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Florida Studio Theatre (FST) and BookStore1Sarasota present PoetryLife for its 7th consecutive year on Monday, February 19, a one-of-a-kind celebration of poetry and the power of creativity.

Today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced key authors, celebrities and notable figures in the entertainment, sports, news and literary worlds who will lend their voices and passion to THE GREAT AMERICAN READ

ASHES TO ASHES centers on liberal Sara (Lena Bouton) and right-winger Jefferson (Kevin Young), ex-spouses who are polar opposites about everything except their love and devotion for their two, newly deceased, filthy-rich best friends. Trapped by the time-constraints of their friends' will, the two are forced to spend the next 16 days, 21 hours and 32 minutes together, scattering their friends' ashes across Europe under the direction of pre-arranged tour guides who meet the duo as they arrive at each of their destinations. The places visited where ashes are to be left trace a journey of the heart from their friends' lives, and the feuding duo soon realize the steps in a relationship that test true love may soon re-ignite the passion between them.

The Athena Cats, a collective of Southern California female playwrights and directors, presents the world premiere of a madcap romantic comedy that's a perfect escape for the holidays. Ashes to Ashes, written by Debbie Bolsky and directed by Katherine James, opens as a visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre on Dec. 9, where it continues through Jan. 14, 2018.

Today, the Chicago Humanities Festival revealed its full line-up for the Fallfest/17: Belief. New additions to the line-up including Tony-award winning playwright Tony Kushner, Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson, French philosopher and social critic Bernard-Henri Levy, filmmaker Joe Swanberg, Obama Presidential Center architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and Publican chef Paul Kahan.

Irish Arts Center (IAC), the arts and cultural center dedicated to projecting a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America for the 21st century, has announced its fall 2017 season. The lineup epitomizes IAC's commitment to building community with a diversity of arts institutions, artists and audiences - in New York, across America, and abroad.

John, her husband, is continually ignored. Delores, his wife, tells all she meets that she's dying. The soon-to-be-gone and the invisible, Carol Triffle's motifs are lightly cloaked in this existential comedy of bad manners at a high school reunion.

Last night, February 16, 2017, at a special preview event for the new documentary 'American Masters -- Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise' at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), Dr. Maya Angelou's grandson Colin Johnson, Co-Founder and Principal of Caged Bird Legacy, LLC, presented Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Bill Clinton with a plaque of Dr. Maya Angelou's inauguration poem, 'On The Pulse of Morning,' that flew on the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) December 5, 2014. Scroll down for photos!

Palm Beach County will live up to its well earned title as 'Florida's Cultural Capital' early next year when three major cultural festivals open one after the other, three days in a row.

This fall, The New York Public Library and the Academy of American Poets present a free series of four conversations exploring how different art forms engage with poetry. These conversations will pair some of today's most intriguing poets with accomplished artists, dancers, chefs, and actors.

This fall, The New York Public Library and the Academy of American Poets will present a free series of four conversations exploring how different art forms engage with poetry. These conversations will pair some of today's most intriguing poets with accomplished artists, dancers, chefs, and actors.

(Delray Beach, FL - August 6, 2015)  Susan R. Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival (PBPF), today announced that the 12th annual festival is returning to the Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square for six days, January 18-23, 2016. Special Guest Poet at the next Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be Robert Hass, former United States Poet Laureate (1995-1997) and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner.

Martin Farawell, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's Poetry Director and Director of the Dodge Poetry Festival, has announced the complete roster of poets who will be participating in the 15th biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. In partnership with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and the City of Newark, the Festival will be held at NJPAC and at various venues in downtown Newark, NJ for four day starting October 23, 2014.

FST has officially opened 2014's PoetryLife Weekend for sale with tickets available for the events today and tomorrow, May 2 and 3.

FST has officially opened 2014's PoetryLife Weekend for sale with tickets available for the events on May 2 and 3. All proceeds go to benefit The PoetryLife Fund, a support for educators teaching poetry in the community. Tickets for all events can be purchased through the Florida Studio Theatre box office at 941-366-9000, online at FloridaStudioTheatre.org, or in person at 1241 N. Palm Avenue.

For the better part of a week in mid-March, authors both acclaimed and emerging published stories on Twitter in the second annual Twitter Fiction Festival. Earlier this year, novelist Teju Cole drew special notice for employing his Twitter feed to publish a short story called 'Hafiz,' then again with his essay on immigration reform, 'A Piece of the Wall.' Buzzfeed Books ran the first scoop and thenthe second, and suddenly the story had become about so much more than literary experimentation.

'It's cold here,' John Berryman wrote in one of hisDream Songs. 'The cold is ultimating. The cold is cold.' As our winter of frigid discontent winds down, I'm pulling spring toward me like a quilt by starting Poetry Month early.

Florida Studio Theatre has announced the beginning of the 2014 Favorite Poem Project in partnership with BookStore1Sarasota. FST will host the 2014 Favorite Poem Reading with special guests, Mark Doty, winner of the National Book Award, and Kevin Young, award-winning poet on May 3, 2014 at 3pm in the Keating Theatre. Submission forms are available at the FST box office or at BookStore1Sarasota. All submissions are due in to BookStore1Sarasota no later than April 7.

From the imagination of John Adrian Tomlin comes the gripping sequel of 'The Imaginarium Machine,' a tale of dystopian science fiction set in 'The Imaginarium World.' This gripping story takes place in a grim future wherein humanity has been enslaved by a technological despot, and follows a band of freedom fighters as they fight to liberate the Earth from the tyrant's rule.