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- Finding Common Ground - Popmatters.com
Caetano Veloso’s 1973 album Araçá Azul is as defiantly unconventional and challenging as Godard’s pioneering New Wave classic Breathless (1960), altering the possibilities and expectations of his chosen medium. Caetano Veloso and Jean-Luc ...
- At writing camp, schlepping goes with scholarship (AP via Yahoo! News)
It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s.
- Free books for children - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukFree books for childrenguardian.co.uk, UK - 7 hours agoThe packs will also contain a guidance booklet for parents and carers to encourage sharing books with children, and for the first time, a poetry book: The ...
- 'The Closer' recap: Lending a helping hand - Popwatch
There was a certain symmetrical poetry in last night's episode of The Close r: The juxtaposition of silence and incessant chatter, the competing tones of goofy comedy and jarring violence, the sudden and unexpected shifts in power in the ongoing ...
- Foreclosures raise health concerns (Boston Globe)
Half-full with water turned green by algae and surrounded by knee-high grass, the kiddie pool behind the foreclosed house on Bank Street provides the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. Such properties are a growing concern for health agent Michelle Roberts. "It's starting to become a real problem," Roberts said last week of the town's 10 or so foreclosed and ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - Boston Herald
H ONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- The Calendar - MiamiHerald.com
The CalendarMiamiHerald.com, FL - 1 hour ago... a new publishing organization, Editorial Ultramar, with the first book by Cuban-born poet Rodrigo de la Luz, Poesia Viva. Poetry reading is in Spanish. ...
- From the 2006 benefit anthology "Hurricane Blues," edited by ... - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.comFrom the 2006 benefit anthology "Hurricane Blues," edited by ...The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 3 hours agoPoetry lends itself to all occasions, happy and sad, everyday and rare. It offers a multitude of forms -- the exquisite slenderness of a haiku, ...
- The Weekend Warrior: August 8 - 10 - ComingSoon.net
The Weekend Warrior: August 8 - 10ComingSoon.net - Aug 5, 2008Sometime in the '90s, it was decided by studios that it's better to get a much wider teen audience who have more disposable income, so they started cutting ...
- Convention Shwag: Joint Juice, UPS Mints - New York Observer
This morning at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Denver, convention volunteers distributed six-pound black canvas bags to accredited reporters. The bags are filled with guides, cans of Joint Juice (Glucosamine - Hydrate and Lubricate Your Joints ...
- Arts collide for opening of building (Athens Banner-Herald)
With half of the University of Georgia's arts departments now located at the fashionable new East Campus, it begs the question: Do the remaining departments - drama and dance - feel left out?
- From the Stacks by Nanette Morges - Norwalk Hour
It's that time of year again. You can almost hear Alice Cooper's anthem "School's Out" reverberating in the air. But just because classes are over, doesn't mean books get tossed into the bottom of the closet. For many students, it's time to tackle ...
- Focus: Poetry -- Eating their words - DeSoto Appeal
Focus: Poetry -- Eating their wordsDeSoto Appeal, TN - 1 hour ago"If you see these poems," says student Sapna Kedia, "You have a whole new view of children's writing." Thomson is gratified that the kids can publish their ...
- Poet Dannie Abse on how writing helped him through grief - Women.timesonline
For an 85-year-old widower with a heart condition and a habit of saying “no thanks†to social engagements, the writer Dannie Abse is remarkably busy. He recently won the Wales Book of the Year award, is finishing a landmark volume of his ...
- Dylan Thomas Prize Finalists Announced (The New York Sun)
The 14 finalists for the Dylan Thomas literary prize were announced yesterday, the BBC reported. The award honors English-language works by authors under 30, and is one of the largest literary purses an author can receive. At a press conference in Swansea, Wales, the late poet's hometown, actor Michael Sheen read the names of works of fiction and poetry that will vie for the $115,000 prize, to ...
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