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- State’s outspoken poet laureate to read in SLO today (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
While poetry ought to make sense, writers have incentive to make their work undecipherable, said California’s poet laureate. “The more your poetry offers an opportunity for professors to teach and explain, the bigger your reputation,” said Al Young, who was appointed the state’s poetry ambassador in 2005. “If you write for people directly, they don’t have much use for you.” For a man who has a ...
- Central library celebrates 70 years - Bolton News
Central library celebrates 70 yearsBolton News, UK - 9 hours agoThen on July 24 it will host an X-Factor-style Poetry Slam competition where members of the audience judge poet's performances. ...
- BCC debate team - Fall River Spirit
BCC debate teamFall River Spirit, MA - 6 hours agoHe said the skills they learn help prepare them for the workforce and how to interact daily with other people in their lives. ...
- Why Obama wept for his father - Daily Nation
Daily NationWhy Obama wept for his fatherDaily Nation, Kenya - 5 hours agoObama listened spellbound, much as his ancestors had when they gathered around the fire to listen to the wise elders or to itinerant harpist-poets as they ...
- "It's the Economy Stupid! or The Turning Point," Street Theater in ... - NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze"It's the Economy Stupid! or The Turning Point," Street Theater in ...NewsBlaze, CA - 23 minutes agoShe wrote and performed her own outdoor theater pieces against the Vietnam War and also curated and performed many poetry programs for the Philadelphia ...
- REVIEW | House of Cards: Terry Kinney's "Diminished Capacity" (indieWIRE)
One could surmise the mediocrity of " Diminished Capacity " from reading the synopsis alone: Cooper ( Matthew Broderick ), a small-town-boy-made-good in the big city but lately suffering from the lasting effects of a serious concussion, heads back home to visit his fading Uncle Rollie ( Alan Alda ). As Cooper's mother explains of the latter's condition in a letter, "Dr. Hoyt calls it 'diminished ...
- Poems and poets for Poetry Month - amNewYork
Poems and poets for Poetry MonthamNewYork, New York - 26 minutes agoPerhaps the best-known Japanese poet, Basho's dramatic haikus make the reader a participant in the poem. "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant --/ Success ...
- UC Santa Cruz creating 'Dead Central' room to house new Grateful Dead collection (San Jose Mercury News)
The Grateful Dead's long strange trip through American popular culture is ending in a library at the University of California at Santa Cruz, preserved for future generations of study by scholars and stoners.
- Poetry festival welcomes public to Saturday event - The Huntsville Times - al.com
Poetry festival welcomes public to Saturday eventThe Huntsville Times - al.com, AL - 5 minutes agoAttendance is free, but donations are appreciated. Have you noticed those kids' drawings splattered across billboards around Huntsville? ...
- Italian professor combines spirit and mind - The Santa Clara
Italian professor combines spirit and mindThe Santa Clara, USA - 2 hours agoRiviello writes poetry that expresses her passion for learning and reflects her surroundings, spirituality and her interactions with students. ...
- US08: I have heard the future of political poetry ... (Crikey)
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- Recalling that fateful night at Ford's Theatre - Boston Globe
Recalling that fateful night at Ford's TheatreBoston Globe, United States - 1 hour agoOne of Sawyer's first tasks was "to learn to work with John's poetry, which is quite full of reference and music and richness. I wanted to bring it across ...
- The David Merian interview - Spinal Column Online
Spinal Column OnlineThe David Merian interviewSpinal Column Online, MI - 1 hour agoI also hope to do screen writing, and keep working on screenplays and poetry, fiction and nonfiction. So, hopefully I will continue with that, and graduate ...
- "Poetics of Nationalism: Arab & American Women's Poetry of the War ... - BU Today
"Poetics of Nationalism: Arab & American Women's Poetry of the War ...BU Today, MA - 1 hour agoPoet and translator Wafaa Muhammed is currently part of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute, a place of intense intellectual engagement and great energy where ...
- Wu Han Plays Tchaikovsky, Month by Month - NPR News
APM, June 30, 2008 - You've got to love Wu Han. I've been lucky to work with her on several projects, so I've seen her in many roles: solo pianist, chamber musician, teacher, lecturer, administrator, producer, mother. In every situation, in every ...
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