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- Return of the spoken word - Prospect Magazine
Return of the spoken wordProspect Magazine, UK - 1 hour agoPoetry is a minority occupation in 21st-century Britain. A glance at the meagre, or non-existent, poetry shelf of most major bookshops confirms it. ...
- Great Green Show lineup (The Mail Tribune)
The strains of Bach's "Concerto for Two Violins" and Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No. 1" drift into the hills around the Oregon Shakespeare Festival under an unsettled spring sky, and the crowd in front of the OSF's Elizabethan Stage applauds generously.
- What's the worst song cover of all time? - Popwatch
Total Guitar magazine recently named Celine Dion and Anastacia's rendition of AC/CD's "You Shook Me All Night Long" (from 2002's Divas Las Vegas concert on VH1) as the worst song cover of all time. (Thanks to Popeater for the heads up.) As a rabid ...
- Entertainment week of June 20-26 - Orange Leader
The summer concert season arrives in style with loads of big name celebrities performing in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana this weekend. There is still time to make plans to attend any one of these fabulous events. Ford Park Beaumont’s ...
- Kerouac manuscript goes on... and on... at Texas exhibit (The Wichita Eagle)
The first words read, "I first met Neal after my father died." Later -- 119 feet, 8 inches later -- it reads, "eaten by dogs." The yellowing manuscript has no chapter or paragraph breaks. The sentences are single-spaced. And so the helter-skelter typewritten words pour forth, one after another, on the original typewritten manuscript of Jack Kerouac's generation-changing novel, "On the Road." ...
- Lots of festival fun for kids to enjoy - Dispatch Online
Lots of festival fun for kids to enjoyDispatch Online, South Africa - 4 hours agoHis South African-flavoured rap-and-slam poetry made me laugh and think a lot. Days later I am still rapping: “When you gonna learn man. ...
- Mystery still clouds teen’s death - Houma Courier
Mystery still clouds teen’s deathHouma Courier, Louisiana - 3 hours ago"I love my brother, no matter what," his youngest sister, Jani, wrote in a poem. "I know we fought in the past. He was such a good brother. ...
- Berlin's Holocaust memorial holds open-air concert - International Herald Tribune
Berlin's Holocaust memorial holds open-air concertInternational Herald Tribune, France - 6 hours agoIt was designed by American architect Peter Eisenman and cost €27.6 million (US$42.4 million) to build. It is open 24 hours a day.
- Beautiful 'Tree' bears fruit despite ill-suited story line - Chicago Sun-Times
Beautiful 'Tree' bears fruit despite ill-suited story lineChicago Sun-Times, United States - 6 hours agoThe transformation scenes are at first hypnotic visual poetry. And choreographer Renato Zanella has found wonderful ways to animate Adams' score onstage ...
- Tessa! : Joie de vivre and ‘Oooh la la!’ in Manila / Tessa Prieto ... - Inquirer.net
Tessa! : Joie de vivre and ‘Oooh la la!’ in Manila / Tessa Prieto ...Inquirer.net, Philippines - 1 hour ago“Romanza†is a unique interaction between art and poetry, truly a collector’s item that shows the unique interaction between the “sister arts. ...
- Spellbound with Gossamer - Sunshine Coast Daily
Spellbound with GossamerSunshine Coast Daily, Australia - 41 minutes ago“I look at nature, admire art, read poetry and listen to music – it all inspires me to paint.†Her next exhibition, entitled Gossamer, will open at the ...
- Teen Poets Face Off - 13WHAM-TV
Teen Poets Face Off13WHAM-TV, NY - 12 hours agoNorma Holland visited Writers and Books on University Avenue previewed the Citywide Teen Poetry Slam Finals being held Saturday, April 26 at 6 pm at ...
- SLP (Self) Promotion - Seattle Post Intelligencer
SLP (Self) PromotionSeattle Post Intelligencer - 48 minutes agoHis work has been anthologized in "180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday" and "The Best American Poetry 2007." His poems have also been featured online ...
- Tablet linked to 'Manyoshu' entry found in Shiga (The Japan Times)
OTSU, Shiga Pref. (Kyodo) A famous poem from the "Manyoshu," the earliest existing collection of Japanese poetry, was found written on an ancient wooden tablet unearthed in 1997 in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, the local education committee said. The implement, a "mokkan," is the first such item found bearing a "Manyoshu" poem. Inscribed on the other side was another famous ancient poem, although not ...
- Young SV poet published in anthology - Scotts Valley/San Lorenzo Valley Press-Banner
Young SV poet published in anthologyScotts Valley/San Lorenzo Valley Press-Banner, CA - 1 hour ago... a couple of poems selected for the anthology published annually by the Santa Cruz County High School Poetry Competition, sponsored by Poetry Santa Cruz. ...
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