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- Just because the bloggers are tapping away like laptop Mozarts doesn't ... - Guardian Unlimited
Some mornings I like to take my laptop and go and write in the local coffee shop near my office because I have low self-esteem and imagine that people will admire me from afar. And they do. I live in a village in upstate New York that prides itself ...
- James Tate's poems are about something and everything else (The Kansas City Star)
James Tate is the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry. You’ll remember “Seinfeld,” the sitcom dubbed “a show about nothing.” Here’s part of Charles Simic’s blurb for Tate’s new collection, The Ghost Soldiers: “To write a poem out of nothing at all is Tate’s genius. Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry, and that is ...
- The Good Rat - Slate
If I can be said to have a favorite kind of column, it's one in which I can bring to your attention an exciting literary development—one whose importance has not received the notice it deserves outside the ivory tower—and then tell you what to ...
- Literary Happenings: 3 Vietnam War books geared to young people - Ventura County Star
Literary Happenings: 3 Vietnam War books geared to young peopleVentura County Star, CA - 8 minutes agoBank of Books, 748 E. Main St., Ventura. 643-3385. Train of Thought 6:30 pm Thursday. Poetry reading at 856 E. Thompson Blvd., Ventura. 642-1146. ...
- Best Bets - Huntsville Item
Best Bets items may be submitted up to two weeks in advance and are subject to editing. Items must be received by 1 p.m. to run the following day. Items must be submitted via e-mail or U.S. Postal Service. All submissions must be typed and may be e ...
- Student’s bike was stolen - La Crosse Tribune
I will gladly offer a reward for the return of my son’s gray and black Iron Horse mountain bike. It was secured with a lock and cable to a bike rack at the Oakdale Apartments near campus. It makes me sad when he leaves Omaha, Neb., to head back to ...
- Magazine to host day-long writers workshop - Desert Sun
Mary Sojourner, an author and commentator, will host "WRITE! A Desert Writers Workshop" from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 28 at The Sun Runner Magazine headquarters - 61855 29 Palms Highway in Joshua Tree. WRITE! will be an intensive all-day workshop for ...
- Kenya: Books Picked for Mutahi Wahome Award (AllAfrica.com)
Six books have been nominated for the Wahome Mutahi Literary Awards to be presented on Saturday as part of an upcoming book fair.
- Paint the town: Quincy art star Dean Mitchell takes a brush to New Orleans (Tallahassee Democrat)
New Orleans has been kind to the artist Dean Mitchell, so he returns the favor often by making it one of his favorite subjects.
- Scientific Fact - New City Chicago
Scientific FactNew City Chicago, IL - 5 hours agoand “How can you understand poetry?” Easy and goofy, sure, but a nice reminder that this business can be fun, too. “Brain Thrust Mastery,” released on ...
- Few treasures found in 'Boxes' (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
For a poet of great insight, Donald Hall has penned an awfully shallow memoir.
- Letter from Parliament - Paul Rowen MP - Rochdale Online
Letter from Parliament - Paul Rowen MPRochdale Online, UK - 14 hours agoIf you would like to get involved in the many activities including the parade itself, the poetry competition and the other activities then please contact ...
- Review: Joel Toledo's 'Chiaroscuro' pits art, nostalgia versus ... - ABS-CBN
By the year 2006 the Bridport Prize International Creative Writing Competition had earned the kind of venerable reputation that only a thirty-year history, plus an impressive roster of winners and judges, could grant. Simply put: the Bridport Prize ...
- Basra - here's the good news story - Times Online
Basra - here's the good news storyTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoAnd last month they were able to hold al-Murbad, the annual poetry festival, which had been a regular feature of life in Basra for centuries and which again ...
- Nahant to hold fifth annual Mitchell's Cahnah block party - The Daily Item of Lynn
Nahant to hold fifth annual Mitchell's Cahnah block partyThe Daily Item of Lynn, MA - 6 hours agoNEF is currently focused on enrichment programs including music, drama, poetry, dance, art and technology for Johnson Elementary School students. ...
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