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- PERFORMING IN PRISON: Both sides of the bars - Juneau Empire (subscription)
PERFORMING IN PRISON: Both sides of the barsJuneau Empire (subscription), AK - 57 minutes agoThey showed us their poetry. They sang their songs they'd written. There's some very talented people in prison," he said. "Some of those guys thought I was ...
- Cohen's the Homme in his Hometown - Boston Globe
With visions of tea and oranges dancing in his head, assistant arts editor and "SE" contributor James Reed went all the way to Montreal yesterday to catch Leonard Cohen’s homecoming show there. And it was worth it… "OK, is that what I think it is ...
- Announcing the teams competing at the National Poetry Slam 2008 in ... - Isthmus Daily Page
Announcing the teams competing at the National Poetry Slam 2008 in ...Isthmus Daily Page, WI - 11 hours agoAltogether they will comprise 76 teams, the final selection of which was announced last Friday by the national organizers Poetry Slam Incorporated. ...
- Monday Medley - Pueblo Chieftain
Long before shoppers explored the cyber wonder-worlds of amazon.com and eBay, there was an alternative to shopping in person: catalogs. This is noteworthy because today marks the 136th anniversary of the first mail-order catalog, published by ...
- That economic squeeze you feel isn't your imagination (Las Vegas Business Press)
Americans feel squeezed now and economist Jared Bernstein senses why. He says the costs of many basic items in their market basket -- health care, education, child care -- have risen steadily although wages haven't kept up.
- Talking with author Ta-Nehisi Coates - Newsday
Talking with author Ta-Nehisi CoatesNewsday, NY - 57 minutes ago"Before I started writing," Ta-Nehisi Coates said, "I told [my parents], 'Look, if I'm going to do this you have to understand that it's going to be all out ...
- Urdu translation of Bosnian poet’s book launched - Pakistan Daily
Urdu translation of Bosnian poet’s book launchedPakistan Daily, Pakistan - 6 hours agoTranslator of the book Dr. Mohammad Hamid said that Mac Dizdar appears to be inspired by Allama Iqbal’s poetry with respect to style and message. ...
- Judge Hull Remembered As Man Of Strong Faith - Greeneville Sun
Judge Hull Remembered As Man Of Strong FaithGreeneville Sun, TN - 1 hour ago... a man with a deep and loving commitment to his family, and a person who loved and enjoyed music and poetry and managed to include both in a busy life. ...
- Gift to help BYU promote the arts (Deseret Morning News)
History lessons brought to life through theater and poetry, social problems taught using painting and music, dance as an integral part of social education it's all part of Beverley Taylor Sorenson's dream for Utah elementary schools.
- I'm forswunk of Burns' dewy-eyed doggerel, says Paxman - Times Online
Times OnlineI'm forswunk of Burns' dewy-eyed doggerel, says PaxmanTimes Online, UK - 10 hours agoand that within his poetry were contradictions as rich as humanity itself: “What an antithetical mind!†he wrote. “Tenderness, roughness - delicacy ...
- Appetite for learning shapes seniors' life - Daily Yomiuri On-Line
"We know the poet's a man, but is there any part of his poem that successfully conveys the feelings of a woman?" When Prof. Shinji Watanabe asked his class about a poem from the Spoon River Anthology (1915), told from the point of view of a female ...
- Roxbury Film Festival and Berklee College of Music - Jazz-Quad
Jazz-QuadRoxbury Film Festival and Berklee College of MusicJazz-Quad, Belarus - 4 hours agoThis is the Life chronicles the rise and fall of this "family" of African-American street poets, while examining their obstacles to commercial success. ...
- Kudos: S.F. chowder house takes home prize for creative crab recipe (The San Francisco Examiner)
Hats - or should we say toques - off to San Francisco's Blue Mermaid Chowder House for earning honors in the 27th Annual Great Chowder Cook-off, held this summer in Newport, R.I.
- Poet Marie Howe's reading on Wednesday canceled - Democrat and Chronicle
Marie Howe’s poetry reading Wednesday at Writers & Books has been canceled because of because of travel difficulties. Howe, a Rochester native, was to appear as part of the Visiting Writers Series at 7 p.m. Howe's new poetry collection is The ...
- Serbia arrests leader charged with genocide - Concord Monitor
Serbia arrests leader charged with genocideConcord Monitor, NH - 15 hours agoIn 2005, a book of his poetry, titled "Under the Left Breast of the Century," was published in Serbia. And he outlived his onetime sponsor, ...
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