http://blog.houseofparlance.com graphic fiction - poetry - mobile digital - publishing sometimes all at once Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:03:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here at House of Parlance we get a heck of a lot of poetry submitted for our consideration via email. We received at lot of emails from one particular person and I thought I would share a few excerpts of their work with you all. This first piece instills that sense ... http://blog.houseofparlance.com/2007/12/05/poetry-that-is-emailed-to-us/     Our wonderful poet Shane Koyczan just performed last weekend at Portland's biggest literary weekend, Wordstock. One of the weekend's reviews called Shane "likely the best white, Canadian slam poet you’ll ever see". As part of the event Shane was invited to perform for Livewire a program on Oregon Public Radio. ... http://blog.houseofparlance.com/2007/11/15/shane-on-oregon-public-radio-this-weekend/ From the VECC program -"You only have to hear Shane Koyczan read once to be hooked - humane, furious, sexy, political, tragic and so funny that you'll laugh through your tears. With musical accompaniment from the Short Story Long, Shane moves from subdued, deep, sad love poetry to power chord ... http://blog.houseofparlance.com/2007/10/21/shane-koyczan-two-feature-performances-at-the-vancouver-east-cultural-centre-october-2007/    "Zondervan will introduce twelve graphic novels to launch six series of manga for three different age groups, including both biblically-based stories and contemporary fiction content." from Zondervan.com They have Bible manga, Christian Ninjas, Cyborgs and more. It is interesting to see manga being used in this way. It ... http://blog.houseofparlance.com/2007/10/18/the-manga-bible-no-not-the-bible-of-manga-the-bible-in-manga/ Or "Calvin on Charlie" if you will. Or "Hobbes on Snoopy". It's been a very long time since we heard anything from Bill Watterson. He has done a wonderful job of falling off the map. He has resurfaced to write of review of a biography about Charles Schulz. Bill has always ... http://blog.houseofparlance.com/2007/10/15/watterson-on-schultz/