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Wave Books Poetry BusThe day wave books poetry bus tour is being billed as the continent's biggest poetry tour ever. But wave's bus contains poets beyond its own stable of regulars and not just american poets. But in the case of the poetry bus which is stopping in phoenix tonight the spoken word needs a tour vehicle of its own. There should always be a bus constantly traveling the world showcasing poetry tucson based poet richard siken said.To pick up and drop off poets in various towns in order to promote a rebirth of poetry. The point of the project to remind us all that poetry is alive and well in the united states. We've had poets get on the bus in almost every city and in missoula mont. Fambrough adds that poets joshua beckman and matthew zapruder both wave books editors and uga graduate travis nichols are the three constants on the tour. When poets come to pay as much attention to how they liveas to what they write that may mark one new beginning for poetry. The above quote is from a piecethat suggests or rather demands that poetryin order to breatheagain in our culture. Prior to his reading poetry fans are invited to attend a free and unstructured slate of readings behind john m. For more information read about on the smith college poetry center page. Number of times wave books tour planner was turned down by various las vegas casinos company credo books seeks to make the world safe for poetry. Finally we have reached the next generation of literary bus proselytizers. The tour is being organized by wave books a seattle based poetry press. Others will stick around longer like year old cole heinowitz who plans to spend two nights on the bus in october. The bus stops on portland's latest gentrification project mississipi avenue tuesday october th. Don't expect variety when the wave books poetry bus tour stops in portland. Sponsored by wave books the poetry bus will go more places with more poets reading more poems than was ever previously believed possible. Tags: books a cummings book children contests poetry poetry poetry random |
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