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- Pencil This In - Gothamist
GothamistPencil This InGothamist, NY - 58 minutes agoThe comedy show features: slammin' dance routines, army recruiting, Christian poetry, wild pranks, dirty skanks, and the cool teacher who frosts his hair ...
- Eleanor O'Leary - prolific writer since her early days at Vassar - San Francisco Chronicle
Eleanor O'Leary - prolific writer since her early days at VassarSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 41 minutes agoThe voice itself, heard, with great poetry and feeling, yet with no straining to affect, and I suddenly understood the ecstatic, nostalgic praises of the ...
- Folkfest teaches culture within Nipawin On May 3 the Leadership 30 class at L.P. Miller put on their fourth annual ... (Nipawin Journal)
Folkfest teaches culture within Nipawin By Melissa Mangelsen Journal Staff On May 3 the Leadership 30 class at L.P. Miller put on their fourth annual Folkfest.
- Poetic Justice: Spike in sales for Kay Ryan, the next poet laureate (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall.
- Doing Battle With the Bard (The New York Sun)
"Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare?" asks Nigel Smith in the title of his new book (Harvard University Press, 240 pages, $22.95). The obvious answer is no: It would be hard to dispute that Shakespeare's plays are more powerful, and more central to our culture, than Milton's biblical epics or his artfully classical lyrics. Around the world, when people dream about true love, they think of Romeo ...
- Leonard Cohen performs for rapturous T.O. crowd (CTV.ca)
After a series of "rehearsal shows," legendary singer and poet Leonard Cohen officially kicked off his world tour Friday with a three-hour performance in front of a rapt Toronto audience.
- John Updike on American Art (US News & World Report)
The writer brings a life of creative and critical labor to the examination of American masterworks.
- Arts listings - Austin 360 (subscription)
Arts listingsAustin 360 (subscription), TX - Apr 9, 2008'The Austin International Poetry Festival.'The world's largest non-juried poetry festival with venues all over town and a choice of poets and slams. ...
- Poet Mabasa releases gospel album - Nehanda Radio
Nehanda RadioPoet Mabasa releases gospel albumNehanda Radio, Zimbabwe - 5 hours agoBy Calvin Bembere Popular Zimbabwean novelist cum poet Ignatius Tirivangani Mabasa has turned to music with the release of a 12 tack gospel poetry musical ...
- Phoebe Snow Revisits `Poetry Man,' Offers New Tunes at Birdland - Bloomberg
Phoebe Snow Revisits `Poetry Man,' Offers New Tunes at BirdlandBloomberg - 1 hour agoReturning to her music has been a priority for Snow since the March 2007 death of daughter, Valerie Rose, who suffered from brain trauma during birth and ...
- School remembers 'gifted' teenager - St. Albans Observer
HUNDREDS of students today paid their respects to a teenager who died unexpectedly at the weekend. Fourteen-year-old Rupert Marson died at his home in Boundary Road in St Albans on Sunday morning. The 'popular and bright' boy was remembered at a ...
- Ineffable lightness of being Cesare and Jean Marie Syjuco (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - Scrolling through avant-garde artist Cesare A. X. Syjuco’s on-line blog is an exercise in momentary displacement. There is nothing there; not a single line of his famous cryptexts or those raging dialogues between debating punctuation marks.
- Juneteenth events to include fest, walk (El Paso Times)
While the possibility that Sen. Barack Obama could become the country's first black president will loom large over Saturday's annual Juneteenth Celebration, it won't be an official part of the outdoor festival.
- Robert Frost house vandals sentenced to poetic punishment - Paste Magazine
Paste MagazineRobert Frost house vandals sentenced to poetic punishmentPaste Magazine, GA - 5 hours agoThat poetry affects daily life is, almost literally, the first rule in the book. (You know, Plato's book, from 2400 years ago.) In his Republic, he expelled ...
- Bring on the Ruckus - PW-Philadelphia Weekly
PW-Philadelphia WeeklyBring on the RuckusPW-Philadelphia Weekly, PA - 1 hour agoAnd I’m utterly addicted to this art, my art … this poetry. I recently returned from performing in Vienna to begin an important phase in my life: the ...
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