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  • Line in Time: Word for Word

    This week starts Tuesday evening with the Word-4-Word Poets at Aromas Coffeehouse in Newpoet News. Then Thursday evening the Kinship of Authors features Dr Natalia Roberston speaking about her book The Slave Ship Clotilda at the Hampton Library. [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:33am EST
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  • Billy Boom Train – Wins the Gold

    Chesapeake resident Brian Batts has won a gold Parents Choice Award for the Fall of 2009. Brian's illustrated children's book with audio also has been highly praised by readers on Amazon.com. He wrote the story and composed the music for the book. Charles Long of Norfolk illustrated the book. [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:50pm EST
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  • Fence Things Going On

    Fence is not locally based, but I think it’s a good literary review for new poets to check out. I like its contemporary flare and occasional edge. Plus, how can I not tell you about a the issue with Rainer Maria Rilke in it? From Fence Books: Pretty soon a [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:13am EST
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  • This American Life challenge

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    If you don’t listen to This American Life on 89.5, you should. And, beyond its great storytelling, I’ll give you another reason to listen: A writing challenge. The Challenge: Listen to this week’s This America Life and then write a poem, flash fiction story (less than 500 words) or piece of 2D [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:13am EST
    by Deb Markham

  • TReehouse: You are what you eat

    From Tom Robotham of TReehouse magazine, which is a locally-based online publication…. Please take a look at Angela Blue’s new piece on TReehouse–You Are What You Eat. I still eat meat of all kinds, but often feel like a hypocrite because I don’t know whether I could kill a mammal [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:12am EST
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  • ALP: Like Coins, November

    BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I love poems in which the central metaphors are fresh and original, and here’s a marvelous, coiny description of autumn by Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck, who lives in Illinois. Like Coins, November We drove past late fall fields as flat and cold as sheets of tin and, [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:38am EST
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  • Poetry: 2 June

    W. W. Yoder, III of Chesapeake VA shares the experience of a June day turn night after hours stuck inside during choir practice. Although the author doubts the sense of practicing indoors, he finds solace in the evening. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:54am EST
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  • We have a new submissions process!

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    You now can easily submit your work to us by sending an email via Posterous.com. Here are the steps: 1. Open up a new email. 2. Create at title and compose the body just as you would like to see it published on our site. Please include your name and city of residence [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:11am EST
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  • Muse News: Comic Book Writing

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    Comic Book Writing Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., a 6 week session beginning November 18 Only 5 seats remain. Visit www.the-muse.org/workshops.html or call 818-9880 to register. Graphic novels, manga and comic books have become a major sector in the field of literature and a principal source of inspiration for other media. T Campbell presents a set [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:05am EST
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  • Line in Time: Local poetry this week

    Greetings Y’all Poets, Bards n Troubadours.Saturday Jack Callan had a triumphal overtime reading from his new book “Knucklehead Poems” at Iris Art Studio in Poquoson. If you weren’t there, you MISSED it BIG TIME. This weekend 5 of us from PSV were privileged to hob-knob with countless English and Language Arts [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:53pm EST
    by Pete Freas

  • Video: 13 Seconds in Ghent

    Oct. 17, 2009, Stockley Garden Fall Arts Festival: I promised I would visit Hollywood in her booth. I did. I also took photos of a few of the locals wandering nearby her tent. Vinny Peculiar hit the stage, and I took a few shots of him too. Later I wandered to Cogan’s with Lea Anne Douglas, where [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:06pm EST
    by Deb Markham

  • ALP: Bach in the DC Subway

    BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 It’s likely that if you found the original handwritten manuscript of T. S. Eliot’s groundbreaking poem, “The Waste Land,” you wouldn’t be able to trade it for a candy bar at the Quick Shop on your corner. Here’s a poem by David Lee Garrison [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 7:33pm EDT
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  • When “No” Means “Try Again”?

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    If You Are Too Stupid To Know When You Aren’t Wanted You Are Too Close To This Shirt [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
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  • An Anthropologist in Ghent

    The job of a cultural anthropologist is to understand people. I spend my time watching, listening, and analyzing everything from what people eat to their sexual habits to how they communicate with one another. But understanding what makes a culture into what it is requires more than detached, critical analysis; [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 7:04pm EDT
    by Shannon Avery

  • ALP: First Grade

    BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 It’s been sixty-odd years since I was in the elementary grades, but I clearly remember those first school days in early autumn, when summer was suddenly over and we were all perched in our little desks facing into the future. Here Ron Koertge of [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 11:58pm EDT
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  • Mailbag: Happenings this week

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    Greetings, Y’all Poets, Bards, n Troubadours. I can’t emphasize strongly enough that you gotta register NOW for Books in the Park. Open the ChesBayPoets.org web site, click on the Calendar link, and there (Sunday) click on the blue print for the link to the online registration page. It appears VB Open Page [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 10:46am EDT
    by Pete Freas

  • Mailbag: Muse readings and new classes

    The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk announces upcoming readings and a new class schedule for the fall. Email from The Muse: Muse News: August 17, 2009 Muse Readings in September The Muse will hold three readings in September: Sundays, September 13, 20, & 27, at the Boot in Ghent (123 W. 21st. St., Norfolk, 627-2668). They begin at [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 10:39am EDT
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  • Poetry as economic recovery

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    It seems that we’ve done just about everything to get the American auto industry out of the doldrums. We’ve forced bankruptcies. We’ve exchanged cash for clunkers. But have we tried poetry? – Op-Ed Contributor – Poetry in Motion – NYTimes.com Ford Edsel, by dstone7y During the 1950s, the Ford Motor Company asked [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 10:23am EDT
    by Deb Markham

  • Artists… get into the Spirit, submit to show

    Spirit is the name of the next art show at the Warehouse in Norfolk. The organizers say “Spirit” is about illuminating the intangible and viewing the invisible. They are accepting submissions until Sept. 29 and there is no entry fee. Here’s more about the them from the organizers: Spirit is a [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 8:48pm EDT
    by Deb Markham

  • …when nobody reads poetry?

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    In response to this in last Sunday’s Parade Magazine insert to the Virginian-Pilot (8-6-09): “Q: Why are my tax dollars going to pay a poet laureate when nobody reads poetry? A: ‘It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there,’ wrote the [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 2:17pm EDT
    by Pete

  • ALP: Green-Striped Melons

    BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Jane Hirshfield, a Californian and one of my favorite poets, writes beautiful image-centered poems of clarity and concision, which sometimes conclude with a sudden and surprising deepening. Here’s just one example. Watermelons, by S n o R k e l American Life in Poetry is made [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 3:54am EDT
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  • ALP: Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949

    BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 There have been many poems written in which a photograph is described in detail, and this one by Margaret Kaufman, of the Bay Area in California, uses the snapshot to carry her further, into the details of memory. 80’s Collage Project, by Sakurako Kitsa American [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 3:39am EDT
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  • ALP: Sustenance

    BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Elizabeth Bishop, one of our greatest American poets, once wrote a long poem in which the sudden appearance of a moose on a highway creates a community among a group of strangers on a bus. Here Ronald Wallace, a Wisconsin poet, gives us a [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 2:08am EDT
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  • Welcome our new editors and authors

    The Ghent Reader would like to introduce Michael Wingfield, Pete Freas and Lisa Flowers as editors for the site and Sionne Angbarad, Karl Watson and Grace Tazewell as authors. Our editors post, edit and delete Ghent Reader entries. They also review and post submissions from local writers and artists. Our [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 1:30am EDT
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  • ALP: “Cautionary Tales”

    BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 For over forty years, Mark Vinz, of Moorhead, Minnesota–poet, teacher, publisher–has been a prominent advocate for the literature of the Upper Great Plains. Here’s a recent poem that speaks to growing older. Cautionary Tales Beyond the field of grazing, gazing cows the great bull has a pasture [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 1:18am EDT
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  • Welcome our newest editor and author

    The Ghent Reader would like to introduce Michael Wingfield as our newest editor and Sionne Angbarad as an author for the site. Michael will add post, edit and delete Ghent Reader entries at his will. He will also review and post submissions from local authors. Given the Ghent Reader has [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 11:20am EDT
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  • Fishing for Renewal feedback

    If you're going to Renewal, please consider sharing your thoughts and photos on the show either on your blog or here on the Ghent Reader. ' [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 8:05am EDT
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  • Renewal in Ghent

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    How do you know it's spring in Ghent? The annual Renewal art show will open with a reception 7 p.m. this Friday, April 24, 2009 at The Warehouse in Ghent. ' [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2009, 2:40am EDT
    by Deb Markham

  • ALP: Society’s isolating technology

    BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Bill Holm, one of the most intelligent and engaging writers of our northern plains, died on February 25th. He will be greatly missed. He and I were of the same generation and we shared the same sense of wonder, amusement, and skepticism about the [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2009, 1:45am EDT
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  • Lisa Flowers kills love & moves time

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    Lisa Flowers is a freelance writer residing in the Ghent section of Norfolk, Virginia. Her book "diatomhero: 40 Religious Poems" is forthcoming. [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2009, 12:56am EDT
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  • Word Heard: Poetry around town

    Pete Freas shares his round up of local poetry readings and more. This week the People's Literary Fest and more. [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2009, 12:00am EDT
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  • Annie Douglas, Ghent’s queen storyteller

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    There's a storyteller in Ghent. Annie Douglas weaves narratives in the Tolkien tradition and hosts a regular "cruinnaiu," story-telling circle, in Ghent. ' [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2009, 11:48pm EDT
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  • ALP: Alice’s first strike

    "The Big Lebowski" caught bowling on film, and this poem by Regan Huff of Georgia captures it in words. [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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  • Mailbag: TCC Lit. Fest big this week

    The big word heard from Pete Freas this week is about the Tidewater Community College Literary Festival. He also has more poetry events to share: [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2009, 1:47pm EDT
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  • Mailbag: Poetry of forgiveness

    In this week’s mailbag, Pete Freas offers up his Line in Time for the end of March and the beginning of April. Here’s what he wrote: Greetings Y’all Poets, Pirates, Bards, n Troubadours. The CNU Writers Conference was spectacular. If you missed it, YOU MISSED IT. Don’t let it get away next year. Here [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 11:18pm EDT
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  • ALP: Patience is a good chair

    My father was the manager of a store in which chairs were strategically placed for those dutiful souls waiting and waiting [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 9:46pm EDT
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  • Unprinted: A poet kills his mother

    We’re reaching into our archives to get the ball rolling over here once again. We’re looking for poets and artists to submit their works as a Ghent Reader feature. Jeff was one of the first poets we met around here.  This piece is republished from May 1, 2006: Jeff Hewitt, [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 4:16pm EDT
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  • Richard Hoffman reading and booksigning

    Old Dominion University at Virginia Beach will host a special poetry reading and booksigning with Richard Hoffman at 12:30 pm in the lecture hall, room 244, for National Poetry Month this Thursday, April 2. A reservations-only pedagogy seminar will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in room 210. Call 368-4108 [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 4:17am EDT
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  • ALP: Going Deaf

    Here's a fine poem by Miller Williams of Arkansas that gets inside a person who is losing her hearing. ' [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 9:57am EDT
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  • Mailbag: Meditation, music, poetry

    The Ghent Reader receives a grand collection of notices from local literary and art activists. Check out our mailbag for the latest offerings around town. [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 9:34am EDT
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  • Join the Ghent Reader Local Links

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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 12:21am EDT
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  • OnFilm Fest asks filmmakers to ‘bring it’

    Not only will OnFilm Festival bring Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfus to Norfolk this week, it will host its first ever competition of indie filmmakers from around the globe. Dreyfuss will kick off festival by accepting the ONFilm Lifetime Achievement Award and discussing his life and achievements with Cathy Lewis [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 12:33am EDT
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  • Photos from Filipino American reading

    Tracie Liguid, a teacher at The Muse in Norfolk, hosted a Filipino American poetry reading last Sunday. Featured artists included Jon Pineda and Luisa Igloria along with spoken-word artists Xtina Tendilla, Alexander Cena and Marco Mercado. The afternoon of “Merienda,” which translates to “snacks,” made a rainy afternoon much tastier than [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2009, 6:43pm EDT
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  • ALP: Long Marriage

    By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 - To have a helpful companion as you travel through life is a marvelous gift. This poem by Gerald Fleming, a long-time teacher in the San Francisco public schools, celebrates just such a relationship. Click for larger view Long Marriage You’re worried, so you wake her & you [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2009, 4:38am EDT
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  • Zen poetry salon, John Ashbury & Chesapeake

    From Pete this week: A Zen Poetry Salon kicks off Tuesday, John Ashbury reads in Williamsburg Thursday & some big names close the Chesapeake Poetry Fest Friday. Line in Time Poetry Happenings from Pete Freas Greetings Y’all Poets, Bards, n Troubadours. Poetry is alive and well in Hampton Roads. But, I must say, some [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2009, 11:38pm EDT
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  • Poetry happenings from Pete Freas

    Pete Freas, our local poetry activist, shares his list of poetry happenings in Hampton Roads. His list starts with the Chesapeake Poetry Festival starting this Wednesday, March 18. From Pete Freas: It’s starting piled up with events. The Muse has prepared 2 new class offerings for April: Intro to Fiction Writing, [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2009, 6:59pm EDT
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  • Photos from Pigment

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    HamptonRoads.com took a lot of photos at the “Pigment of Your Imagination” art show and benefit for Edmarc on Saturday, Feb. 21 at Walls Fine Art Gallery inside Monticello Arcade in Norfolk. Check ‘em out. [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 9:32pm EDT
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  • Help us celebrate our friend

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    One of our long-time friends hasn’t been feeling too well. We’re not sure what to do, but we’re celebrating him with our banner this month. Jeff Maisey, editor of Port Folio Weekly, has a better idea. He writes “Just last week I booked a rustic cabin – Annie’s Cabin by name [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 9:25pm EDT
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  • Join our Ghent Reader Flickr photo pool

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    The Ghent Reader has made it easy for you to share your art, photos and video with us. Our only requirement is that you have a tie to our lovely Hampton Roads, Va. We also wouldn't mind if you had some talent too... but that's relative, isn't it? ' [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 9:02pm EDT
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  • Filipino American poetry at The Muse

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    Join The Muse’s Filipino American Memoir class for “Merienda” - an afternoon of Filipino American poetry by… Spoken word artists: Xtina Tendilla, Alexander Cena and Marco Mercado along with Jon Pineda http://www.jonpineda.com/ & Luisa Igloria http://www.luisaigloria.com/ Both Jon and Luisa have newly-published collections of work (respectively): “The Translator’s Daughter” and “Juan Luna’s Revolver” The reading will be held from [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 6:17pm EDT
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  • MC7C’s Pigment of Your Imagination art show

    Looking for something new and different in the Hampton Roads art scene? Try MC7C’s next art show Pigment of Your Imagination from 7 to 11 p.m. Feb. 21 at Wall Fine Art Gallery. The show will feature a circus, sideshow, Alice in Wonderland, storybook theme and will benefit Edmarc Hospice [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2009, 12:14am EST
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  • ALP: What My Father Left Behind

    The Ghent Reader re-prints American Life in Poetry columns by Ted Kooser, former U.S. Poet Laureate. This week Kooser features a poem about the loss of a parent written by Chris Forhan [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 3:19am EST
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  • Poetry: Growing Older

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    The Ghent Reader originally published this poem by Pete Freas during the summer of 2006. It's about just what the title says. ' [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 2:13am EST
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 1:37am EST
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 1:34am EST
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  • test - music

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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 1:32am EST
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