Granoff Spring Festival

I am a member of the Student Creative Arts Council and we are currently looking for submissions for the Spring Arts Festival that will take place in the Granoff Center on April 27th and 28th. After seeing your work on display at the Granoff, I thought you might be interested.
The Student Creative Arts Council is looking for submissions of 2D, 3D, music, video, and/or performance pieces to be performed, shown or created at the annual Spring Arts Festival
The Spring Arts Festival is a celebration of the enormous creative efforts and capabilities of the Brown University Community. The two-day event will feature installations, performances, screenings, and lectures, and aims to promote the diverse forms of art generated and inspired here on campus.
The deadline for submissions is March 13th, 2012.

To submit, please send an e-mail to studentcreativearts@gmail.com with the following information:

1. Name/Year:

2. Project Description:

3. Medium:

4. Dimensions:

5. Facility/Tech/Installation needs:

6. Photos/Videos of the project (if possible)

Best,

Elizabeth Woodward

Keats' + his referents

William Shakespeare, April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616

John Milton, December 9, 1608-November 8, 1674 

Robert Burns, January 25, 1759-July 21, 1796

William Wordsworth, April 7, 1770-April 23,  1850

William Hazlitt, April 10, 1778-September 18, 1830

Gordon, Lord Byron, January 22, 1788-April 19, 1824

Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 4, 1792-July 8, 1822

John Keats, October 31, 1795-February 23, 1921

The Middle East and Freedom of Expression

Brown Literary Arts Event

Mysteries of the Vernacular

http://www.mysteriesofvernacular.com/

Not strictly poetry, but click on the link if you are someone who loves words and etymology!

Jessica Orek is usually a documentary filmmaker, but she decided to take a break and create a series of short animations (26, one for each English letter) that explore the history and mystery of the vernacular. There's only one episode so far, but it's really great so keep an eye out for updates to the project!

from A Book of Hours

   Beside a stream a man is reading.  He sits against a tree, one knee drawn up as support

for his book.  Next to him a long slender pole is propped; a line dangles into the water.

   The open pages of the book show an illustrated, gilded scene: a tiny figure by a stream, fields giving onto a town beyond.  In the fields, men and women bend over curved bundles of wheat.  Their scythes make dark punctuations of the harvest.

   The man smiles, as if pleased with what he sees.  Then he yawns and looks over at

the pole.  He shifts his gaze a bit and considers the prospect of the town in the distance:

the familiar spires and gables.  He surveys the fields, before returning to the book.

   A shadowiness comes over the surrounding landscape, as if a cloud were passing in front of the sun.  It is the man’s hand, about to turn the page.

Barry Yourgrau

cross wise writing

Anne Warren Weston, Boston Public Library, look here too

First Page of Endymion