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Congratulations to our MIT Creative Writing lecturers on the Nielsen Fiction Bestsellers list! Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries, and The Rehearsal) Anne Kennedy (The Last Days of he National Costume) and...
View ArticleTuesday Poem: Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless patient spider”
A noiseless patient spider, I marked where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Marked how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launched forth filament, filament, filament out of itself,...
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Post by Geraldine Warren: Pimping Otara Poet Trees
Hone Tuwhare visited Tangaroa College Otara, when I was a pupil in fifth form (year 11), he conversed with purpose and ease to the teenage audience. Tuwhare was the first poet I saw performing his work...
View ArticleCONGRATULATIONS TO ELEANOR!
Fantastic news for Eleanor Catton’s Man Booker Prize. We’re all thrilled for her at MIT. Nga mihi arohanui.
View ArticlePost by Rachel Nessia
The first class of fourth term went exceedingly well. This is one of those times where the door has opened and you can see down the corridor; only you choose to linger within the frame just to get a...
View ArticleNZ Poetry Slam Auckland Heat
Dear Poets The last Auckland Heat of the NZ Poetry Slam will be held here at the Faculty of Creative Arts on Wednesday evening, 23rd October, from 7pm. 50 Lovegrove Crescent, Otara. Good luck!
View ArticlePost by Jillian Leach
Man Booker Prize 2013 The morning of the announcement of the Man Booker Prize saw students and lecturers in the Creative Arts Faculty at Manukau Institute of Technology gather in the main teaching room...
View ArticleNew post by Amber Esau: Just Poetry
When I first started getting into writing poetry, I tried to emulate my favourite poets: Charles Bukowski, Maya Angelou and Jim Morrison. (I don’t care what you say, Jim’s a poet!) Our most basic and...
View ArticleTuesday Poem: “Afastina” by Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor
Afastina for Selina & Tusiata Hey Afakasi can your palangi hands do the brown siva? can you Sāmoa siva a show and tell? Island Monarchs rebirth a longing for butterfly belongings I used to hide...
View ArticleOn Poetry Slams: post by Michelle Durey
Slam. When you see that word written, I bet the last thing you probably think about is poetry…But, put the two words together and you’ve got a curious can of opened worms. Poetry Slam! So, what is a...
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