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- CNN - Poet Gives Voice To Black America (WNEM TV 5 Mid-Michigan)
Born Of The Smoke-Infused Speakeasies Of 1950s And '60s Underground San Francisco, California, The Art Of Spoken Word Was Popularized By Beatnik Novelists Such As Jack Kerouac. Today, Hip Hop Has Inspired New Spoken Word Poet Jon Goode And Others To Give Voice To Serious Topics Ranging From AIDS And Prostitution To Gas Prices And Love.Ă‚Â Ă‚Â
- What's cheap in the city: your guide to living on less - Edinburgh News
There's no doubt times are hard – and the warnings say they are going to get even harder. There might not be much any of us can do about rising fuel prices, utility bills and soaring supermarket prices, but don't be too depressed. For Edinburgh is ...
- Five Attractive, Mysterious Books - TheStranger.com
TheStranger.comFive Attractive, Mysterious BooksTheStranger.com, WA - 20 minutes agoIt publishes mostly nonfiction, as prose and poetry and comic books. The only one of the fall list that gravitates toward fiction is Welcome to the Dahl ...
- Birthday milestone for eclectic cabaret - Eastern Daily Press
The Broken Piano Show cabaret night celebrates its first birthday at Norwich Arts Centre on Wednesday with another eclectic night of local music, comedy and poetry, from 8pm. The quarterly show has become a springboard for local live talent ...
- Willow Macky - SOUNZ
Willow Macky is one of New Zealand’s great, but largely unheralded composer of New Zealand songs. It would be unusual to have attended an end of year school assembly in New Zealand in the last 40 years and not have sung her work “Te Harinui – A ...
- Cutest Pet shares the loot with friends! - Idaho Press-Tribune
Dearest Readers: For all the important things in your life ... if it’s important to you, it’s important to us. I recently heard from the Humble family, whose pet Griffey is, and was told that he did indeed enjoy shopping at Petco (see photo) with ...
- New indie publishers speak out optimistically in the face of decline - Los Angeles Times Blogs
From some quarters, it looks like publishing is in big trouble . But that's not enough to slow down editors with vision and inspiration. At the Emerging Writers Network , Dan Wickett interviews seven new independent publishers: Ellipsis Press , Hotel ...
- "A Love Song for New Orleans" is poetry set to music - Louisiana Weekly
When people think of a poet, they might imagine a solitary figure with pen in hand bent over a tablet at a coffee shop or in a corner of a quiet room. These days, it's also easy to picture a man or woman of verse contemplating their next stanza in ...
- Queering the Movimiento (San Antonio Current)
When bleached-blond Danny De La Paz rollerbladed onto a minimalist stage at Our Lady of the Lake University on August 13, 2005, wearing a glass tiara, a muscle T-shirt, and tight, bulging shorts while Brian Adams’ campy anthem “Heaven” played in the background, you knew this wasn’t gonna be just another Chicano gangbanger story.
- No Escape: Marketing to Kids in the Digital Age - Multinational Monitor
No Escape: Marketing to Kids in the Digital AgeMultinational Monitor - Jul 26, 2008Habbo Hotel — “a teen community where you can meet people, play games and create your own online space” — aggressively promotes itself as a marketing venue, ...
- Ruth Padel's top 10 women poets - guardian.co.uk
Ruth Padel's top 10 women poetsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoEveryone today knows and loves The World's Wife and the recent love poems in Rapture, but she made her name by much more political work (and a different ...
- Norris writes 'Acedia,' finds God's joy again - USA Today
"There is a grief that is useful, and there is a grief that comes from the enemy, full of mockery, which some call accidie (acedia). This spirit must be cast out, mainly in prayer." Thomas of Chabham (13th-century English theologian) "... On account ...
- Talking with Kapil Sibal (Hindustan Times)
The last gent in public affairs showing a flair for poetry (not counting the Bhojpuri aphorismsspouting Lalu Prasad Yadav) was Atal Bihari Vajpayee. So what a pleasant irony that in his debut collection of poems, I Witness: Partial Observations (IndiaInk, Rs 295), Congressman and Minister Kapil Sibal has chosen Vajpayee as a subject for a poem.
- Play focuses on domestic violence - Leaf Chronicle
The spotlight hits the issue of domestic violence today in "Love Ain't Supposed to Hurt," written by local playwright Tammy McKeithen and featuring Bern Nadette Stanis, known as Thelma in the popular 1970s situation comedy "Good Times." McKeithen's ...
- Great Falls area writers offered exposure - KPAX-TV
Great Falls area writers offered exposureKPAX-TV, MT - 2 hours agoThe monthly poetry and prose reading forum got rolling Thursday night following a short break over the summer. The MSU-Great Falls Literary Guild and ...
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