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- Regional Happenings: Elvis Week, cowboys, melons & more (Baxter Bulletin)
Here's a look at local and regional happenings.
- Drift into past in poetry book - Baytown Sun
When writing about local authors recently, I meant to mention a collector’s item on my book shelf — “Driftwood and Dreams,” an anthology of poems published in 1955 by Candor Press. Most of the writers belonged to the then-active Baytown ...
- Cheers to Shiraz (Payvand Iran News)
Sitting on the patio at an Irish pub on King Street in downtown Toronto with half-empty glasses of red wine, waiting for nachos, we talk wine. Sauvignon, Merlot, or Shiraz. Sweet or dry. Mature or young. On colour we can agree, but everything else led to controversy. A ceasefire begins only when I started talking about my favourite type of wine. I prefer Shiraz -- not because of its taste, but ...
- I'll Take the Manhattan - Las Cruces Sun-News
I'll Take the ManhattanLas Cruces Sun-News, NM - 17 hours ago... poetry is like playing tennis without a net. Or, in the words of one wise friend, "Dude, every once in a while can I just get something to drink? ...
- Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate (New York Times)
A reserved writer who has been compared to Emily Dickinson, Ms. Ryan has been chosen to succeed Charles Simic as the nation?s 16th poet laureate
- Pembroke No. 40, farm novel (The Fayetteville Observer)
Pembroke Magazine No. 40, a literary journal, has been released with a special section devoted to Hispanic and Latino/Latina literature. The magazine section’s guest editor is Dr. Liliana Wendorff, the chairwoman of the Foreign Languages Department at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
- SOUNDS like summer - St. John's Telegram
SOUNDS like summerSt. John's Telegram, Canada - 14 hours agoIt could be sound poetry, film that has to do with sound, anything like that. But we do focus on sound. It's not just like, 'Oh, bring your paintings. ...
- Silver Jews Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea - Paste Magazine
Though chief semite David Berman sounds less electrified—and more gentrified—than usual on Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea , he’s the rare songwriter who’s better for it. Relying on elliptical truisms (“What is Not But Could Be If ...
- Michael Coren: G.K. Chesterton, an icon to too few - Nationalpost.com
The New Yorker magazine recently got into all sorts of trouble for its satirical front cover cartoon depicting Barack Obama as an orthodox Muslim and his wife Michelle as a terrorist. Some people, it seems, simply can't take a joke. G.K. Chesterton ...
- ANDY YSIANO “COOL ARROW” THE LAST OF THE PRETTY BOYS - La Prensa Hispana
La Prensa HispanaANDY YSIANO “COOL ARROW” THE LAST OF THE PRETTY BOYSLa Prensa Hispana, CA - 16 hours agoAs the alcoholic, now famous poet Edgar Allen Poe did many years ago, bartering his poetry, Andy was prone to do the same with his songs as a means to ...
- Improvisation...Like The Weather - All About Jazz
Improvisation...Like The WeatherAll About Jazz, PA - 4 hours agoMy performance world is sonic; more poetry than prose, more like the weather than the forecast—more pliable and less specific—cloud-like and always shifting ...
- BR Area for Aug. 15-21, 2008 - 2TheAdvocate
BR Area for Aug. 15-21, 20082TheAdvocate, LA - 5 hours agoMust be 18 to be admitted. http://www.redstickcomedy.com OPEN MIC POETRY SHOW: 8 pm, Insomkneeacks, 9895 Florida Blvd., Suite B, upstairs next to the ...
- Katherine Blumm, Michael de Zayas - New York Times
New York TimesKatherine Blumm, Michael de ZayasNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoHe graduated from Florida International University in Miami and received a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Sarah Lawrence.
- Around the Area - News Report
Around the AreaNews Report, NJ - 2 hours agoThe workshop is free, but registration is required. Call (609) 267-9660, ext. 3072 to register. POETRY WORKSHOPS: Poetry workshops presented by the ...
- Packed house at Hasya Kavi Sammelan - IndiaPost.com
Packed house at Hasya Kavi SammelanIndiaPost.com, CA - 1 hour agoHe also did a funny piece on Laloo Prasad Yadav and referred to Sept 11 as Bin Laden Ekadasi. A lot of his poetry was fired by patriotism and nationalism. ...
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