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- CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEW: 'America At War' offers poems inspired by each war involving the U.S. (Asheville Citizen-Times)
In the prologue of "America at War," there is a quote from Carl Sandburg: "Some day they'll give a war and nobody will come." The wish seems vague as memory, yet replete with the real longing of innumerable victims of war.
- First lady of scandal - Brisbane Times
SOMETIMES a confluence of celebrity circumstance reaches such a critical mass of PR fluff that the merest spark might cause it to flare into a raging blaze of publicity. Such was the case when it was first revealed, late last year, that supermodel ...
- Sweet memories of San Miguel (Ventura County Star)
Betsy Lester Roberti saw ghosts of love and a lost life on a recent afternoon at San Miguel Island. Both had been snatched away — suddenly, darkly — long ago. She held the ruins of her old home in her hands on this sunny midsummer's day. Ghosts, good and bad, have a way of hanging around like a permanent curtain, like the eternal sea. They come back whenever she returns to San Miguel. ...
- Gary woman's life built around performing arts - Gary Post Tribune
Gary woman's life built around performing artsGary Post Tribune, IN - 20 minutes agoI first met Gwen Calmese-Wright at a poetry slam seven or eight years ago. We shared similar interests and quickly became friends. ...
- A sad, true story that's as strong as its subject - Boston Globe
A sad, true story that's as strong as its subjectBoston Globe, United States - 6 minutes agoFuller knows this rough world intimately and renders it with a kind of spare prose-poetry. Describing an oil rig, she writes: "It's a place of repetitive, ...
- Media & Marketing Edition - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalMedia & Marketing EditionWall Street Journal - 5 hours agoMr. Taylor's prose rarely dips into the tone poetry of so much contemporary literary fiction. It is crisp and transparent. Still, one could do with a little ...
- Surrey ‘Maria’ now among final four contestants - Peace Arch News
Surrey ‘Maria’ now among final four contestantsPeace Arch News, Canada - 1 hour ago1000 words) or poetry (max. 36 lines) for the 34th annual Cecilia Lamont Writing Contest. Deadline to submit entries is Oct. 31. First prize is $200 and an ...
- After the Last sky - Saudi Gazette
MAHMOUD Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, will get the equivalent of a state funeral on Tuesday -- an honor previously accorded only to PLO leader Yasser Arafat, after his death on Saturday ...
- Seeing history-laden Hyderabad through many eyes (New Kerala)
Edited by former "ad-woman" Syeda Imam, "The Untold Charminar: Writings on Hyderabad" is an anthology on a city that was once ruled by the world's richest man - the Nizam. And its essays sure shine like the twinkling jewels in his treasury.
- Arles: Gregoire Alexandre - wallpaper.com
wallpaper.comArles: Gregoire Alexandrewallpaper.com, UK - 5 hours agoChristian Lacroix describes Gregoire Alexandre’s photography as being like ‘contemporary poetry’. Equal parts installation artist, illusionist, set designer ...
- The Fun Of Judging Others: Madrid - Torontoist
TorontoistThe Fun Of Judging Others: MadridTorontoist, Canada - 54 minutes agoBut what must make it an amazing place to live is its commitment to making life…well, livable for its citizens. Granted, Toronto doesn’t have constant, ...
- Artie Traum: Greenwich Village folk star - The Independent
He shared a manager with Bob Dylan, toured with the Band, composed the film score for a Brian de Palma movie and played on 35 albums, but Artie Traum is probably most warmly celebrated as a supreme acoustic guitar stylist. One of the first Americans ...
- Lonely life as commoner for former king - Gulf Times
In this file photo former king Gyanendra greeting visitors in the Nepalese style on the auspicious occasion of his 60th birthday at Narayanhity Royal Palace in Kathmandu KATHMANDU: With few friends coming to visit and his son and one-time heir now ...
- Madison National Poetry Slam team ready for the spotlight (Isthmus)
Gathering in a muggy UW Red Gym last Tuesday night, the five spoken word performers representing Madison in the National Poetry Slam were intent on their final preparations for the big show this week. At this point, it's almost all repetition. The Madison team has been meeting for months, starting shortly after city finals competition back in May. Since that time, they've been collectively ...
- Sara Bareilles (MuchMusic.com)
So I'm supposed to tell you about myself and we've tried to write something fancy, and I'm just not that fancy, so here I go. The non-fancy me. I've been writing songs for as long as I can remember.
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