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- We talk with acclaimed poet Mark Doty in advance of his Pittsburgh reading. (Pittsburgh City Paper)
"What I really want to do is make a poem that is as involved as it can be in how it feels to live." By Paul Ruggiero.
- Move Over, George and Martha - 'Stitching''s Stu and Abby Get U.S. Premiere (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
British playwright Anthony Neilson's Stitching - a play about relationship games that would make Edward Albee's vicious characters sit up and take notice - will open June 25 in its U.S. premiere. Previews for the Off-Broadway production directed by Timothy Haskell began June 17.
- NAC Corner: Despite hectic schedule, ‘Marathon’ a triumph of honor - Norwich Bulletin
NAC Corner: Despite hectic schedule, ‘Marathon’ a triumph of honorNorwich Bulletin, CT - 52 minutes agoThe book interweaves both Harteis’ prose and Meredith’s poetry, giving them each a voice throughout the story, even though Meredith’s condition would have ...
- Marin County's Kay Ryan named poet laureate - KSWT-TV
Marin County's Kay Ryan named poet laureateKSWT-TV, AZ - Jul 17, 2008The 62-year-old Fairfax resident has won a number of awards for her writing, including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and four Pushcart Prizes. ...
- On the Town - New York Observer
There’s a moment in the boring, brain-dead new M. Night Shyamalan film The Happening when Mark Wahlberg turns to the camera, trying to suppress a grin, and asks, “Can this really be happening?” I ask the same question every week, but it just ...
- Kay Ryan To Be Named Poet Laureate - New York Sun
Kay Ryan will be named the nation's next poet laureate today by the librarian of Congress, James Billington, the New York Times reported tonight. A Californian, Ms. Ryan, 62, is known for her short, playful poems, for which she has won the 2004 Ruth ...
- More Rumors - allhiphop.com
All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear. Read on. Is Buck talking through a new song called “I’m Not OK?” There are no references to G-Unit or 50 ...
- Africa Alive Festival aims to help orphans with AIDS - Wisconsin State Journal
Capital Brewery in Middleton will host an important fundraiser for South African AIDS orphans on Saturday, Aug. 2. The 3rd annual Africa Alive Festival, sponsored by Kidlinks World Inc., will feature a variety of entertainment for the entire family ...
- Up close and personal with the Lincolns (Chicago Sun-Times)
What did she ever see in him? What could he possibly see in her? Everyone wants to know what really goes on in someone else's marriage, and no one can.
- Che's transformation, in his first wife's words - Detroit Free Press
Che's transformation, in his first wife's wordsDetroit Free Press, United States - 1 hour agoBut the pair's friendship deepened as they discussed books on philosophy, politics and poetry. The events in Guatemala, and the people Guevara met there, ...
- Halifax, NS | Sun, August 3rd, 2008 - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Halifax, NS | Sun, August 3rd, 2008TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 20 minutes agoThe facilitator is Jeff Davis, (Taos Summer Writers Conference; Writers Lab in Skyros, Greece; Block Island Poetry Project), author of The Journey from the ...
- Summer's bliss: Our picks for reading that will carry you away - Cleveland Plain Dealer
As summer reaches its peak, our pores open and -- if we're lucky -- our days become more languid, our minds and bodies moving a bit more adventurously in the humid air. Our choices of perch also expand -- the porch swing, the lawn chair, the Erie ...
- McCartney, Daltry, Bennett and Brooks join Joel in Shea Stadium ... - Buffalo News
Billy Joel bade a stirring farewell to Shea Stadium on Friday during an electrifying, sold-out final show at the same ballpark where the Beatles famously ushered in a new era in rock 'n' roll four decades ago. He was joined by an all-star lineup of ...
- The Wild Places - Monsters and Critics
Robert Macfarlane has a new book called The Wild Places . It is a follow up to his earlier work, Mountains of the Mind, which is actually quite a good book. The NYT praised The Wild Places, calling it: “anything but twee. It is a formidable ...
- Street Scene, Young Vic, London (Independent)
Kurt Weill called Street Scene "a Broadway opera", but there aren't too many operas with a wild jitterbug that segues into a slutty blues or a children's chorus who chant, "My father's name is Rockefeller./He shovels diamonds in the cellar." Into his 1947 musical version of Elmer Rice's 1929 play, Weill emptied a cornucopia of influences – Wagner, Puccini, folk song, jazz, operetta, and his ...
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