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- Chester singer hits high note in song showdown - Chester Evening Leader
Chester singer hits high note in song showdownChester Evening Leader, UK - Oct 10, 2008"I like to think of the lyrics as poetry. I don't sit down and think, I am going to write about any particular subjects." The full article contains 579 ...
- Literary Reviews: Exceptional work emerges here at special events - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Oliver Lake and his jazz band perform at the Jazz Poetry Concert 2008 sponsored by the City of Asylum/Pittsburgh on Saturday at the New Hazlett Theater, North Side. Newspapers aren't prone to hyperbole. That's why you'll seldom see words like ...
- What did I learn at uni? Sorrry, it's all a bit of a blur (Times Online)
Last week, 430,000 freshers made their way to university, an event that The Daily Telegraph would normally have marked with a photograph of an 18-year-old exposing a tantalising stretch of midriff as she ferried crockery on to campus, but this time honoured with an article asking famous people to proffer advice to new undergraduates.
- The Local Cutters - Willamette Week
The Local CuttersWillamette Week, OR - 3 hours agoIt’s like they had been given a couple boxes of refrigerator poetry magnets and were told to make up stand-up routines from the available words. ...
- Peter Oresick's Warhol-O-Rama is a tour-de-force homage, in verse. (Pittsburgh City Paper)
Warhol-O-Rama By Peter Oresick Carnegie Mellon University Press, 102 pp., $16.95  Peter Oresick's Warhol-O-Rama is as much performance as poetry collection, and in the best way possible. The Pittsburgh-based poet's pop-epic suite of 53 verses -- just published on what would have bee... By Bill O'Driscoll.
- Helpless, Soucouyant nominated for Toronto Book Award (CBC)
Barbara Gowdy's novel Helpless, which earlier this year won the Trillium Book Award, and Soucouyant, a debut novel that also was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Literature, are both finalists for the Toronto Book Award.
- Belleville: A corner of Paris that was Edith Piaf's home (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tourists looking for old Paris charm and a taste of "La Vie en Rose" should head to Belleville, a largely overlooked part of the city and the birthplace of Edith Piaf.
- 'Rock On!!': Live your dream! - MSN India Entertainment
'Rock On!!' is the story of four friends who put together the greatest band this country has ever seen, but never makes it. Years later fate conspires to bring them together again and set them on a journey back to where they left off...A soul ...
- Shrinking space for liberalism - Nation
Shabana Azmi and I sat on the same bench in the Rajya Sabha for six years, side by side. Both of us were nominated members and we often talked on the problems facing the country. I found her in the mould of her father, Kaifi Azmi, who fought through ...
- Majida Roumi Sings to a Full House in Tunisia - Al Arab Online
After an absence that lasted for about five years, Lebanese Diva, Majida Roumi, returned to Carthage to meet a longing audience; Roumi sang to a full house as part of the 44th edition of the International Festival of Carthage. Dressed in white, a ...
- Flying Monkey's not your typical arts venue - The Huntsville Times - al.com
Flying Monkey's not your typical arts venueThe Huntsville Times - al.com, AL - 12 hours ago... "Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved" (a show of Rumi and Hafiz music and poetry) and the "Sex Workers' Art Show." OK, it's not all family entertainment. ...
- Hobnobbing In Helendale - Victorville Daily Press
Hobnobbing In HelendaleVictorville Daily Press, CA - 8 hours ago... non-fiction, biographies, children’s books, books on tape and more. The least read seem to be Westerns, the old classics, self-help and poetry. ...
- Local poet teams up with photographer to produce beautiful book - Villages Daily Sun
THE VILLAGES  When Roger Cooper was in the fourth grade, his cure for boredom was writing poetry. When his teacher noticed him becoming bored in class, she would tell him to write a poem about whatever he wanted. “This was the way my fourth ...
- Franz West At - HULIQ (press release)
Franz West AtHULIQ (press release), NC - 29 minutes ago... to sit down and reflect on the artist's work, read newspapers and magazines, or express your thoughts using word magnets to create poetry or prose. ...
- Kenya: Barack Obama And the Graveyard of Hope - AllAfrica.com
Kenya: Barack Obama And the Graveyard of HopeAllAfrica.com, Washington - Aug 15, 2008We do not even remark on the haunting wastage of all this shining accomplishment - Micere Mugo sings her lyrical poetry for Americans, and we do not even ...
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