L30: Is Poetry Dead? Not Quite, Thanks to Poets House I love this article from NYTimes.com (Arts). As a poet myself, I never think that poetry is dead. Has it evolved? Yes, definitely, but it’s still relevant and we hear it everyday in music, hip hop, and in my opinion, jazz is poetry. But thanks to [...]
July 8, 2010
L30: Black Literature News North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color to Hold Public Book Reading and Signing. PLATTSBURGH, NY (07/06/2010)(readMedia)– The North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color will sponsor a public reading and book signing from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 9, in Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall on the [...]
June 23, 2010
L30: Book News from Salon.com ….One thing is true: Aspiring authors have never had more or better options for self-publishing the manuscripts currently gathering dust in their desk drawers or sleeping in seldom-visited corners of their hard drives. Writers can upload their works to services run by Amazon, Apple and (soon) Barnes and Noble, transforming them into [...]
June 23, 2010
L30: Book News from Huffington Post.com: Book Publishing Websites: The Best And Worst (PHOTOS, POLL). Everyone in book publishing has a website. We know Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound and Borders among others sell books on the web. Authors have web sites that tell you about their writing. But what do book publisher websites do? We wanted to [...]
June 12, 2010
L30: Book News & Views Is Star Jones’ Tell-All Novel Based on ‘The View’ Worth Reading? http://blackbirdhome.com/alpha/news/?www.rollingout.com/insiderohome/ro-today/9756-is-star-jones-tell-all-novel-based-on-the-view-worth-reading.html
July 11, 2010
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