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- Jamie Cohen's Final Wrap - Santa Fe Reporter
A 1976 graduate of the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, Jamie worked in the A&R departments of labels such as A&M, Dark Horse, Arista, Slash, EMI and Private Music. Just a few of the artists he worked with included George ...
- Pulitzer-prize winning poet Hayden Carruth dies at 87 - Brattleboro Reformer
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y. - Hayden Carruth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world, has died. He was 87. Carruth, who lived in Vermont in the 1960s and 1970s, died Monday at his home in Munnsville, about 30 ...
- Sentences to Nowhere - Slate
Kitty Burns Florey's attempt to diagram Sarah Palin's sentences was a hit this week. Even before Tina Fey's dead-on impersonations brought attention to the VP candidate's tortured linguistic style, language itself was already a campaign theme ...
- Too Much of a Good Thing - Minneapolis City Pages
Too Much of a Good ThingMinneapolis City Pages, MN - Aug 12, 2008By James Norton Isaiah Berlin cataloged a pantheon of writers and thinkers using this bit of old poetry, but it's also a fine starting point for thinking ...
- Mujeres Writing Conference Saturday (Arizona Daily Star)
"Passing the Torch: Narrating Our Cultural Legacies" is the theme of this year's Mujeres Writing Conference presented by Sowing the Seeds.
- Photos worth a thousand words (London Free Press)
The power and beauty of the photograph have new meaning for me after a visit to Museum London last week. I would have expected Sketches in Black and White, a selection of photographic portraits from the museum's permanent collection to impress, even move deeply.
- Baxter Black thrills crowd - Elko Daily Free Press
ELKO - With the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering still months away, locals were treated to a special performance by Baxter Black Friday as part of activities leading up to the Gathering's silver anniversary. The Elko Convention Center was near ...
- Classic Poetry for Modern Life - The Epoch Times
Classic Poetry for Modern LifeThe Epoch Times, NY - 27 minutes agoAs the second stanza describes, we must free ourselves from the inner “passions†that would, if unleashed, turn our freedom into chaos. ...
- Island woman a portrait in courage - Staten Island Advance
The poem is simple inspiration, typed in capital letters with one finger on one hand by a former executive secretary who once did 70 words a minute. Although each stroke Joan DiFiore makes on the keyboard these days can be laced with pain from ...
- 'We need to take the Bible back from the bigots' - The Independent
It's not every day that journalists are presented with a "style guide" to interpret the most enduring international bestseller on the planet. But the Bible is no ordinary book, and these are not conventional times, as religion hits the headlines like ...
- Richard Brody: The cinematic styling of Max Ophuls. (The New Yorker)
His elaborate travelling shots suffice to make Max Ophüls one of the cinema’s great stylists, but, as seen in “Le Plaisir,†from 1952 (released by Criterion along with “The Earrings of Madame de . . .†and “La Rondeâ€Â), what makes him a great director is his fusion of style and substance. Ophüls . . .
- Verve Articles (Colorado State Collegian)
Confined to a nursing home in old age, Jacob Jankowski in "Water for Elephants" is drawn back to his younger days when a traveling circus stops in his town.
- Highbrow lo-fi (Guardian Unlimited)
Culture: Meet the American bands giving rock an intelligent makeover
- Wainwright woos Cambridge crowd - BBC News
BBC NewsWainwright woos Cambridge crowdBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoWainwright's latest album has won her new fans, and many of her lyrics stand up as poetry in their own right. Bleeding All Over You includes the lines: ...
- Satchel’s Grill in Downtown Boise will close on Aug. 23 - IdahoStatesman.com
Satchel’s Grill in Downtown Boise will close on Aug. 23IdahoStatesman.com, ID - 17 hours agoIt also is a center for poetry readings, literary gatherings, benefits for The Cabin, art shows and Irish dancing. Emerson, who has spent many summer nights ...
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