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- Meet the authors (The Columbus Dispatch)
Making appearances this week in central Ohio:
- A Long, Strange Trip (New York Times)
A British classics professor traces the lengthy shadow Homer?s ?Odyssey? casts across Western culture.
- Slammin' Two Twin Cities teams have a shot at glory at the ... - Pioneer Press
Slammin' Two Twin Cities teams have a shot at glory at the ...Pioneer Press, MN - 25 minutes agoBy Trisha Collopy For spoken-word poets, the National Poetry Slam is the big enchilada — their moment in the spotlight, their shot at glory, an event that's ...
- Sean Connery: The story of a brilliant but deeply flawed man (Daily Mail)
Word is that Sean Connery's upcoming autobiography is a heavily sanitised account of his tempestuous life. Starting today, a major Mail series reveals the real story of this brilliant but deeply flawed man.
- Chrissie Hynde you are intelligent, tell it like it is and still kick ... - Rolling Stone
Corruption in rock & roll, pop music: it goes back to the late fifties, early sixities. However, melody and rhythm was important, even though the poetry, like today, was lousy–funny, in some cases. Iggy Pop opened for the Pretenders in Jan. ‘87 ...
- Strange land of beauty is where Lemon Sponge Cake finds itself - Denver Post
Strange land of beauty is where Lemon Sponge Cake finds itselfDenver Post, CO - 12 hours ago"I wanted something soft, a bit funny and beautiful to watch." Unlike many pieces he has crafted for his 9-year-old Boulder company, "A Strange Land" finds ...
- The places our hearts call home - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The places our hearts call homeMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 6 hours agoMinnesota writers Bill Holm and Freya Manfred will lead an evening of poetry, music and conversation about sense of place. By KIM ODE, Star Tribune What: ...Arts & Entertainment • Aug. 21 Stillwater Courierall 3 news articles
- Lasting Yankee Stadium Memory #14 - Baseball Toaster
Lasting Yankee Stadium Memory #14Baseball Toaster, CA - 23 minutes agoAt times, he'll approach me with some handwritten poetry he's composed, which is invariably literate, funny, and sometimes biting. ...
- Free One: A serious Somali MC - Twin Cities Planet
Free One: A serious Somali MCTwin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 22 minutes agoIt was around this time, Free One says, that he began writing poetry. Having had a sense of social responsibility instilled in him by his mother, ...
- Sports stars should prove they are not - The Island (subscription)
Sports stars should prove they are notThe Island (subscription), Sri Lanka - 2 hours agoThe Times of London gave British poet Fanny Walker a whole page last week in which she made an impassioned plea that performance poetry be included in the ...
- Anvil to reissue first book - The Bookseller (subscription)
Anvil to reissue first bookThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 13 hours agoIndependent poetry publisher Anvil Press will be celebrating its 40th anniversary this autumn with a specially commissioned re-release of the first title it ...
- Gary writers publish their first books - Post-Tribune
GARY -- Two local writers recently have had their works published for the first time. LaKiya Lindsey is sharing her thoughts on life in the poetry volume "Through the Eyes of Boo Kitty (My Soul in Writing)." Lindsey, who was given the nickname Boo ...
- Jerry Adler - Newsweek
From the Editors (2) My Turn: 'I'm Sorry' Shouldn't Be the Hardest Words Poetry: Mary Jo Bang's Dark, Inspirational 'Elegy' Mourning the death of a loved one is about as universal a human emotion as exists, and it's not even confined to humans; there ...
- Why do erudite people boast of blissful ignorance of maths? - Irish Times
Why do erudite people boast of blissful ignorance of maths?Irish Times, Ireland - 2 hours agoLike the Irish language and romantic poetry, maths is, surely, worth studying for its own sake. The pool from which media fulminators are drawn is ...
- Michael Coren: G.K. Chesterton, an icon to too few - Nationalpost.com
The New Yorker magazine recently got into all sorts of trouble for its satirical front cover cartoon depicting Barack Obama as an orthodox Muslim and his wife Michelle as a terrorist. Some people, it seems, simply can't take a joke. G.K. Chesterton ...
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