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- In Person: 30 Poets, Edited by Neil Astley, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce (Independent)
Bloodaxe Books was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne 30 years ago by Neil Astley. Since then, it has published nearly 1,000 poetry books, quantities probably matched only by Michael Schmidt's Manchester-based Carcanet Press. Bloodaxe has reined in a more left-ward, experimental and internationalist stable, as distinct from Carcanet's conservative bent. Both publishers have recently become more ...
- Flor y Canto: Celebrating Latino Poetry in San Francisco - New California Media
Flor y Canto: Celebrating Latino Poetry in San FranciscoNew California Media, CA - 51 minutes agoEditor's Note: Poetry is alive and well in San Francisco, home of the beat generation, and Latino poetry is thriving in its Mission District, ...
- Museum's exhibit reflects Vermont's art and culture (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)
hen Glenn Suokko began his artist talk last weekend at the "Pastoral" exhibit at the Kent Tavern Museum, there was a cup-shaped bird's nest resting on a mantel just behind his left shoulder. Anecdotally, he mentioned that the week before, he'd been in the next room listening to a poetry reading by Carol Westberg when he noticed a robin sitting on her nest. He watched, through the wavy glass of ...
- Angus Calder - Telegraph.co.uk
Angus CalderTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoIn 1984 he helped to set up the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh and served as its first convener. As questions of Scottish national identity assumed ...
- A feast of culture! - Stockport Express
A feast of culture!Stockport Express, UK - 3 hours agoOn Saturday a combination of dance, literature, poetry, comedy, visual arts, community performances and street theatre exploded on to the streets. ...
- Letters for the week of June 11 (East Bay Express)
Readers criticize Cal and John Yoo but defend Joe Pachinko and ICE.
- Outdoorsman Ed Rogers lives life on the ‘fly’ - Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Filled with bright daylight, Ed Rogers’s den reflects his love for both the outdoors and literature: book-laden shelves line the walls, topped off with salmon and trout fly displays, duck decoys and photos of wild streams, landscapes, a mounted 7.5 ...
- Change v. Experience – or Both? - 411mania.com
Change v. Experience – or Both?411mania.com, TX - 13 hours agoHowever, as President Clinton wisely observed, "we campaign in poetry, but we govern in prose." Where the rhetoric meets the road is where we learn what a ...
- Black Dog Music Fest set for July 27 - Democrat and Chronicle
More than 20 acts will perform at the Black Dog Music Fest on July 27 to celebrate the life of the late Dennis Monroe. The show will feature local folk, alt-country, rock and poetry groups, including the Dady Brothers, Hunu?, Watkins & the Rapiers ...
- 'In Bruges' - Newsday
There is a playful deception going on in the prosaic title of "In Bruges," evocative as it is of chamber recitals and poetry readings in medieval coffeehouses. One is tempted to add a modifying phrase before the "In," for the sake of truth in ...
- Innkeeper's daughter pioneered city's tourist season (The Desert Sun)
“She started what was to become the whole vast, vogue of desert vacationing. All the great resorts — Tucson, and Phoenix and Death Valley — the fancy hotels and the Southwest dude ranches, and the thousands of trailers who have discovered the uncanny lure of the desert, it all began with Mother Coffman. The whole thing was built on one woman's spiritual love of the desert.â€
- A pure thrush word (Guardian Unlimited)
The shell blast that stopped Edward Thomas's heart on the battlefield at Arras stopped his pocket watch, too, at 24 minutes to eight on the morning of Easter Monday, 1917. That frozen timepiece is an appropriate image for a poet whose best work seems to still time, to suspend a moment of clear-sighted observation.
- World writers decry censorship at Swedish literary meet (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bangladeshi novelist-in-hiding Taslima Nasreen joined international writers gathered at a literary conference in Stockholm Tuesday to deplore how censorship and persecution affect their work.
- Seven days ahead - Vancouver Courier
Seven days aheadVancouver Courier, Canada - 7 hours ago... album, Mr. Love & Justice. But we're hoping to hear "Greetings to the New Brunette" from his classic 1986 album Talking With the Taxman About Poetry. ...
- Tim Russert set a Christian example - La Crosse Tribune
The recent passing of news icon Tim Russert at age 58 is a reminder that each day is a gift and that any day might be our last in this life. A few months ago, I attended the funeral of a former business partner and friend who died at 46. These men ...
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