According to the Oxford American Dictionary, a "Poetry Slam" is, a competition using elimination rounds for the reading or performance of poetry. But that's just the beginning of slam poetry...Read more >>

Our friends at the Village Voice have put a spin on the traditional "beach read" list: several authors recommend their favorite obscure books. Check them out for some refreshing summer reading ideas!

Why collect original poetry publications, or any first editions for that matter? If you accept literature as an art form, and the process of creative writing, then the explanation is simple.Read more >>

Our original challenge was to present our staff recommendations this month in a traditional poem format, but we thought it might be best to let our recommendations speak for themselves. Check out our poetry book suggestions here...Read more >>

Book Town: A book town is a small city or village with a large number of antiquarian and second-hand bookstores. These towns attract bibliophiles and/or host numerous literary festivals.

Archer City, Texas

• Famous native son, Pulitzer Prize & Oscar-winning author, Larry McMurtry owns the Booked Up bookstore
• Movies based on his novels, The Last Picture Show and Texasville, were filmed in Archer City
• The Royal Theater features Late Week Lazy Boy Supper Club, The Texasville Opry and numerous live stage productions

Archer City Shops on Biblio:
Three Dog Books

Does your chld have a summer reading list for school? Bookseller Fran O'Neill provides some tips to save you money and time!Read more >>

The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord
Reviewed by: 7246aramaic
This book has helped me with my own writing: by listening to oral performances in idioms that I like to hear (such as Dylan Thomas on CD; like Scourby's King James Bible cassettes; like the prosodic construction one hears on American streets--the prosody of bus-stops, filling-stations, polling-booths, Wal-Mart-poetics, White-Castle-panhandlers'-whine, etc. etc.)--and by rehearsing these rhythms in at-home speech (to the kitty-of-my-house, in-prayer, singing/chanting, repeating-standout-verbiage) I find that I am enabled to compose in idioms that (with rehearsal) I can truly OWN-- and then with these Pragnanzen I am then able the-better to cast ideas into a lively/living form... Read more >>

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