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- Local artists battle in monthly show - Chabot Spectator
Local artists battle in monthly showChabot Spectator - 1 hour agoThe show has an usual formula consisting of a poetry slams, dirt haiku battles, freestyle battles, and a headliner. Due to the impromptu theatrics and ...
- Soldiering on - Guardian Unlimited
In one of Tobias Wolff's early stories, a married professor has a one-night stand with a vulnerable woman helping out with the catering at an academic conference. Brooke, the professor, dislikes his colleague Riley, a Yeats scholar with an ...
- One of poetry's finest reminds us of our place in the natural world (The Japan Times)
Skinny frog Don't give up! Issa is here He has been dead for 180 years, but Kobayashi Issa's haiku keep reminding us that the essence of Japan's culture lies in its intimate tie to nature. Humans are seen by him entirely as an element in nature, where ideally there is no artificial hierarchy and certainly no holier-than-thou moralizing. Read the full story
- AT THE LIBRARY: Meet Poets Honeycutt and Owens on Sept. 27 - Gaston Gazette
Greater Gaston poetry lovers are invited to join award-winning authors Irene Blair Honeycutt ("Before the Light Changes" - 2008) and Scott Owens ("The Fractured World" - 2008) in a reading and discussion of their new poetry collections at 2 p.m. Sept ...
- Church has heart for art - Greenville News
Church has heart for artGreenville News, SC - 5 hours agoI wrote poetry. I like singing, I like artwork." Now, as he approaches his 47th birthday, the "American African Warthog," as he styles himself, ...
- Gargoyle author takes buzz in stride - Brantford Expositor
Gargoyle author takes buzz in strideBrantford Expositor, Canada - 8 hours agoHe has been writing seriously since age 16, penning screenplays, stage plays, short stories and poetry. Prior to The Gargoyle, a few of his poems had been ...
- Kidnap suspect calls days with daughter 'glorious' - Miami Herald
BOSTON The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller and is accused of kidnapping his young daughter says he spent "six glorious and wonderful days" with the girl while evading authorities, but he still isn't talking about his life before 1993. Police ...
- Daniel Radcliffe: Lost Virginity to Older Woman (US Weekly)
Holy Hogwarts! In October's Details, Daniel Radcliffe confesses that he lost his virginity at age 16 (Britain's age of consent) -- and that the woman was older. The age difference "wasn't ridiculous," the actor, now, 19, says. "But it would freak some people out." (Though Radcliffe doesn't name-drop, a source says in the new issue of Us Weekly the ex is Amy Byrne, an assistant hairdresser...
- Episcopal Seminarian Releases Gay Christian Poetry Anthology ... - Market Wire (press release)
BBC NewsEpiscopal Seminarian Releases Gay Christian Poetry Anthology ...Market Wire (press release) - 2 hours agoSAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - July 28, 2008) - This month marks the publication of the world's first poetry anthology devoted exclusively to works by ...A song of praise for the poet in peril IndependentLambeth Marketplace offers goods, ideas, meeting place Episcopal News Serviceall 426 news articles
- Music Will Ignite World Premiere of Beaty's 'Resurrection' at Arena; Cast Announced (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Casting has been announced for the Arena Stage's production of Daniel Beaty's Resurrection, a music, dance and poetry-filled new work introducing us to a handful of varied African-American men.
- Bob Dylan names Burns as inspiration - Herald
Music legend Bob Dylan has revealed his source of greatest inspiration - Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns. Dylan was asked to name the lyric or verse that has had the greatest impact on his life. He selected the 1794 love song A Red, Red Rose ...
- Ostler: Ungodly results from Bolt put him up there with Phelps - San Francisco Chronicle
Ostler: Ungodly results from Bolt put him up there with PhelpsSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour ago"It is poetry in motion. He's not like a beast running; he's a gazelle." Bay Area fans may remember Nehemiah from his brief career as a wide receiver with ...
- THIS ABOVE ALL - Tribune
S ad news from Pakistan. Ahmed Faraz is dying or dead. He was, or is, the leading Urdu poet of his time and drew large crowds of poetry lovers in Pakistan and India in mushairas . I had the privilege of spending many evenings with him when I was in ...
- Fall Preview: Performance - BurlingtonFreePress.com
Fall Preview: PerformanceBurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - 1 hour agoThe Bronx-based ensemble Universes fuses poetry, theater, jazz, hip-hop, social issues, down-home blues and Spanish boleros to create a unique form of ...
- Juliette Binoche gets metaphysical - Times Online
Juliette Binoche gets metaphysicalTimes Online, UK - 21 minutes agoAs she abandons film for a year to pursue a new dance project, the Oscar-winning actress talks of art, love, intuition and intimacy Behind an anonymous door ...
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