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- Poetic return for city native (North Adams Transcript)
NORTH ADAMS -- A North Adams native and Drury High School graduate will return to the city on Saturday to share her poetry with a community she hid it from while growing up.
- Street lit offers outlet for upstart authors - Philadelphia Daily News
"How you doin', sister?" Khalil Robinson calls to a young woman passing his stand in the lunchtime rush. "I got a new author here." Behind Robinson, the self-described "Philly Book Man," sits his large display of street lit - books with glossy covers ...
- It's time to take this veteran's mementos home (Louisville Courier-Journal)
About eight years ago -- just before he died -- Robert Dalton Buster sent me a box of his Vietnam memories wrapped in brown manila paper; $3.45 postage from Edmonton, Ky.
- Humanities is stories - World Magazine
Humanities is storiesWorld Magazine, NC - 2 hours agoStories are free, after all, but of course it doesn’t hurt to throw a little money at those who write them down for us.
- Pulitzer poet Trethewey to hold reading at USM (The Clarion-Ledger)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey will hold a reading next month at the University of Southern Mississippi.
- Obama & the Conquest of Denver (New York Review of Books)
1. I tagged along to the Democratic National Convention in Denver with my wife, Ayelet Waldman, one of five pledged Obama delegates elected from the 9th Congressional District of California. Like every political convention, I suppose, this one was quite a show: a spectacle.
- First work - Alton Telegraph
First workAlton Telegraph, IL - 2 hours agoBy MAGGIE BORMAN Michael Down, 24, has loved poetry since he first got interested in it at age 15 - the same age he began writing poetry. ...
- Time-tested plot draws audience into Depression - Contra Costa College Advocate
Time-tested plot draws audience into DepressionContra Costa College Advocate, CA - 3 hours agoShe studies French art and poetry in her free time, wishing to one day delve into the culture. Her grandfather, a retired old-timer simply known as "Gramps ...
- Clive James at the Festival - Scotland on Sunday
Clive James at the FestivalScotland on Sunday, UK - 4 hours agoI also read my poetry in the afternoons, to audiences of 11. We stayed in hideous flats with no hot water, three to a room, and lived off haggis suppers and ...
- FACTBOX: A glimpse of Chinese ancient literature - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- John Woo's historical epic, "Red Cliff", released last month depicted the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 AD, a major theme in a Chinese classic novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Here are some facts about China's ancient ...
- NB playwright finding success - Times and Transcript
NB playwright finding successTimes and Transcript, Canada - 2 hours agoSince then, she has produced innumerable pieces of poetry, prose and scripts that have brought to light the struggles of the modern-day woman. ...
- Chuckling at midlife crisis - iAfrica.com
iAfrica.comChuckling at midlife crisisiAfrica.com, South Africa - 11 hours agoThey may try to take up painting, poetry, cycle racing — whatever they were planning to do before the rat race or the child-bearing years intervened. ...
- Palin retaliates by touting experience - Globe and Mail
Volatility Stalker from Canada writes: The media has been so remarkably hostile to this woman who has a family that most Americans could relate to. They have inadvertently set the bar so low on expectations about her that she probably can shine by ...
- A new reading of Emily Dickinson. - New Yorker
New YorkerA new reading of Emily Dickinson.New Yorker, United States - 22 minutes agoIn the course of their friendship, Higginson tried to lead this “wayward†sport of nature, whose rhymes were off, whose rhythm he called “spasmodic,†whose ...
- Ginsberg poem sets the tempo for Brentano Quartet performance - Kansas City Star
Ginsberg poem sets the tempo for Brentano Quartet performanceKansas City Star, MO - 27 minutes agoAnd “Howl†is not just a musical soundtrack inspired by a landmark, notorious piece of American poetry. It’sa unified, high-energy piece of modernity where ...
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