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- Activist-performer speaks out - Chicago Tribune
Give props to Gil Scott-Heron for the cutting-edge topicality of his best street poetry and jazz-inflected R&B over the last four decades, and the activist performer will accept the compliment graciously, albeit with reservations. For instance, the ...
- An Insatiable Lover - Rake
An Insatiable LoverRake, MN - 3 hours ago... in poetry-meter and rhyme and assonance and the other kinds of tropes or effects-are really meant to give the ear pleasure in a way that prose does not. ...
- Namibia: Karibib Cluster Marks Children's Day - AllAfrica.com
Namibia: Karibib Cluster Marks Children's DayAllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 hour agoLearners from the participating schools put up performances such as dramas, singing and poetry depicting the everyday plight of the African child, ...
- Turning groans to grins - North Shore Now
Turning groans to grinsNorth Shore Now, WI - 36 minutes agoTwenty-one students wearing artfully decorated T-shirts with poetry on the back and a star on the front, plus additions to suit individual tastes, ...
- Do You Read Your Kid’s Diary, What About Her Facebook Profile? - Wall Street Journal
Angela Pandolfo Roy, who writes the Hausfrau blog on the Offsprung parenting network, asked a question recently that doubtless resonated with many a parent: “Do you read your kid’s journal?” Of course, Ms. Roy, like me, has a child who’s just ...
- Fashion show spotlights need for sanitation - MediaGlobal
Fashion show spotlights need for sanitationMediaGlobal, NY - 45 minutes agoThese days, Nanda writes poetry, and many of her poems deal with the experience of living with daily discrimination. In one poem, she asks, ...
- It’s the Communism, Stupid - Canada Free Press
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to deflect a question about his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers by saying that he “engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old” and that he was now a professor and a ...
- Love and strife under the stars (Belleville News-Democrat)
Outdoor production of ‘Romeo and Juliet' comes close to making the romance work.
- Poetry for the season - Holland Sentinel
I’m in an international poetry club called Poetry For Thought. Every month we have a Challenge for members. Recently we had a challenge that was defined: Write a poem about a place you love that would motivate the reader to want to go there. I ...
- Smears, Scribbles, and Scratches: Twombly at the Tate Modern (The New York Sun)
The magnificent retrospective of veteran American artist Cy Twombly at London's Tate Modern is a reminder that, above all else, painting is smearing and drawing is scribble. In his handling, with its extremes of slightness and scatter, informality can border on the infantile. This show, which is curated by the Tate's director, Sir Nicholas Serota, travels to the Bilbao Guggenheim in the fall, ...
- Alanis Morissette - guardian.co.uk
Alanis Morissetteguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago... careless otherless like autonomy's twin," she declares on Moratorium) but her gawky sincerity makes such laboured sixth-form poetry appear forgivable. ...
- Hungarian GP: Winners and Losers - Planet-F1
Hungarian GP: Winners and LosersPlanet-F1 - 18 hours agoIt was a move from Massa that was aggressive, fair, neat and bordered on poetry. This is how F1 should be and Hamilton was gracious in acknowledging it. ...
- Weekender — Stage calendar for July 25-31 - San Antonio Express News
A Midsummer Night’s Dream San Pedro Springs Park, 800 W. Ashby Place, (210) 733-7258. The Cellar Theater production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy moves outdoors. 7 p.m. Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 10. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, food and ...
- Puerto Rican lit coming out tonight in New York - New York Daily News
Charles Rice-González, one of the authors participating in the anthology "Los Otros Cuerpos." A host of authors and artists will join tonight at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center (CSV) for the New York presentation of "Los Otros Cuerpos," an ...
- First night of residency is epitome of coolsville - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeFirst night of residency is epitome of coolsvilleBoston Globe, United States - 10 hours agoShe treated slow, sparse piano numbers such as "Skeletons," which opened the show, and the freestyle snapshot poetry of "Coolsville," like breathing, ...
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