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- Bates alumna among authors to read for Language Arts Live - Bates Magazine
Bates MagazineBates alumna among authors to read for Language Arts LiveBates Magazine"God Says No" follows gay African-American protagonist Gary Gray in his return to his home state of Florida as he struggles to define his own identity. ...
- Erotic Poetry for the late Valentine - The Union of Grass Valley
Erotic Poetry for the late ValentineThe Union of Grass ValleyTonight the Nevada County Poetry Series celebrates the fine art of love. It will be a night of erotic encounters, mistakes and misadventures – a night for ...
- Review: 'Some Will Play the Cello: Poems' - San Antonio Express
Review: 'Some Will Play the Cello: Poems'San Antonio Express... a seamless connection between environmental nature and human nature, between rural and urban settings, and a unique blending of prose with poetry. ...
- ONCE AND FOR ALL... Closes at the Duke on 1/17 - Broadway World
The result is an affecting collage of text and physical theater set to a soundtrack of "defiance" rock, punk and classical music that underscores the theme of teen rebellion. "I react against the meekness, the poetry, the melancholy that is connected ...
- Margaret Wade-Lewis dies; helped found Black Studies Department at SUNY New Paltz - Kingston Daily Freeman
Margaret Wade-Lewis dies; helped found Black Studies Department at SUNY New PaltzKingston Daily FreemanCourses she taught at New Paltz included Black English, Contemporary Black Literature, Black Poetry and Drama, and Africana Culture. ...and more »
- Love Takes a Holiday - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
After living together in Europe the last four years, I broke up with my girlfriend over Christmas, and I'm moving back to New York around Valentine's Day. I think that it would be unkind to fly the day before, the day of, or the day after Valentine's ...
- Events to help Haitian earthquake victims - Washington Post (blog)
Events to help Haitian earthquake victimsWashington Post (blog)... and palak chaat and black cod at Rasika. Every Wednesday from Jan. 20 through Feb. 10, musicians, DJs, poets and visual artists will perform at the ...and more »
- Tribute to a man who lived for football - NEXT
He died a sad and very painful death at a time when his life promised so much. Jude Ezechukwu was in life the proprietor of Jasper United Football Club. He loved the beautiful game so much that he could stop his car on the road just to watch street ...
- 'Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems' by James Schuyler - Los Angeles Times
'Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems' by James SchuylerLos Angeles TimesJames Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of verse: Almost unknown outside the poetry world, he was massively influential within it. ...
- National pastime plays itself out on sheets of paper - Winnipeg Free Press
National pastime plays itself out on sheets of paperWinnipeg Free PressReading about hockey -- our fiction, drama, and poetry about hockey -- reveals a less purely celebratory and more complex set of ideas about the sport. ...
- Neocons, school boundaries and the good old days - Austin American-Statesman
Re: Feb. 7 article "GOP, Obama battle over plans to create jobs." I am sorry that U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Dallas, is a Texan and glad that he does not represent me. While other Republicans and Democrats work together on a bipartisan jobs bill ...
- Stranger by Laura Sims - Bookslut
Stranger by Laura SimsBookslutSims also incorporates prose in a micro-doses alongside poetic verse. She writes: “All this,†she says spreading her arms to the ocean. ...
- Gwendolyn Brooks and Her Worth to the Literary Canon - Associated Content
Gwendolyn Brooks (born in Kansas, 1917) is one of the most famous African American poets. She was the first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize and was best known for her amazing portrayal of urban black people, who face poverty and ...
- Yank! extends run by two weeks - New York Theatre Guide
New York Theatre GuideYank! extends run by two weeksNew York Theatre Guide... Jeffry Denman (White Christmas, The Producers), Ivan Hernandez (Romantic Poetry, The Fantastics) and Bobby Steggert (Ragtime, 110 in the Shade). ...
- Poet notches second at state - Mille Lacs County Times
Poet notches second at stateMille Lacs County Times“Students who participate benefit in a number of ways; they learn to love great poetry, they develop public speaking skills, they satisfy English/language ...and more »
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