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- Tripping To and Fro, Happily Skewering Poetry (New York Times)
In a new collection of poems, Billy Collins reiterates many of his usual themes with a healthy dose of his usual panache and performs one of his best-enjoyed feats: skewering poetry.
- Hendrix's burnt guitar leads rock auction in London (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The first guitar that rock legend Jimi Hendrix burned on stage, the only remaining fingerprints of Elvis Presley and the first contract signed by The Beatles all go on sale Thursday in a major auction of music memorabilia.
- Festival "Quartiers d'Eté" - Radio France Internationale
Festival "Quartiers d'Eté"Radio France Internationale, France - 4 hours agoNone of the daily grime. It gives the music a timeless quality, no?†Melingo dramatises his music with a kind of vagabond poetry. He mimes snorting grains ...
- Aug 10 - Aug 16 (146) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
"This is the nirvana of what we've been talking about for years," said MIT's Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the work in the July 31 issue of Science. "Solar power has always been a ...
- Five Questions: Pasha Malla - Walrus Magazine
Walrus MagazineFive Questions: Pasha MallaWalrus Magazine, Canada - Aug 12, 2008I wrote them, obviously, trying to be funny, but other people finding my stuff funny—or not—is up to them. That’s the thing about humour: it’s completely ...
- Indian River County community connection: July 27 - TCPalm
Indian River County community connection: July 27TCPalm, FL - 24 minutes agoCreative Writing, Poetry: Discussion, critiques, encourages budding writers. Indian River County Main Library, 1600 21st St., Vero Beach, 6 pm Adults. ...
- Agenda: July 26 - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Agenda: July 26Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 3 minutes agoTonight’s Barnes & Noble poetry night features open mic, plus Austin poet Frank Pool reading his work and poetry by the late Czeslaw Milosz. ...
- Mill's festival exhibition reveals special landscape - Ripon Today
Mill's festival exhibition reveals special landscapeRipon Today, UK - 5 hours agoCelebrating the mill’s 200th birthday, the exhibition weaves together the natural and industrial landscape of our mill towns and features paintings by Peter ...
- Gaia Online Gives Teens the Chance to Take Home "Olympic Gold" - Earthtimes
SAN JOSE, Calif. - (Business Wire) For those of us who have dreamt of Olympic glory, but prefer thumb wrestling and hot dog eating to swimming and hurdles, Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 5 million teens, today announced it will ...
- Premier League: Controversial penalty secures Wigan victory over Manchester City (Guardian Unlimited)
An controversial penalty secures Wigan 2-1 win over Manchester City
- THIS ABOVE ALL - Chandigarh Tribune
Chandigarh TribuneTHIS ABOVE ALLChandigarh Tribune, India - 14 minutes agoHe was born in Nowshera in 1931 and studied Persian and Urdu in Peshawar University. He took to composing Urdu poetry early in life. ...
- Paradise found - Adelaide Independent Weekly
Paradise foundAdelaide Independent Weekly, Australia - 6 hours agoThe show includes excerpts from the book, but also music, poetry and visual art in collaboration with several Indonesian artists. ...
- The Poet's Perspective - Cape Cod Today
H ello and welcome to my new Blog, The Poet's Perspective . In coming months I will be sharing poems, photos and commentary, inspired by this great peninsula. I will do my best to keep it exciting and inspiring, and your input is appreciated. I hope ...
- The Fugs: proto-punk and the 60s sound that echoes today - Socialistworker.co.uk
The Fugs: proto-punk and the 60s sound that echoes todaySocialistworker.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoEd is still writing and performing his poetry. And his political anger remains as sharp as ever, “Even from a young age I was something you’re not meant to ...
- 'It's as if you're circling like an eagle' - Guardian Unlimited
Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Over a pre-flight coffee, Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer is reflecting on his last London concert with his Budapest Festival Orchestra. "We are not a normal ...
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