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Special World Poetry Cafe Radio Celebration Program! A Tribute to John Keats! Sept. 15th on CFRO! 9 pm PST

By worldpoetry on September 8, 2009 - 10:25pm

Special Radio Celebration Program! A Tribute to John Keats!
World Poetry Café Celebrates the famous English Poet John Keats.
Sept. 15,
9:00 PST.
Co-op Radio CFRO, 102.7 FM
To listen on the internet, go to: www.coopradio.org or by satellite: STARCHOICE 845
You can also download the show by going to archives after the show.
The show will feature a biography of John Keats and some of his poems in English and Spanish.
Also featured: the Tribute to John Keats Poetry Contest winners selected by judges Carol Knepper, Dr. Lucia Gorea and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
Additional selected poems by contestants will also be read.

This program is in partnership with TVA films for their film BRIGHT STAR which will be opening in major theatres across Canada on September 18th.
BRIGHT STAR, which is a historic love story about the life and times of the famous poet John Keats, will be premiering as a favorite at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It stars Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw and is directed by Academy Award Winner Jane Campion. It is a very special film to the studio and the surrounding literature, poetry and spoken word community in many cities across Canada and throughout the US and England because of the impact Keats had on the literary world.
Bright Star
View the trailer now at: http://www.tribute.ca/movies/Bright+Star/19106

World Poetry Cafe Radio Show Proudly Presents MELANIE FAITH, Jan. 13th!

By worldpoetry on January 11, 2009 - 1:40am

Host Ariadne Sawyer and Diego Bastianutti welcome a phone in guest from the United States on Jan. 13. The show starts at 9 pm PST.
Featured poet:
MELANIE FAITH is an author and educator who holds an MFA in Creative Writing
from Queens University of Charlotte, NC (2007). Her current poetry chapbook,
Bright Burning Fuse, was a finalist in the 2008 Keyhole Magazine Chapbook
contest and was published by Etched Press (www.etchedpress.com ) in Dec.
2008. She has been a small-town newspaper journalist, an ESL classroom
teacher for international students, and (currently) a literature and writing
tutor at a private high school in rural Pennsylvania. In addition to writing
two novels seeking representation, her articles about creative writing
appeared in RWR (Dec. '08) and will be published in The Writer (Nov. '09).
Her poems and landscape and architectural photography recently appeared or
will appear in MO: Writings From The River (Montana State University, Spring
'09 issue), The Broken Plate (Ball State University, April '09 issue), Shape
of a Box (Dec. '08, www.youtube.com/shapeofabox), The Binnacle (University
of Maine), Mademoiselle's Fingertips, Emprise Review and The Iguana Review.
She welcomes literary messages or chapbook orders at writer@pa.net.
Listen on line:Go to www.coopradio.org and follow the links to the World Poetry Cafe or listen