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- Concerts, Exhibits, Gone Fishing, Dance Lessons and More: The ... - Philadelphia Center City Weekly Press
Concerts, Exhibits, Gone Fishing, Dance Lessons and More: The ...Philadelphia Center City Weekly Press, PA - 2 hours ago... admiring Jackson Pollock’s freedom, Arthur Dove’s emphasis on nature and Arshile Gorky’s quirky biomorphism as well as the poetry of Wallace Stevens and ...
- World writers decry censorship at Swedish literary meet - AFP
AFPWorld writers decry censorship at Swedish literary meetAFP - 2 hours agoNasreen, who has written some 30 books of poetry, essays, novels and short stories that often criticise the oppression of women in the name of religion and ...
- Argentina's 'Loony Radio' threatened by hospital closure - The Independent
With no front teeth, Pacotillo is an unlikely radio sensation. And his patter with members of his on-air posse sounds more like a group therapy session than a Saturday show. But then the broadcast is coming from the inside of a Buenos Aires ...
- A musical salute to the written word - Austin 360 (subscription)
A musical salute to the written wordAustin 360 (subscription), TX - 6 hours agoBy Brad Buchholz Jazz vocalist Tina Marsh has always loved poetry — Mary Oliver, Rumi, Federico García Lorca, Marshall Stewart Ball — and she clearly ...
- Norma Winstone: Britain's Poetic Jazz Singer - NPR
Norma Winstone: Britain's Poetic Jazz SingerNPR - 2 hours agoWinstone reads a lot of poetry and gets inspired. Perhaps the most interesting confluence of music and text on the new disc is the song "Ciant" (which ...
- 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 ...
- First Fridays on Fourth of July - AZ Central.com
AZ Central.comFirst Fridays on Fourth of JulyAZ Central.com, AZ - 2 hours agoIt's a mix of sing-song poetry and surreal imagery that tells the story of a middle-age woodworker's existential angst. First line: "Henry thinks crows are ...
- Sending messages into the future - Marion Star
Sending messages into the futureMarion Star, OH - 3 hours ago"They can write what their parents were like, write their own poetry or just be artistic. From pictures to personal letters to grandchildren, ...
- Madison spoken word artists on home turf at National Poetry Slam - Wisconsin State Journal
Downstairs, Garbage is pouring misery out from the jukebox. Upstairs, David Hart is battling his faulty memory and the audible sound of Shirley Manson's voice to get his poem out. His eyes are squeezed shut, he's trying to remember the next line. He ...
- ‘That Time’ for professor at crossroads (Centre Daily Times)
A compelling and dramatic novel, set in academia but reaching out to the furthest limits of the world we live in, “That Time of Year” ranks with C.P. Snow’s finest works. The riveting story line centers on a venomous and false charge of sexual assault against the protagonist that, if upheld, would destroy him.
- James Reaney, 81 (The Globe and Mail)
National literary icon had 50-year career as playwright, poet and professor
- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant and a rave for the D (Detroit Free Press)
"The Straits" is essentially an epic poem about Detroit. It's perhaps the first epic poem about Detroit, or at least the first of the 21st Century. Kristin Palm describes it as a "docu-poem," as in documentary. The book has two pages of sources, which is unusual for a poem, and she acknowledges: "I don't think of it solely as poetry."
- Youth invited to get edge with workshop (Newport News-Times)
Writers On The Edge is offering a week-long poetry writing workshop open to Lincoln County youth ages 7 to 10. The workshop, “Write On! Write Now!” is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day August 4-8.
- The Dandy Warhols (Calgary Sun)
...Earth to The Dandy Warhols... The Dandys have always lived in their own little world.
- Durham Bulls still bask in Hollywood glory - WRAL
Posted: Today at 12:01 a.m. DURHAM, N.C. — The bull still snarls from atop the outfield wall, snorting smoke after home runs and taunting hitters with four simple words written on it: Hit bull, win steak. The replica of the prop Hollywood built for ...
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