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  Free! A festival of new world music: 4 days, 90 musicians, 13 countries. Yes, it's all free! The Landfall Festival of World Music in Cedar Rapids, Sept. 22-25, hosted by Legion Arts, in various locations in and around Greene Park. Rain or shine, the show will go on, so let's all hope for shine. 

 

Here's the roster of concerts:
Weds 9.22
6-7:15 pm  Barbara Furtuna (France) *
7:15-8:45 pm 

 

I had the great honor of interviewing one of my all-time favorite poets, Naomi Shihab Nye .  This interview will air Sunday, October 3 at 10:30 am and Monday, October 4 at 1:30 pm on Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost, KRUU-LP 100.1 FM, http://kruufm.com.

 

Naomi Shihab Nye was born on March 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she

 

 

Blowing my own horn again.  Three poems of mine are featured in Poets and Artists magazine.  Go to http://www.poetsandartists.com for a view of the magazine.  I'm in the October 2010 issue pictured above.

Forthcoming: Steven Schneider's review of my book, The Wine-Dark House, will appear in Pirene's Fountain in October 2010.  Check that out, and a new poem of mine, in October at

I've just been on the phone with my wife discussing the movie Eat Pray Love or, as the local cinema in Ottumwa where she saw it billed it, Eat Prey Love, which I assume is the arachnid version.

I haven't seen the movie yet but I read the bestselling book by Elizabeth Gilbert on which it is based. It describes the adventures of a young writer (herself) who, on the rebound from a bad relationship

 

 

 

Rustin Larson’s The Wine-Dark House and the Poet’s Journey

Review by Steven P. Schneider


Rustin Larson has been quietly writing his poems in Southeastern Iowa for over twenty years now. Gradually, he accumulated a body of work that has attracted the attention of other poets, critics, and that increasingly rare specimen, readers. For his efforts Larson has won prizes for his poetry, has been