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- James Tate's poems are about something and everything else (The Kansas City Star)
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You’ll remember “Seinfeld,” the sitcom dubbed “a show about nothing.” Here’s part of Charles Simic’s blurb for Tate’s new collection, The Ghost Soldiers: “To write a poem out of nothing at all is Tate’s genius. Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry, and that is ...
- Local filmmakers making box office gold - Victoria Advocate
Local filmmakers making box office goldVictoria Advocate, TX - 6 hours agoBY APRILL BRANDON - VICTORIA ADVOCATE She writes poetry; he writes grisly screenplays. He’s hard headed and she’s opinionated. They love each other and yet ...
- To Do: Poetry Reading (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune)
Members of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets will read selections of their poetry to celebrate the release of the 2009 Wisconsin Poets Calendar at 7 p.m. today in the All-Purpose Room at McMillan Memorial Library. Readers at this event include the current calendar editors, and current and previous calendar poets from the area, including Joan Wiese Johannes, Jeffrey Johannes, Jim Pollock, Beverly ...
- Tolworth author robbed of valuable manuscript - Kingston Guardian
A Tolworth author has appealed for the return of his valuable manuscript after being robbed in Surbiton last night when he stopped to ask for directions. Sohan Lal Saini, 72, of Hamilton Avenue, Tolworth was driving back from Surbiton station at 10 ...
- More than 50 of our favorite Portland things - Willamette Week
More than 50 of our favorite Portland thingsWillamette Week, OR - 32 minutes agoThat’s just a taste, excerpted from an original poem by MC Sossity Chiricuzio, of the extraordinarily dirty and often downright provocative poetry you’ll ...
- Paris Hilton's Mom Goes Ballistic on McCain (Free Times)
The presidential race descended into the surreal world of celebrity journalism recently when John McCain launched an ad featuring images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton along with those of Barack Obama, after which Hilton’s mother lashed out at McCain in response.
- Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band, Dri - San Francisco Weekly
Oberst has the tendency to be heavy-handed with metaphor and with language in general, often reading like a hipper, more literate version of a 16-year-old’s poetry journal. His newest effort, recorded in a rural Mexican locale dubbed Valle MÃÂstico ...
- The buzz on 'Garden of Last Days' (Portsmouth Herald)
It started with the image of a wad of cash on a bedroom bureau. From there "The Garden of Last Days" took Andre Dubus III to Florida strip clubs, 9/11 hijackers, the Koran, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the gym parking lot and a gushing column by...
- Book Review: Hall’s ‘Fall’ imagines, grapples with Frost’s ... - U-Wire.com
Volumes upon volumes of literary criticism and biographies have been written about Robert Frost over the years, but none have tackled his intellect. None, that is, until Brian Hall’s novel “Fall of Frost." The novel attempts to take on Frost in a ...
- Exhibit kicks off Mongolian celebration in Middletown - Middletown Journal
Exhibit kicks off Mongolian celebration in MiddletownMiddletown Journal, OH - 2 hours agoLocal school children have created peace flags made of paper or cloth, which carry themes of peace expressed in pictures, prose and poetry. ...
- Project Backpack: It’s time for Project Backpack reg - Bothell Reporter
Project Backpack: It’s time for Project Backpack registration! Call Helpline House 842-7621 for assistance with back to school needs. Donation drop-off is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon-Fri at Helpline House, 282 Knechtel Way. Barkitecture: Benefitting PAWS ...
- Art unfiltered - Glendale News Press
Art unfilteredGlendale News Press, CA - 2 hours agoThe celebration pays homage to all disciplines including fine art, music, live theater and poetry. It kicks off Friday with a party at Mate’s home and ...
- Dreams for the waking mind - Daily Telegraph
Wallace Stevens was a poet's poet, in the Keatsian sense that some of his most intensely engaged work concerned poetry itself. What is poetry? He saw it not as a substitute for religion but as a way of exploring the mental territory in which most ...
- National Poetry Slam 2008 enriches Madison: The week in review (Isthmus)
At any National Poetry Slam, you're bound to see some stuff that disappoints you, but you'll also see a whole lot of stuff that inspires you. This year's gathering in Madison was no different.
- Venezuela Prioritizes Cultural Revolution - La Prensa Latina
Caracas, Aug 21 (Prensa Latina) Aware of the transforming role of culture in society, the Venezuelan government is carrying out a revolution in that sphere in all states of the country. Unlike previous administrations, during which artistic events ...
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