An Evening of Poetry with Bill Shute & Michael Aaron Casares

Posted by virgograypress on January 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Ruta Maya open mic hosts featured poets, Bill Shute and Michael Aaron Casares for a night of verse and open mic. Bill Shute, a poet and publisher from San Antonio, returns for his third annual Austin reading w/ Michael, this time featuring his collection “Junk Sculpture From The New Gilded Age”. Austin poet Michael Aaron … Read more

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The Hideout Closes the Monday Night Open Mic after 10 Years of Poetry & Spoken Word

Posted by virgograypress on August 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

After a decade of poetry and free speech, the weekly Monday night Open Mic at The Hideout is closing its doors to spoken word enthusiasts. Thom Woodruff, host at the Hideout open mic for the better part of six years, is reluctant to see the venue closed, but is confident about the state of poetry … Read more

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Austin This Week: AIPF

Posted by virgograypress on April 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

This week the Austin International Poetry Festival will take place April 7-10, 2011. This is a great way to kick off National Poetry Month and we here at Virgogray Press are happy to be there. For the previous 18 years the Austin International Poetry Festival has drawn 100’s of poets and poetry enthusiasts to share … Read more

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Virgogray Press & the Austin International Poetry Festival: The Whole Story

Posted by virgograypress on April 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Alright so the Austin International Poetry Festival is looming largely over us next week. Yes, it is finally here. So here’s the skinny on Virgogray’s role in the Festival and how we’re supporting. Viva la poesia! Friday April 24th, 2009 MARC OLMSTED will be taking place in a public reading on Friday evening. Where: Westminster Manor                                                                                                                                                                      … Read more

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Marc Olmsted @ Huston-Tillotson University

Posted by virgograypress on April 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

 We are happy to announce that Marc Olmsted will be hosting a poetry workshop entitled “Word Flashes & Eye Snapshots: Sketching Your Life Awake” as part of The Austin International Poetry Festival. “Sketching” was Jack Kerouac’s term for recording images seen  and the associations and memories they invoke with a snapshot-like technique of minute particulars … Read more

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      Death -A New BeginningO! Death don’t scare your children,One may doubt the existence of god,But can’t doubt your reality,Omnipresent death is always with me,But I don’t fear the mightiest of all.There is a mysterious door,But where are the keys, nobody knows;Looking impatiently and praying to God,Life keeps on moving and without stop,Age keeps on running and […]
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      Elected to the Needlesa room.scene 2.bare.light bulb.the females rest boneless in the boudoir.sound of nails scraping the labeloff of a methadone bottlewhite soiled plasticpale stained digitsfluid orange somewhat palebare.style of forgetting wanting to get thereunblinkingblack felineno opinionsurveyingfood swallowed without incidentvomited back upwithout pai […]

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      Public Health Proposal What if it was in the water? Hope, I mean--added like fluoridefor our health! It would be pouredinto baby bottles,mixed with formula,so that at an early ageit would become a part of us,stored in our cellsfor later. In schools,it would flowfrom the water fountains--leading teachers to trust studentsto never give up! We would bathe in it […]
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