the Berkeley Poetry Review, and the event’s in the Heller Lounge of the [...]
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After going to last week’s BLC panel on Digital Storytelling, I was inspired to make a video on Found in Translation for Rick Kern’s “Writing and Technology” course.
download: High-quality version though FIT servers
also viewable through youtube.
I prefer that people watch the high-quality version, since I didn’t make the video [...]
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