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- Ty: 'Hip-hop has no culture' (Independent)
"I hate the word alternative," says Ty. "I hate the word off-key, I hate the word jazzy and I hate the word laid-back. I'm not a laid-back person." That's for certain. A frown adds a touch of finality to his mini-rant. Ty has never been a fan of anything that suggests his unconventional existence in British hip-hop should paint him with the "alt" prefix. "I'm probably more disobedient with ...
- Poetry Column: Discovering poetry can be a moving experience - Evening Sun
Most of us have had the experience of moving to a new place. It can be both an exhilarating and humbling experience. It is exhilarating for those who are highly organized, make sense of the larger picture, and can fill in details at leisure. They get ...
- PALMER'S ALMANAC: Memorial Day's roots in Civil War (The Tuscaloosa News)
Memorial Day is a day to reflect and remember the women and men who died while serving their country. The day has its roots in those early post-Civil War days when a traumatized America was coming to grips with the horrors of a war that left the Southern landscape ravaged and pimpled with thousands of fresh graves.
- MP3: Sweet Trip Covers James Joyce - Wired News
MP3: Sweet Trip Covers James JoyceWired News - 6 hours agoJames Joyce wished that someone would eventually make music out of his Chamber Music (.txt) collection of poetry. Over one hundred years after they were ...
- Pretty pictures, poetry, prose perfect for lazy phase - Columbus Dispatch
Columbus DispatchPretty pictures, poetry, prose perfect for lazy phaseColumbus Dispatch, OH - 25 minutes ago... all ages): Still funny after 44 years: Shel Silverstein's first book of children's poetry has been reissued in all its original weirdness and appeal. ...
- Poet Kay Ryan is named poet laureate - Sioux City Journal
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry ...
- Home Front: Pendleton's Schuening now is a pro, but who's next? - EastOregonian.info (subscription)
Home Front: Pendleton's Schuening now is a pro, but who's next?EastOregonian.info (subscription), OR - May 4, 2008Whether it's painting or wrestling, whether it's poetry or cross country, you can still be a cheerleader. "Home Front" by Terry Murry is published every ...
- Authors Rebecca Barry, Beth Ann Fennelly - Knox College
Authors Rebecca Barry, Beth Ann FennellyKnox College, IL - 2 hours agoFennelly has received a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Illinois Arts Council Grant and the Diane ...
- Meeting on Persian literature held in Istanbul - IranMania News
LONDON, June 23 (IranMania) - The second meeting on Persian literature was held in Istanbul, MNA reported. Several Iranian scholars including Hassan Hassanzadeh, as well as professors and students of Persian literature from the Istanbul University ...
- Songs strike a chord for Detroit teams - Detroit News
Something about the playoffs awakens muses that probably should be left dozing. People send me Pistons poems and Red Wings ballads and, back in 2006, a Homeric ode to the Detroit Tigers' World Series team that ran 6 1/2 pages. They tend to be full of ...
- The Wright Stuff - Seattle University
Seattle UniversityThe Wright StuffSeattle University, WA - 49 minutes ago(Maps won the 2007 Independent Book Publishers Award for Poetry.) Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, Wright's previous book, received the Blue Lynx Prize and ...
- News Briefs (The North Bay Nugget)
Successful car wash for Habitat for Humanity The local chapter of Habitat for Humanity raised more than $750 during its car wash Saturday at MacEwen service station on Algonquin Avenue. Organizers said in a media release that drivers lined up to support the cause. We were [...]
- Writings by Some of Today's Top Western Authors to be Published in an Anthology by Western Writers of America and La ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
A collection of some of the best writing being created by today's Western authors will be published as a joint effort by the Western Writers of America and La Frontera Publishing, both parties announced.
- Karadzic: One of world's most wanted men - Turkish Daily News
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested on Monday, saw himself as a defender of Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war but ended up a fugitive wanted on genocide charges. His 11 years at large had long been a stumbling block to ...
- The Art of Survival - Time
Peter Steinhauer for TIME Htein Lin's prison experience is omnipresent in his paintings, which have been featured in recent exhibitions in both Hong Kong and London, where he now lives with his wife, a former British ambassador to Burma. His work ...
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