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- Central students get personal in 'Portrait' (The Doings Weekly)
To read poems is one thing. To bring them to life on stage is something else entirely. But that's exactly what the cast of "Stuck in a Portrait: A Performance in Three Snap Shots" will do next week at Hinsdale Central High School. Performers will stage poems that were written by students in August during a week-long poetry writing camp with published poet Kevin Coval. The poems will be brought ...
- Philly moves to the Fringe - Courier-Post
On a recent Monday night, a crowd of friends, family, media and the curious waded into Plays and Players, a fine old theater on Delancey Street in Philadelphia. A Live Arts Festival/PhillyFringe preview, one of three that were offered, showcased ...
- Book Review - Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by Herb ... - Blogcritics.org
See also: » Book Review: Silent Thunder by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen » Book Review: Digging Into America by Anne Tyler » Book Review - The Last Season by Eric Blehm James Baldwin fascinates and is fascinated with Harlem. The confluence of ...
- Weaving together bodies and words - Tonight
Weaving together bodies and wordsTonight, South Africa - 4 minutes agoBy Adrienne Sichel In the sunlit Newtown dance studio Lebo Mashile's words trigger the motion which dissolves into poetry. Standing in a tight-knit clump, ...
- War diary has Banjo Paterson's unseen poems - News.com.au
The discovery of an 1899 cash book, whose back pages contain Paterson's unseen poetry, has thrilled Australian literature buffs. Major G. L. Lee, who commanded a squadron of the NSW Lancers in South Africa during the Boer War, used the cash book to ...
- English poet shares various poems - SMC Collegian
English poet shares various poemsSMC Collegian, CA - 25 minutes agoThe common theme of the night was the combination of prose and lyrics as well the way poetry can fuse facts and emotion in a singular document which ...
- Culture Project to Conclude Run Of 'Expatriate' 8/3 - Broadway World
Culture Project to Conclude Run Of 'Expatriate' 8/3Broadway World, NY - 1 hour agoEXPATRIATE tells the story of Claudie and Alphine, two sophisticated and sexy African-American performing artists and longtime sister-friends. ...
- Review: D.V. - Diana Vreeland (ThirdAge)
Prepare to be dazzled. You know all about "pink is the navy blue of India" and "wash your blond child's hair with dead champagne" and "the bikini is the most important invention since the H-bomb", but you may have been busy elsewhere when Diana Vreeland's memoir appeared.
- Poetic License (The Art Of Writing About Music) (Arts Journal)
"The past century has taught us that good writing can appear in unexpected forms: film scripts, Sopranos-type series, the storytelling of R. Crumb or Art Spiegelman, for instance. And writing about poetry, particularly praising contemporary poetry, is a fine but extremely difficult art."
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 - Metapsychology
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008Metapsychology, NY - 2 hours agoFond of a rather high-flown style of prose, he saves his most melodramatic turns of phrase for rhapsodizing about melancholy folk-- those "gloomy souls who ...
- Grimshaw wins Montana honours (Stuff)
Charlotte Grimshaw is following in her father's literary footsteps, winning the Montana Medal for her book of short stories, Opportunity.
- Prophet dared to be truthful - Sydney Morning Herald
The great writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn believed it was his moral duty to record Russia's 20th-century experience for posterity. Inspirational ... Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In his lecture of acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 ...
- Big Bend People: Been down in Australia, Y’all - Alpine Avalanche
Adeline Fox just couldn’t stay away from a volleyball, not even after graduating from AHS in May. So she went to Australia — yes, THAT Australia — to play beach and gym volleyball for a couple of weeks, give or take a few travel days including ...
- The Other Side of Barack Obama - Der Spiegel
Voting for Obama is like having an exciting love affair. He can be so stirring while Clinton can on occasion be downright annoying. He stands for passion, while she incorporates routine. He offers political poetry, she a raw realism. "I was sad and ...
- Powerhouse of poets laureate - Stuff.co.nz
Powerhouse of poets laureateStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 4 hours ago"If I'm going to a poetry reading or if there's a book launch, I'll bring it along, it's such a talking point. It's a wonderful thing to be able to hand it ...
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