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- Matshikiza's fans say goodbye - Independent Online
Matshikiza's fans say goodbyeIndependent Online, South Africa - 2 hours ago... son and an inspirational genius, Matshikiza had touched the lives of more people than he could ever have imagined. His life was celebrated with poetry, ...
- How a shy poet was spellbound by the Beast - Guardian Unlimited
It was among the unlikeliest literary friendships of the 20th century. On the one hand, Fernando Pessoa, the painfully shy Portuguese poet, master of pseudonyms and melancholy, whose literary genius went all but unrecognised in his lifetime. On the ...
- Authors grieve over David Foster Wallace's apparent suicide - Contra Costa Times
NEW YORK—The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel ...
- MUSIC REVIEW: Cash 'Folsom' box set features new material (The Tuscaloosa News)
JOHNNY CASH'At Folsom Prison' (box set)(Columbia/Legacy)Talk about crossover: Johnny Cash virtually defined the term with his 1968 album, 'Live at Folsom Prison.' It sent country music to places it hadn't been before, selling right alongside Cream's 'Wheels of Fire' in hip record stores.
- Great sounds by the Delaware - Dailyrecord.com
Great sounds by the DelawareDailyrecord.com, NJ - 1 hour agoOn Sunday, the acoustic tent will be devoted to poetry readings. One fan who appreciates this eclecticism is Lenny Bloch of Schooley's Mountain, ...
- Hail, hail, rock'n'roll - guardian.co.uk
Hail, hail, rock'n'rollguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 31, 2008Subtitled The Poetry of Silence, it shows some 60 paintings from across the Danish artist's career, and opens with a quotation from Rainer Maria Rilke. ...
- Remembering the Day Football Was Silenced - Bleacherreport.com
Do you remember the debate? The World Trade Center was still burning. They were still digging into the rubble at the Pentagon and wondering how the passengers took another plane down in a field in Pennsylvania before it could strike its target ...
- The Poetry of Scissors and Glue - New York Times
The Poetry of Scissors and GlueNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoMax Ernst, of the book-long collages, became his lodestar. Mr. Ashbery’s artistic ambitions stayed high until 1945 when he got to Harvard, where, ...
- Raymond Carver - guardian.co.uk
Raymond Carverguardian.co.uk, UK - 47 minutes agoHis poetry is in the realist tradition of Robert Frost and WS Merwin. Carver is undeniably a writers' writer. He's been cited as an influence by authors as ...
- "AirQ Haiku" Contest Raises Air Quality Awareness (Kansas City InfoZine)
Contest invites entrants to submit haikus that relate to air quality
- Power station poem penned - Fenland Today
Power station poem pennedFenland Today, UK - 13 hours agoHis poem is part of National Poetry Day on Thursday. Mr Farley said: "Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station is awesome: it inspired admiration and fear in roughly ...
- Tim Olyphant joins cast of FX series 'Damages' - Detroit Free Press
ANSWER: Born in Hawaii and brought up in California, 40-year-old Olyphant may be best known for playing lawman Seth Bullock in HBO's western series "Deadwood." He was also the computer-genius villain battling Bruce Willis in "Live Free or Die Hard ...
- White Mountains Roundup - WMI Central
Montana born cowboy singer and popular entertainer Dave Stamey sings for the audience at the White Mountains Roundup Saturday night. The Academy of Western Artists has chosen Stamey as Entertainer of the Year, Male Performer of the Year and ...
- Geoff Oldfather: 9/11 victim's father from Palm City recalls dark day when hope faded (Stuart News)
Edmund Lunder's wife and four other children would cling to hope for days. But as Lunder, a 75-year-old Palm City resident, watched the north tower of the World Trade Centers collapse, he was already starting to accept that his son, Christopher, was probably dead.
- NEW SHOWS Lemon ... (Akron Beacon Journal)
NEW SHOWS Lemon Andersen — 7:30 p.m. Aug. 14, Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre, Idea Center, 1375 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Poetry. Free.
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