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- Douglas Dunn - Times Online
Douglas DunnTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoIf, as verse, Imlah’s writing has panache, as poetry it frequently has power to provoke or move. “Braveheart” tells of the adventure-cum-pilgrimage ...
- Green Says ‘No’ To Comeback Mundine Rematch - Secondsout.com
By Paul Upham: Retired WBA light heavyweight world champion Danny Green says suggestions he is on the verge of announcing a comeback to rematch Anthony Mundine, are false. Green, who has just launched a new book on his career titled, “Closed Fists ...
- The Arts (The Edmonton Examiner)
Drunken revelry, breakneck speeds and abstract vocal chants aren’t usually the first things that come to mind when the word “poetry” is mentioned.
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - San Francisco Gate
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a work ...
- Playing to the Devoted (Folo) Children Who Dance, Shoot, and Kill ... - RedOrbit
Playing to the Devoted (Folo) Children Who Dance, Shoot, and Kill ...RedOrbit, TX - May 23, 2008The story, minimal as it is, has some interesting gothic implications. A young man (played by Felix Lajko) returns home to a Hungarian river settlement ...
- Email-like names cause controversy in China - Times of India
Email-like names cause controversy in ChinaTimes of India, India - Jul 8, 2008Unlike the African-American leader of the 1960s, Malcolm X, who dropped his surname to snap ties with his "white" slave masters, modern day Chinese names ...
- Power Pop Poet (University of Melbourne University News)
When he hears a new kind of song, or is particularly excited by one, poet Michael Farrell starts thinking about how to create an equivalent in poetry. Farrell has been obsessed with pop music since he was around seven years old; his first published poem around this time was based on a hymn.
- This week - Times Online
This weekTimes Online, UK - 44 minutes agoThe extent of American influences on his writing – allegedly from Emerson, Poe and Whistler – are examined in a book by Michael Murphy. ...Kleinzahler’s New York makes the London of TS Eliot’s Waste Land ... Times Onlineall 2 news articles
- Kay Ryan of Fairfax is named U.S. poet laureate (Marin Independent Journal)
Kay Ryan of Fairfax, award-winning poet and self-described "modern hermit," is going to Washington.
- Of Emily Dickinson and Steve McQueen on the Smith River - Missoulian
“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.” The line from Emily Dickinson drifted through my consciousness again last week on the starlit evening of the summer solstice. The insistent roll of the Smith River had lulled us all for ...
- Prof. Joe Heithaus and Fellow 'Airpoets' to Launch New Book Wednesday - DePauw University
DePauw UniversityProf. Joe Heithaus and Fellow 'Airpoets' to Launch New Book WednesdayDePauw University, IN - 14 minutes agoHis work has also appeared in Poetry, the North American Review, the African American Review and the Southern Review. This spring, Professor Heithaus was ...
- UT Dallas Celebration to Mark Juneteenth - University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
UT Dallas Celebration to Mark JuneteenthUniversity of Texas at Dallas (press release), TX - 37 minutes agoLocal artists and poets, some of whom have participated in SUAAB’s Underground Poetry Circus. Earlier in Juneteenth week, the Student Union & Activities ...
- Review: Dylan demonstrates virtuosity - Courier-Journal
A few months ago, Bob Dylan received a Pulitzer Prize. Not in the music category, where he’d have joined previous winners like Charles Ives and Ornette Coleman. Nor in poetry, where he’d have been listed alongside William Carlos Williams and ...
- Wild Card -- Weekend - Spokane Spokesman-Review
Only 3 more days until we get after it again in the new year. I hope you're enjoying yourselves as 2005 comes to an end. If you have some thoughts on the old year or resolutions for the new one, you can post it here. Or start your own thread. Or wait ...
- Bathinda, July 10 - Tribune
Concerned over unending reports on the non-availability of potable water in the region, the IFFCO Foundation today installed three solar-based water purifiers in different villages of the Abohar and Fazilka sub-division. They were inaugurated by the ...
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