Month: January 2013
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Ashmolean Museum – Writing Mesopotamia
Writing Mesopotamia is an exciting series of readings and creative writing workshops from The Poet’s House, Oxford to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War in March-April 2003. Renowned Iraqi poet Adnan al Sayegh and Oxford-based poet Jenny Lewis will read their own poems together in English, some with Arabic translations, exploring…
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Gilgamesh Rising performed by Year One Creative Writing MST group
On Sunday, my poetry cycle Gilgamesh Rising, first performed at the PEN USA Jubilee Festival on Sunset Boulevard, LA, was presented by my talented Year One Creative Writing MSt group. They had less than an hour from receiving the scripts to putting on the performance and did fantastically well. It was great for me to hear the audience…