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- Tracey was here (Guardian Unlimited)
No artist has confused their work and life to greater effect. But is there more to Tracey Emin than private trauma made public? By Jonathan Jones
- Local poetry slam team doesn't advance (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
The Worcester Poetry Slam Team, competing at the National Poetry Slam Finals in Madison, Wis., last week, performed well in the performance competition, but did not score high enough to advance to the semifinal round, according to posts on the Worcester Poets Asylum blog and the blog of team member Trevor Byrne-Smith of Worcester.
- Tom Junod on the future death of Steve Jobs - CrunchGear
Tom Junod on the future death of Steve JobsCrunchGear, NY - 1 hour agoTrying to write this story about Bill Gates is like writing lyric poetry about a Turing Machine - the story isn’t the same nor does it have the same pathos.
- El Panderosa: Obama, McCain make play for Hispanic voters - Daily Oklahoman
Oh, perdon . I was just tuning up for an interview with Baracko Obama and Juan McCain . Dog sex tapes lead to arrests Marshals round up 227 fugitives in western... McEntire family remembers McSpadden Mustang man admits to making pornographic... OKC ...
- All Indian life is here (Guardian Unlimited)
The BBC recently celebrated its success in drawing 10 million viewers to the final episode of the latest series of Doctor Who, but it was still a long way short of the figures achieved by Doordarshan, the Indian state television company, which in the late 1980s drew more than 100 million viewers to its mythological epic, the Ramayana.
- Kenya: Books Picked for Mutahi Wahome Award (AllAfrica.com)
Six books have been nominated for the Wahome Mutahi Literary Awards to be presented on Saturday as part of an upcoming book fair.
- Track star Jason Walton killed by train - Hopewell Valley News
Track star Jason Walton killed by trainHopewell Valley News, NJ - 1 hour agoJason was also part of the peer mentor program at the high school and enjoyed writing short stories and poetry. Surviving are his parents, Ernest and Linda ...
- America Back on Track... for Tuesday, July 15th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from H.P. Lovecraft who said, "Someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or ...
- Plot captures JonBenet Ramsay murder case - London Free Press
Plot captures JonBenet Ramsay murder caseLondon Free Press, Canada - 15 minutes agoThe way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that -- her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Fall Arts Guide: 5 Questions for Preston Singletary, glass artist - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Post IntelligencerFall Arts Guide: 5 Questions for Preston Singletary, glass artistSeattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours agoMy father dabbled in painting, poetry, carving and outdoors activities, while my mom did lots of hand crafting, mostly textiles and crochet. ...
- Pair of Statues have a Tale to Tell (East Aurora Advertiser)
Two of East Aurora's most well-known men are also its two quietest. Called Bert and Mike by some of those who know them best, they're two of the oldest fellows in town, and you may have even sat on their shoulders as a kid, but they've never said a word to you. It's not that they're made of stone; no, they're made of bronze, and they're the statues of Elbert Hubbard and Michelangelo that have ...
- Author and Poet Pat Mora to Receive Luis Leal Literature Award - UC Santa Barbara
Author and Poet Pat Mora to Receive Luis Leal Literature AwardUC Santa Barbara, CA - 2 hours agoAmong her collections of poetry are "Agua Santa: Holy Water"; "Adobe Odes"; "Communion"; "Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints"; "Borders"; and "Chants. ...
- 21st annual mayor's walk draws a crowd - St. George Daily Spectrum
21st annual mayor's walk draws a crowdSt. George Daily Spectrum, UT - 3 hours agoMcArthur walked down the course with his megaphone, singing “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” and reciting poetry. Jolene and 10-year-old Leighton Ipson, ...
- Foreign intelligence - The Times
Foreign intelligenceThe Times, South Africa - 1 minute agoHe prefers American authors, relating more to the poetry of their prose and the human dilemmas of their characters. “English crime fiction is largely ...
- Movement guru Zuleikha coming to Sarasota soon (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Internationally renowned movement guru Zuleikha has taught children and women with cancer to promote healing through movement, led Muslim and Christian Israelis and Palestinians in free movement and rhythm games, and empowered Indian teenage girls with the self-esteem that comes from "holding ourselves upright even beneath the burkha."
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