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- Jesus died for somebody's sins ... (Salon.com)
But not hers. A dazzling, dizzying documentary captures female rock pioneer Patti Smith during her comeback years, surrounded by death and life.
- Today’s movies - Dispatch Online
Today’s moviesDispatch Online, South Africa - 1 hour agoSABC1, 8pm Slam (1998) (16) A marijuana dealer who writes poetry sees his drug connection gunned down and winds up in jail as a murder suspect. ...
- Good Day Baltimore: Ten fun things to do today (Baltimore Examiner)
"The Thriftstore Mystery Paintings" by "Blaster" Al Ackerman - a series in acrylic that decorate the verso of Ackerman's first spoken-word album, "I am Drunk," for Stewart Mostofsky's EHSE label - are now on display for ArtScape. The backstory is that Mostofsky, a longtime Ackerman fan, commissioned the artist to decorate album covers with original acrylic paintings. Oh, and Ackerman has been ...
- Flying on fresh wings - Beeld
With a new poetry anthology and new TV show, poet Lebo Mashile speaks to CARL COLLISON about burning out on TV and where she draws the line ‘You can’t heal a nation with PR,” says Lebo Mashile, ex-member of female poetry collective, Feela ...
- Local poets bare their words on 2nd Fridays - Charlotte Observer
Local poets bare their words on 2nd FridaysCharlotte Observer, NC - 4 hours agoAmerican poet Paul Engle said, "Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ...
- MP's sexy sonnets stun staid colleagues (Ilford Recorder)
ROMANTIC MP Harry Cohen has revealed a secret passion - for penning risqué poetry. The upstanding Labour member for Wanstead has scribbled 200 sonnets in just eight months, even more than William Shakespeare managed in his entire lifetime.
- Writing his own story - Salem News
"Please, no doom and gloom," Christopher Reardon asks. "This isn't another kid in a wheelchair crying about his life." This is a kid in a wheelchair who says he's trying to tell the truth about his life. A kid, a man, really, who just turned 22 and ...
- A Different Nevada (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Location: Elko, in northeast Nevada, about 427 miles from Las Vegas. Directions: From Las Vegas take Interstate 15 north for 21 miles, exiting onto U.S. 93 north, the Great Basin Highway.
- Literary Calendar: June 21-27 - The Gazette (Montreal)
The Gazette (Montreal)Literary Calendar: June 21-27The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 7 hours agoSalvail present a Solovox evening of poetry and music, 8:30 pm at L'Escalier, 552 Ste. Catherine St. E. Call 514-670-5812. ...
- Wednesday, August 6 (The New York Observer)
“I have not come across anybody like her. Anywhere,” said Steven Sebring , director of Patti Smith: Dream of Life , a documentary about the angsty, aging rock goddess. “She travels around the world and does poetry readings, or does performances, or does art; she does lectures on William Blake. … I have become like the uncle to her children. When she lost her brother to a ...
- What’s happening - Pisgah Mountain News
What’s happeningPisgah Mountain News, NC - 39 minutes agoPOETRY READING: At 5 pm at Poppies Gourmet Farmers Market, 1 Market St., Brevard, local poets will read under the tent. Wine and cheese will be served. ...
- Flann O'Brien - guardian.co.uk
Flann O'Brienguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 22, 2008The Third Policeman - Lewis Carroll meets Wittgenstein - remained unpublished for 20 years, and is a black, playful satire on rationalism, selfishness, ...
- Award-winning poet gave voice to plight of Palestinians - Chicago Sun-Times
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Mahmoud Darwish, whose writings gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more ...
- And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it - MySanAntonio
The best writers are those that give you a sense of who they are — as men and women, as fathers and mothers, as warriors and peacemakers. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was that kind of writer. No matter how lean or clinical the prose, his nobility ...
- PC's award winning faculty - Buccaneer (subscription)
PC's award winning facultyBuccaneer (subscription), WA - 10 hours agoDerry plans to use the money to support professional writing during the summer quarter through researching, writing and revising poetry, two essay projects ...
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