Posts Tagged ‘festival’
“report from the angel of eden,” and “sorrow song”
Three poems from the former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Hosted by the Aspen Institute, the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival, http://www.aifestival.org, offers its participants a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars, and discussion events that together charged the town of Aspen with vibrant intellectual exchange. Some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers and other leaders drawn from myriad fields and from across the country and around the world all gathered in a single place—to teach, speak, lead, question, and answer.
Duration : 0:7:25
“Seven Caveats in May,” “The Apparition,” and “The Sunday Phone Call”
Duration : 0:7:19
My poetry book is now on Amazon and I opened a Cafe Press store – Also: more vegetable videos on the way soon.
Saving up for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival show now!
Here’s my Amazon store http://eliseharris.com/amazon.html
Cafe Press Store http://eliseharris.com/littleshop.html
or if you prefer go straight to Amazon and do a search for ISBN 978-1445278308 (or just type in my name).
Duration : 0:2:30
“Romantic Moment”
Jane Hirshfield, author of six collections of poetry appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Jane Hirshfield is the author of six collections of poetry, including “After” (which was chosen as one of the best books of 2006 by The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and the London Financial Times). Hirshfield’s other honors include the poetry Center Book Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and “The (London) Times Literary Supplement.” She has been featured many times on Garrison Keillor’s “Writers Almanac” radio program. In 2004 Jane Hirshfield was awarded the 70th Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets, an honor formerly held by such poets as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Elizabeth Bishop.
Duration : 0:14:17