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- The Week In Letters - National Post
The Week In LettersNational Post, Canada - 5 hours agoA few correspondents even turned to poetry to make their statements. Here's a short excerpt from writer/ poet Dennis Hayes: "Beguiled and foolish, ...
- Are there any politically engaged poets out there? - OpEdNews.com
It is true that many poets were born out of necessity, from the trouble times they were living in. Poetry was then the only acceptable way to fight, because it could be less evident about what it really meant. It was often an indirect attack leaving ...
- Allen Ginsberg - Hartford Courant
April 29, 2008 Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago-
- When tolerance becomes negligence - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When tolerance becomes negligenceSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 4 hours agoRon Unterreiner lives in Chesterfield and enjoys writing, especially poetry. He is a member of Incarnate Word Church and vice president of business ...
- 'Slam' provides local storytellers a creative outlet - Daily Oklahoman
To learn more about StorySlam, contact Steven Kovash at 831-2874 or send an e-mail to okcstoryslam@yahoo.com . Friday afternoon, I learned about a form of comic relief that likely will appeal to office workers. It's an offshoot of the Arts Council of ...
- Lou Reed in Concert (NPR)
NPR.org , May 6, 2008 - If we asked all the musicians featured on All Songs Considered to name their biggest influence, I bet the most popular answer would be Lou Reed. His songwriting in the Velvet Underground, and 40 years of songwriting since, is filled with street-life poetry and train-throbbing rhythms absent from rock and roll in the mid 1960s.
- New play explores what search reveals about us (Local Tech Wire)
PHILADELPHIA — They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person?
- Quake's Artistic Aftershocks: Chengdu Poetry - NPR News
All Things Considered , May 19, 2008 · Chengdu, China, is known as a city of writers — with an especially strong community of poets. Last week's earthquake has already started filtering into local writers' works. Here are two poems by Chengdu ...
- Literary Happenings: Some pen the lines, others stand in them (Ventura County Star)
In May I attended BookExpo America at the Los Angeles Convention Center. More than 2,000 exhibitors competed for visitors' attention with autographing sessions, in-booth activities and giveaways. Author events provided the most fun.
- Nightlife, July 11-17 - Canton Repository (subscription)
Nightlife, July 11-17Canton Repository (subscription), OH - 19 minutes agoMuggswigz: Leah Ashton and Brandon James, 8-10 pm Saturday; poetry/comedy/spoken word open mic night, 8-11 pm Monday; open mic, 7:30 pm Tuesday; ...
- Event: 16 personalities receive Poet Abu Jafar Obaidullah Awards - The New Nation
Event: 16 personalities receive Poet Abu Jafar Obaidullah AwardsThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 6 hours agoHis love to this country's people and soil always inspire everybody. He was not only renowned in poetry, but also in social welfare, agriculture and human ...
- Forging Cultural Ties ‘Need of the Hour’ - Arab News
Arab NewsForging Cultural Ties ‘Need of the Hour’Arab News, Saudi Arabia - 2 hours agoAnwar Moazzam, Islamic scholar, academician, writer and director of Urdu Documentation Center in Hyderabad, called for a people-to people dialogue to forge ...
- SFU's Blaser wins $50000 poetry prize - Canada.com
SFU's Blaser wins $50000 poetry prizeCanada.com, Canada - Jun 5, 2008The two other finalists on the Canadian shortlist were David W. McFadden for Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden; and Erin Moure and ...
- Sun City authors to hold book signing (Island Packet)
Thirty members of the Sunscribers club of Sun City Hilton Head have written and published a book of fiction, essays and poetry titled, "Everything Under the Sun." They will host a book signing and question-and-answer session from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Bluffton Branch of the Beaufort County Library. Copies cost $15, and proceeds will go to local charities.
- There is still an element of curiosity about what the African can ... - Vanguard
There is still an element of curiosity about what the African can ...Vanguard, Nigeria - 4 hours agoThat has been my attitude to prose, poetry, drama, fiction and so on. Let me take my first novel, A Consummation of Fire. I wanted to make a statement about ...
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