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- The man who got Scotland to sing together - Times Online
Times OnlineThe man who got Scotland to sing togetherTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoHe envisaged T in the Park as a cross between Glastonbury and Reading — fewer poetry readings and not quite as much rock music. But after just one year the ...
- Powerful 'W;t' lays out questions of life, death - Chicago Tribune
Life doles out endless humiliations, but nothing compares to the special indignities of the hospital stay. Of all the careful observations in Margaret Edson's "W;t" at the Gift Theatre, this one might be the most unsettling. The bigger issue here is ...
- Featured Photo: "Between the lines" (The Daily Texan)
Poet and UT creative writing MFA student S.E. Smith reads from her latest body of work, "Eulogies for the Living," at RIOT Ink's Summer Poetry Series at Austin Java Thursday evening.
- Labour’s attacks on benefits claimants will make life harder for ... - Socialistworker.co.uk
Labour’s attacks on benefits claimants will make life harder for ...Socialistworker.co.uk, UK - 7 hours agoI resent the idea that I am “workshy” – I write poetry, study and debate with friends and fellow socialists. I also care for my disabled wife and educate my ...
- Walter Johnson published Excelsior, Wayzata papers - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Walter Johnson, a former city newspaper reporter, took the plunge to live his dream, moving on to own, edit and report for his own newspaper. Johnson, who was publisher of the former Maverick of Excelsior and the former Wayzata Weekly News, died of ...
- Seven-Book Release Propels Author to National Level - 24-7PressRelease.com (press release)
Seven-Book Release Propels Author to National Level24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - 29 minutes agoAlong with the seven books, an audio CD, Poetic Empowerment, featuring poetry that ministers through spoken word, is set for release as well. ...
- Abrams delivers poetry as a high art of human expression (Cornell News Service)
A poem is "one of the most nuanced of the arts in expressing what is human," said Cornell Professor Emeritus M.H. (Mike) Abrams, who shared some of his deep understanding and love of poetry in a public lecture, "On Reading Poems Aloud," July 16, in Alice Statler Auditorium.
- Archives > News > Regional (Queens Courier)
Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. wants better service along the W line, which once again was ranked the worst in the city by the Straphangers Campaign.
- Poetry isn't in the cards - Denver Post
Poetry isn't in the cardsDenver Post, CO - 1 hour agoEveryone from George Bernard Shaw to Red Smith has taken a swing at distilling the romantic essence of the game into words. Most have missed. ...
- The art of Al Purdy - Ottawa Citizen
The art of Al PurdyOttawa Citizen, Canada - 37 minutes agoHis poem At the Quinte Hotel showed readers the beauty in a bar fight and left them feeling sad, not from the violence, but because poetry won't buy "beers ...
- World Leaders Who Liked to Paint (Newsweek)
What happens when world leaders get creative. Hint: it isn't always pretty.
- Winehouse lyrics studied at Cambridge - MSN UK News
LONDON (Reuters) - They might not be Shakespeare or Wordsworth but lyrics by soul singer Amy Winehouse have been included in a Cambridge University literature exam for the first time. Final year English students were asked to compare a song by the ...
- One choreographer stands out in Chelonia Dance's Chicago debut - Chicago Sun-Times
One choreographer stands out in Chelonia Dance's Chicago debutChicago Sun-Times, United States - 13 hours agoNamed after a legendary artists' cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia, that was the site of the pre-Revolutionary equivalent of poetry slams (a cafe that has made ...
- Casa del Mar elegant -- and pricey -- in Santa Monica (Los Angeles Times)
- Poetry review: 'Work' interprets the world - San Francisco Gate
Elizabeth Bradfield thinks hard about being a naturalist in her new book of poetry, "Interpretive Work." Many of Bradfield's poems provide some of the easygoing epiphanies one expects from nature poetry - a sense of awe in the face of the planet's ...
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