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- Obama mentor: 'Smash on, victory-eating Red Army' - WorldNetDaily
The man who heavily influenced U.S. Sen. Barack Obama during his growing years wrote poetry praising the aggression of communism, criticizing "Sweet Jesus" and mocking the traditional hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers," according to an advocate for ...
- The Virginia Glee Club Finals Concert to be Held on May 17 - University of Virginia
The Virginia Glee Club Finals Concert to be Held on May 17University of Virginia, VA - 1 hour agoThe work sets poetry from Walt Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass," the manuscript of which can be found in U.Va.'s Special Collections Library. ...
- Psych Central Teams Up with the Authors of Bipolar Disorder For ... - PR-USA.net (press release)
Psych Central Teams Up with the Authors of Bipolar Disorder For ...PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - Jul 16, 2008Joe Kraynak, MA (Crawfordsville, Indiana) is a freelance author who has written and co-authored dozens of books on topics ranging from slam poetry to ...
- Helen and Kurt Wolff Reading: Daniela Seel - Poetic Prose - Chicago Public Radio
Helen and Kurt Wolff Reading: Daniela Seel - Poetic ProseChicago Public Radio, IL - 50 minutes agoIn 2003 she founded the publishing house KOOKbooks, intended as a “laboratory for poetry as a way of lifeâ€. To date, her literary texts have been published ...
- Mothers are central to human history (The Enid News & Eagle)
Most people understand, at least implicitly in their hearts, how crucial their mothers are to their upbringing and to what defines their basic personality and who they are fundamentally as a person today. To a baby and small child, mother is their whole world, their entire universe.
- Liz Mitten Ryan Leads the Herd at Book Expo America (PR.com)
World-renowned Artist-Equine Communicator Liz Mitten Ryan, Author of One with the Herd: A Spiritual Journey will appear at Book Expo America in Los Angeles May 29 – June 1, 2008. [PR.com - May 08, 2008]
- Rahsaan Patterson doesn't do labels - San Francisco Gate
Among R&B's legions of preening crooners, Rahsaan Patterson is the rare singer who eschews affected bravado for an eclectic style inspired by both his difficult past and his journey of self-discovery. Yet even a fan or close listener of Patterson ...
- Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mix - Gloucester Daily Times
Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mixGloucester Daily Times, USA - 7 hours agoAnd the fact that poets could only submit pieces of a limited length goes against the grain of what free poetry is all about. Now, there is debate over who ...
- Hold Steady struggle with consistency - UM Maneater
Hold Steady struggle with consistencyUM Maneater, MO - 2 hours agoBy Adam Daniels The Hold Steady have always toed a thin line between poetry and novelty. Craig Finn’s perpetually buzzed ...
- Chancellor Merkel Pays Tribute to Germany's "Literary Pope" (Deutsche Welle)
Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a tribute to Germany's best known and most feared literary critic who in many ways personified the restoration of cultural values in the country after World War II.
- Preparing for departure - The Columbus Dispatch
SEVILLE, Ohio -- When the nights get warm in this northeastern Ohio town, Lawrence Bartter sleeps on his screened-in back porch, cozying up beside his coffin. He started laboring on the wooden box years ago. The lid lies off to the side, the hinges ...
- The Edge of Love (15) - The Independent
the film is much less about Thomas than it is about two women who were central to his life. It presents a portrait of friendship, not a portrait of the artist. I've not been able to look at the name Dylan Thomas without being reminded of Kingsley ...
- Father Amir dies - Arab Times
Father Amir diesArab Times, Kuwait - 30 minutes agoSometimes the conversation drifted to purely intellectual topics punctuated by fits of inspired poetry. The lyric and rhythm in the flowing verses had a ...
- The buzz on 'Garden of Last Days' (Portsmouth Herald)
It started with the image of a wad of cash on a bedroom bureau. From there "The Garden of Last Days" took Andre Dubus III to Florida strip clubs, 9/11 hijackers, the Koran, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the gym parking lot and a gushing column by...
- Who are the real lesbians? (Independent)
When is a lesbian not a Lesbian? The answer's in the capital letter – it's when you are a woman who loves women, rather than an inhabitant of the Aegean paradise of Lesbos (or Lesvos in the modern spelling). For decades, foolish and unsophisticated tourists have giggled about the coincidence of the Greek island and the sexual orientation. Now it's become the crux of a legal dispute whose ...
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