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- A man of few words: Poet shares love, talent for beauty, simplicity of writing (McKinney Messenger)
Poetry expresses more thoughts and feelings than short stories or novels, a fact that poet A.J. Chilson said he admires because it accomplishes more by using less words.
- 'Slam' provides local storytellers a creative outlet (The Oklahoman)
Friday afternoon, I learned about a form of comic relief that likely will appeal to office workers. It's an offshoot of the Arts Council of Oklahoma's Wintertales storytelling program and modeled after PoetrySlam, where budding poets get to share with an audience verses they've penned. OKC StorySlam does the same thing, except in storytelling form, and each month focuses on a different theme. ...
- Fame and Fortune: Alan Sillitoe - Times Online
Times OnlineFame and Fortune: Alan SillitoeTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoHis ninth novel, A Start in Life, has just been republished. Sillitoe, 80, has also published several collections of poetry, short stories and plays. ...
- Huntsville doc publishes poetry with medical touch (Montgomery Advertiser)
HUNTSVILLE -- After a stressful day at his Huntsville medical practice, Dr. Scott Williams heads home and writes poetry.
- Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, 'The Coral Sea' (PASK) (Spin)
When she's singing, pioneering mystic punk Patti Smith can be extraordinarily mortal. But in recitation, she approaches the godly, delivering her poetry's surreal grace with sheer force. Here, she's captured twice in concert feverishly reading her phantasmagoric memorial to friend and artist Robert Mapplethorpe with the accompaniment of fellow savant Kevin Shields, the reclusive My Bloody ...
- Independent View: The Marriage's Rod Humble - IGN
IGNIndependent View: The Marriage's Rod HumbleIGN, CA - 5 hours agoI respect his ability to straddle entertainment and art His poetry hits a sweet spot with me between humor and nostalgia. IGN: Have you ever cried playing a ...
- Emmet Meara: Man facial turns big oaf into beautiful metrosexual - Bangor Daily News
Emmet Meara: Man facial turns big oaf into beautiful metrosexualBangor Daily News, ME - 14 hours agoFor those with no poetry in their souls, the cost is $70. The stones are another $20, cheapskate. My grandfather was a Boston Steel worker. ...
- The traveling circus of diversification - Marketwatch
ABU DHABI (MarketWatch) -- At some point, I'll write about how I ended up in the United Arab Emirates. For now, this is how my wife ended up in Montreal: My stepdaughter ran away with the circus, and my wife followed. It is a conversation starter ...
- THE LISTENER - Washington Post
(Illustration By Viktor Koen) Bill Watson might play a four-hour piece by Bach, and then slap it on again, just because he felt like it. Or he might interrupt a Mahler symphony mid-spin, deciding instead to recite poetry or blend news bulletins with ...
- Celebrate Arts & Music - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Celebrate Arts & MusicDubuque Telegraph Herald, IA - 6 hours ago... as well as poetry, memoir, fiction and nonfiction. Paula Neuhaus, guild president and free-lance writer, edited the project with anthropologist Alice ...
- Young minister making mark at St. Andrew’s - Cochrane Times
Young minister making mark at St. Andrew’sCochrane Times, Canada - 1 hour agoShe also really enjoyed visiting with the seniors and sharing spirituality through a poetry session one hour of a week. In 2006, Klassen received her ...
- Craig S. Semon Tracks - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Finally, Jakob Dylan delivers an album that can make his daddy proud. And that’s no small feat when your old man is no other than enigmatic rock ’n’ roll legend Bob Dylan. After five albums as the leader of the platinum-selling, Grammy-winning ...
- Lloyd Schwartz, response - Boston Globe
The Boston Phoenix critic has sent a response to the criticism of his role at the Tanglewood Music Center. Given that so much relevant information I willingly supplied to the Exhibitionist blog was inexplicaly absent from the public post, I'm not ...
- Measuring Our Emotional Quotient - CU Columbia Spectator
Measuring Our Emotional QuotientCU Columbia Spectator, NY - 5 hours agoMany other SAS meetings, speak-outs, Centennial Scholars projects, and “sacred slams” of spoken-word poetry have followed. Most recently the group has ...
- Every school every Thursday -- D.M. South (The Des Moines Register)
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