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- 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 Â 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.
- Author writes Northern tales - Northern News Services (subscription)
Northern News Services (subscription)Author writes Northern talesNorthern News Services (subscription), Canada - 17 minutes agoAn accomplished writer of books for both children and adults, fiction and poetry, Van Camp has participated in the festival since its inception and is ...
- Leonard Cohen: Out of the monastery and back on the road (Independent)
On Tuesday a spry 73-year-old man in a double-breasted suit and fedora will step on to the stage at the Manchester Opera House. For those of us in Britain who love his music, this moment will be both an epiphany and a relief. It is 15 years since Leonard Cohen last toured – after four nights in Manchester, he'll play several more dates in the UK this summer, including the O2 Arena and the ...
- A drive to save Purdy house - Waterloo Record
A drive to save Purdy houseWaterloo Record, Canada - 2 hours agoIt is where he wrote much of his acclaimed poetry. The festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary with such writers as Alistair MacLeod, Jane Urquhart and ...Purdy's lakeside home needs to be saved Belleville Intelligencerall 2 news articles
- BOOKS-US: Blogging Brobdingnagian Blowback - Inter Press Service (subscription)
BOOKS-US: Blogging Brobdingnagian BlowbackInter Press Service (subscription), Italy - 4 hours agoEnglehardt's work -- and those he selects from the blog -- read like poetry. In the rapid-fire blogger world, he breaks the mold by sticking to the old ...
- Mother of the Revolution - Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin
Mother of the RevolutionOld Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin, MA - 18 hours agoWhen war came, Mercy turned her pen from writing nature poetry to anti-British pamphlets, the Internet of the day. She wrote The Adulateur, a poem about the ...
- Maya Angelou triumphs - Cincinnati Enquirer
Maya Angelou triumphsCincinnati Enquirer, OH - 4 hours agoThen, she stopped, hummed for a second and recited a stanza from a poem. She alternated between the same chorus and short poems for the first 15 minutes of ...
- Help Support SF Webzine "Strange Horizons" - io9
io9Help Support SF Webzine "Strange Horizons"io9, CA - 2 hours agoStrange Horizons publishes short fiction, poetry, reviews and articles of interest to the speculative fiction community each week on Monday. ...
- The Cost of Doing Business with History - OpEdNews
The Cost of Doing Business with HistoryOpEdNews, PA - 17 hours agoSay you let him hammer that kitten to death, then all around him you see countless cages filled with kittens, and he plucks out another one and asks the ...
- Oahu Anti-Tobacco Youth Activist Summit Draws Youth From Across ... - Honolulu Advertiser
Oahu Anti-Tobacco Youth Activist Summit Draws Youth From Across ...Honolulu Advertiser, HI - 12 hours ago... video production, art, music, dance, poetry and acting. "Expression sessions are an awesome way to learn counter marketing techniques so that teen's can ...Youths learn to be anti-tobacco activists Maui Newsall 2 news articles
- Devils Tower features 2008 Cultural Series - Gillette News Record
Devils Tower features 2008 Cultural SeriesGillette News Record, WY - Jul 13, 2008Boycott is known for his cowboy poetry and music and has been on stage with the likes of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Waddie Mitchell and Riders in the Sky. ...
- Ross mom whose son has Asperger's writes book of poems - Marin Independent Journal
Rebecca Foust's son, now 20, has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism sometimes known as 'idiot savant disorder' or 'little professor syndrome.' Like the autistic character Dustin Hoffman plays in the movie "Rain Man," Rebecca ...
- Army Wives: Unchartered Territory - TV Squad
Army Wives: Unchartered TerritoryTV Squad, CA - 1 hour agoGhetti reading poetry by James Dickey. In addition to poetry, he's best known for writing the novel that became the movie Deliverance. ...
- Nigeria: Sefi Atta's Swallow Takes Another Pudding (AllAfrica.com)
Sefi Atta, the London-based Nigerian writer who has twice won the BBC's African Performance Competition for plays, has come up with a new novel Swallow, and the paperback edition of the book which has been enjoying scintillating reviews globally can be obtained in Nigeria, courtesy of Kachifo Limited, the publishers of Farafina Magazine and Farafina books.
- Lincoln comes to life for young readers - Medford Mail Tribune
"LINCOLN SHOT," screams the headline! "Condition Considered Hopeless. Will Not Live Through the Night." So begins a gripping read for middle-graders ahead of the February bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a big event in publishing for grown ...
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