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- Cleburne rapper Scott Johnson is trying to send an uplifting message - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Cleburne rapper Scott Johnson is trying to send an uplifting messageFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 19 minutes ago"My mother wrote poetry, and growing up in West Virginia, everyone’s got problems," he says. "It’s always down, and there’s always an air of depression. ...
- Quartermaine's Terms: a potent blend of comedy and pain - Daily Telegraph
There is a scene in Simon Gray's fine play, first seen in 1981, in which the eponymous St John Quartermaine invites a succession of his colleagues at a Cambridge English language school to join him for a night at the theatre, only to be turned down ...
- Goethe establishment slams lawyer's romance claims - Feature (EARTHtimes.org)
Berlin - Allegations of a secret love affair between a dowager duchess and Germany's greatest writer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, have been hotly rejected this week by German literary scholars. The claims were advanced in a 2003 book by literary sleuth E...
- Charleston Young Author winners head to state conference at ... - Journal Gazette and Times-Courier
Charleston Young Author winners head to state conference at ...Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, IL - 1 hour ago... from non-fiction up to a “mini-novel,” along with poetry and short stories. The contest is an Illinois State Board of Education initiative, ...
- 'REmix' looks at Hmong art and literature through generations - Minnpost.com
REmix is an exhibit on display this month at the Homewood Studios gallery. The exhibit attempts to not only forge connections among the Hmong community in the Twin Cities-one of the largest Hmong communities in the country-and the more established ...
- Books help teens understand Army, war - News-Democrat
For today's teens, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have stretched on for half their lives or more. Most second-graders can't remember a time when there wasn't an Iraq war. In many other parts of the country, countless young people get firsthand ...
- She threw some punches – now she can kick back - Tacoma News Tribune
Not all of Pat Lantz’s six elections to the Legislature were close. It only seemed that way. It only seemed that each time she faced voters in the 26th District, the margin was in the hundreds. And because so much was at stake, Lantz’s campaigns ...
- Theater review: Kapil's 'Love Person' (San Francisco Chronicle)
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Love Person: Comedy. By Aditi Brennan Kapil. Directed by Gia Forakis. (Through May 18. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. Two hours. Tickets: $20-$35. Call (415) 388-5208 or go to www.marintheatre.org.) "Maybe we don't...
- Casa de las Americas will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary - Cuba Headlines
Casa de las Americas will soon celebrate its 50th anniversaryCuba Headlines, Cuba - 42 minutes agoIn 1962, he was a member of the jury of the Casa de las Americas Literature Prize in the poetry category and from 1965 on, he has directed the institution´ ...
- Underground Report: K'naan and J. Rawls & Middle Child - HipHopDX
Underground Report: K'naan and J. Rawls & Middle ChildHipHopDX, CA - 1 hour agoIf rap is a form of modern-day poetry and rappers are the servants of the craft then K’naan is crowned King. Pounding irreplaceable beats on the drum ...
- Interview: War Child Emmanuel Jal - Village Voice
Village VoiceInterview: War Child Emmanuel JalVillage Voice, NY - 19 minutes agoThere’s poetry. There’s all kind of different, different sound. And sound vary from different village, from different place. But there’s also the music that ...
- Nigeria: Nobel Prize Politics - Chinua Achebe, a Shameful Omission - Annie Gagiano (AllAfrica.com)
Annie Gagiano is a Professor of English at Stellen bosch University, South Africa.
- Shuffling Through Memories: BS Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' - New York Sun
Shuffling Through Memories: BS Johnson's 'The Unfortunates'New York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoIn 1961, while shopping his first book to agents, Johnson compared it favorably to "Ulysses," and declared himself in the tradition of "Petronius, Apuleius, ...
- A list of exhibits currently on display at area galleries May 1-7 (The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star)
A list of exhibits currently on display at area galleries May 1-7
- Hammershøi's grey eminence (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Maev Kennedy on the trail of the enigmatic Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi at the Royal Academy
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