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- Revisiting Coney Island of the Mind - Guardian Blogs
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Coney Island of the Mind , Lawrence Ferlinghetti's landmark second volume of poetry. In commemoration, New Directions has recently released a new hardback edition of the book , complete with ...
- What good is the Bard to book-shunning boys? - Guardian Blogs
Yet again last week, the reading abilities of boys were up for discussion: "Sats results ... revealed a particular problem with boys' reading ability. One in five 14-year-old boys has a reading age below what's expected of an 11-year-old ." The Today ...
- Steve Ralls: I Love You; Please Go Away (HuffingtonPost)
Several years ago, I attended a poetry slam at New York's Bowery Poetry Club. One of the presenting poets, whose name now escapes me, tore...
- Mountain Town Stages to conclude season with Cow Ballet - Park Record
Mountain Town Stages to conclude season with Cow BalletPark Record, UT - 1 hour ago6 from 2-8 pm at Woodenshoe Park in Peoa and features a cowboy reading poetry, a silent auction, sack races for kids, beer races for adults, ...
- People in the news (The Standard-Times)
McCartney appeals for peace over concert
- A Macclesfield ode by Jo - Community News Group
A Macclesfield ode by JoCommunity News Group, UK - 40 minutes agoUsing some 50 inspirational ideas submitted by members of the public, Jo produced her words of wisdom at a special poetry evening which she jointly hosted ...
- Lingua publica - Enter Stage Right
Lingua publicaEnter Stage Right, Canada - 1 hour agoBoth sides agree something must be done about America being the world's only superpower, the sad legacy of the straight white male. ...
- Oh, what a paradise was lost (The News & Observer)
Ethan Canin's first novel in seven years channels varied influences. The title is taken from one of Elia Kazan's best, if most resolutely uncommercial, films. The story is a conflation of "The Great Gatsby" and "All the King's Men," with strong overtones of "The Magnificent Ambersons" (one of Canin's characters echoes Booth Tarkington by referring to "one of God's lesser known laws. The law of ...
- Writing It Downtown: A Word and Heart Primer - University of British Columbia
University of British ColumbiaWriting It Downtown: A Word and Heart PrimerUniversity of British Columbia, Canada - 2 hours agoFor their CSL projects, the UBC students taught workshops in fiction, poetry, life-writing (also known as creative non-fiction), and even blogging. ...
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67 - USA Today
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dead at 67USA Today - Aug 9, 2008By Pool, Getty Images GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Mahmoud Darwish, the world's most recognized Palestinian poet, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian ...
- Sinangån-ta shows the power of spoken word - Pacific Daily News
Sinangån-ta shows the power of spoken wordPacific Daily News, GU - 1 hour agoAnd while she may initially seem timid, the teenager finds her strength belting out spoken word poetry with a rhythm and self-confidence beyond her 17 years ...
- Things to Go and Do - like read poetry (Exeter News-Letter)
The 2008-2009 Poetry Hoot season with the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 at Café Espresso, 738 Islington St., (Plaza 800) Portsmouth. Featured readers will be Kate Aset and Hugh Hennedy. At 8 p.m. an open mic will be...
- Snow Hill hits the streets with reggae band - Bethany Beach Wave
Snow Hill hits the streets with reggae bandBethany Beach Wave, DE - 3 hours agoNew works by Jim Adcock, poetry by Jen and photos by New York City photographer Sam Smith will be featured. Refreshments will be served. ...
- Demise of Faraz great loss for literary world; Chairman PAL - Associated Press of Pakistan
Demise of Faraz great loss for literary world; Chairman PALAssociated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - 30 minutes agoAround 15 collections of his poetry were published during his life and all of his popular poems and Ghazals were sung by prominent singers. ...
- A rare slice of NZ railway history now online (Scoop.co.nz)
A contributor to the last issue of the New Zealand Railways Magazine in 1940 wrote that those who had not experienced a railway train had been “cheated” and “failed to share in one of the grandest experiences of life”.
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