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- Not Another Winter: An Interview With Mark Eitzel - PopMatters
PopMattersNot Another Winter: An Interview With Mark EitzelPopMatters, IL - 22 minutes agoThroughout the show, Eitzel was funny and self-deprecating, with onstage banter regarding the alleged sexual dalliances between bandmates and Celine Dion. ...
- Say You’re One of Them - Financial Times
Say You’re One of Them By Uwem Akpan Abacus £11.99, 304 pages FT Bookshop , price: £9.59 Selling your child or nephew could be more difficult than selling other kids,†is the chilling opening line of Uwem Akpan’s short story “ Fattening for ...
- Scholarship winners named - Eufaula Tribune
Scholarship winners namedEufaula Tribune, AL - 12 minutes ago... Miss Barbour County Agriculture, poetry winner for Alabama Writers Forum Literary Arts Award, a National Honor Society inductee and honors in geometry, ...
- A Terrible Beauty: The Poetry of War - BU Today
BU TodayA Terrible Beauty: The Poetry of WarBU Today, MA - 2 hours agoLet me quote just one stanza, from a poem written by Robert Graves to his friend and fellow officer Siegfried Sassoon: By friendship blossoming from mud, ...
- Things to do this long weekend (Toronto Star)
Looking for something to do this long weekend? Here are some entertainment events going on around the city: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club has world music with an Indian flavour from Tasa, Sat. 8 p.m. ($15 at 416-264-2235). St. Nicholas Anglican, 1512 Kingston Rd.
- Tasmanian poet wins NSW prize - Australian Broadcasting Corp.
A Hobart writer, Kathryn Lomer, has won the $30,000 Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry. Lomer's second collection of poetry, Two Kinds Of Silence, was recognised as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Lomer says she did not expect to ...
- Open Mic: Poetry in Podcasts - San Francisco Gate
April was National Poetry Month . But we had so many responses for poets to read their work on Open Mic that we're offering one more poetry podcast even though it's Memorial Day . So here are two more new poems and a re-reading of a previously posted ...
- 'There's no other option' - Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Citizen'There's no other option'Ottawa Citizen, Canada - 1 hour agoI love to turn that one up very loud and dance around. Leonard Cohen's The Night Comes On is one I love to play to get inside the poetry. ...
- Predator's history began in Houston - Houston Chronicle
When U.S. federal agents and Mexican cyberpolice recently captured an American pedophile on the FBI's most-wanted list, they snared a predator whose criminal deviance quietly began 19 years earlier in Houston. Jon Savarino Schillaci's victims here ...
- Fort Lauderdale conference offers real-world advice to poets - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
FORT LAUDERDALE - Successful spoken-word poets mine their souls for inspiration. But to make a living, they must also troll for grant money, business contacts and performance opportunities. That was one of many lessons offered at a gathering of about ...
- Damon Albarn and His Adventurous Honest Jon's Label (The Village Voice)
The most mysterious song I've heard all year is by a Londoner named Ben Simmons. Appropriately, the track shows up on iTunes as "[Blank]," as if technology itself couldn't figure out just how to classify this inscrutable sound: He starts off seemingly emulating Dada sound poetry, huffing and puff...
- Clerihew contest! - Boston Globe
Clerihew contest!Boston Globe, United States - 2 hours agoThe winner will receive Scribner's "Best American Poetry 2007" anthology (2008 isn't over yet, so that anthology hasn't come out), and no end of glory and ...
- Palestinian ´resistance poetry´ class causes academic uproar at U.C. Berkeley (JTA)
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- Slam turns poetry into performance (Owen Sound Sun Times)
Edgy, energetic, gutsy and invigorating were some of the words used to describe the poetry slam competition held in Durham on the weekend. “I’m getting goosebumps listening to it,†Dianne Ramsay, a poet from Owen Sound, said during a break in the competition Saturday. “I had no idea [...]
- Rare performance from Persia with love - Vancouver Courier
Rare performance from Persia with loveVancouver Courier, Canada - 3 hours ago"They have to have everything at the same time: good voice, good range, knowing about Iranian poetry, knowing about Iranian music, and all at the highest ...
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