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- comments on: Tommy Loughran: Poetry in Motion - East Side Boxing
Nice article. I agree with your man Silver regardling Foster, I think Tommy should be favoured, and well done for highlighting the Braddock win, Jimmy was an accurate puncher, and although yet to peak, that's a very fine win against a big hitter. I ...
- A poet's Yorkshire retreat (Independent)
Iovershot at first, missing the turn into Zion Terrace entirely and zooming up past the clog factory. Prevented by high stone walls from turning round, I soon found myself on top of Yorkshire moorland, iridescent green in the afternoon sun. So this was where Gerald Hughes took his younger brother camping, smoking out weasels and shooting rabbits. I executed a cautious turn and swung back down ...
- Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New Criticism (The New York Sun)
Looking back on the 1930s from the perspective of middle age, Robert Lowell described it as a time "when criticism looked like winning." The years of Lowell's apprenticeship were the golden age of the New Criticism, the intellectually rigorous, closely analytical style of reading that grew up alongside modernism in poetry. The New Critics — John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, R.P. Blackmur, Yvor ...
- Poetess Victoria L. McColley from Indiana Has Released Her First ... - PR.com (press release)
Poetess Victoria L. McColley from Indiana Has Released Her First ...PR.com (press release), NY - 22 minutes agoCaptured Darkness is unique messages about love’s emotion, sorrow’s loss, demeaning betrayals, and sensual pleasures through dark emotive poetry. ...
- Inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize awarded (Guardian Unlimited)
Cambridge University graduate Kate Miller has won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for her poem After the Ban
- First mid-autumn festival holiday helps revive tradition (People's Daily)
With the first mid-autumn festival holiday nearly upon China, many people are asking 'what is it for?' An online survey by the website Sohu.com saw 55.7 percent of the 1,313 respondents saying they would spend the holiday with their families. The festival, similar to the Spring Festival or the dragon boat festival, has been a time for family reunion since ancient China. Li Kang, from Pingxiang ...
- Clubs preview: Beat Poetry, London - Guardian Unlimited
As the days start getting shorter, marginally less exciting and a darn sight more chilly, you'd be forgiven for deciding to stay in on a Friday night with a steaming mug of Bovril and a selection of giddy pipe dreams that involve you knitting Doctor ...
- Local briefs - Durham Herald Sun
Local briefsDurham Herald Sun, NC - 2 hours agoDurham-based The Beast melds jazz composition and improvisation with hip-hop poetry and soul grooves. Coolius Caesar pays tribute to the greatest radio ...
- Star power meets philanthropy with celeb charities (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Bono battles the AIDS epidemic.
- Palestinian 'national poet' dies - BBC Middle East
He is said to have given voice to the Palestinian dreams of statehood, crafted their 1988 declaration of independence and helped to forge a Palestinian national identity. "He started out as a poet of resistance and then he became a poet of conscience ...
- Fall Arts Guide: 5 questions for Felicia Gonzalez, Seattle Arts and ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Looks can deceive. When crowds pack Benaroya Hall for Seattle Arts & Lectures author events, the impression is of a local arts group flush with ticket income. But only half of Arts & Lectures' annual budget of $1.5 million comes from ticket sales ...
- A journey across the US in song - BBC News
BBC NewsA journey across the US in songBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoThere is just something in the cocktail of experiences that forged American place-names, that gives them a pleasing romantic resonance, ripe for poetry. ...
- The Manhattan Project - New York Magazine
New York MagazineThe Manhattan ProjectNew York Magazine, USA - 1 hour agoIn place of a dummy bomb will be a sculptural arrangement of debris frozen in midair, derived from Cornelia Parker’s Cold Dark Matter. ...
- Forward Prize in ‘exciting’ year - The Bookseller (subscription)
Forward Prize in ‘exciting’ yearThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoWilliam Sieghart, chairman of the Forward Arts Foundation, said: “[This is] an exciting year for poetry stars of the future and respected poets who deserve ...
- J.A. Allen (Member) - Bleacherreport.com
J.A. does not have any lineup writers. I graduated from the University of Iowa where my passion was writing. It still is. Besides college football and basketball, I am a tennis addict. I love to write--poetry and about sports. I consider myself well ...
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