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- Giant Sand, 'proVisions' (Yep Roc) (Spin)
With its galumphing rhythms and down-home accents, provisions straddles the fence between parody and poetry, ultimately landing safely on its poetic ass, thanks to lines that transcend Flannery O’Connor 101: “Every girl is like a pearl / Hearts strung along and then left stranded,” ringleader Howe Gelb muses. Occasional Hee Haw –level throwbacks muck up the works (the dopey “Can Do,” for ...
- Faraz's death mourned by litrary circles - Nation
LAHORE - Ahmad Faraz, a great poet of contemporary era, died on Tuesday. His contemporary poets, writers and his friends have given heartfelt details about the diverse aspects of his personality. Faraz poetry is both traditional as well as liberal ...
- Jeanette Winterson wonders if modern life is too frenetic to find ... - Times Online
Jeanette Winterson wonders if modern life is too frenetic to find ...Times Online, UK - 1 hour agoA poem is the perfect compact form, and I spend a lot of time reciting poetry to myself - a line here, a line there to keep me in the richness of language, ...
- Poetry reading tradition continues at the Spoon - Indiana Daily Student
Poetry reading tradition continues at the SpoonIndiana Daily Student - 2 hours ago... to the book “A Linen Weave of Bloomington Poets” which includes poets’ accounts of the Bloomington poetry scene along with poems by Bloomington poets. ...
- Hometown team gets 2nd in National Poetry Slam first bout - The Capital Times
Hometown team gets 2nd in National Poetry Slam first boutThe Capital Times, WI - 16 hours ago"[The poem] had kind of the recurring theme of 'he's not my father, he's not yours either,'" Mata noted. Unlike other teams throughout the competition, ...
- Clinton Street Gentrifies With Foie Gras, Bonbons Amid Bodegas - Bloomberg
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- You can still get a meal of deep- fried pork, rice and beans in lunchroom-style eateries, but Clinton Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side is going upscale fast. That grungy stretch of bodegas, aging beauty salons and rat ...
- Local poet's book of poetry nominated for Pulitzer Prize, National ... - TriVallyCentral
Having touched the lives of countless persons within Connecticut and without, West Hartford resident and poet Bob Jacob's latest book of poetry, "Perspective," was nominated recently for two highly prestigious literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize and ...
- Rock for the ages (China Daily)
The Tang Dynasty's Beijing performance features lead singer Ding Wu (right) and guitarist Liu Yiju (widely known as "Lao Wu"). Vocalist Ding Wu struts across the stage, sporting his signature tight pants and loose T-shirt. The 46-year-old singer now wears his hair cropped closely around his face.
- The Diary: Susan Irvine - Financial Times
The Esoterics is not the name of an art-rock band but what my friend Lucy and I call the particular kind of event we invite each other to. I’ll invite her to a forum on Jacques Derrida. She’ll invite me to hear Iain Sinclair’s bearded cohorts ...
- A Musical Daisy Chain Leads Up to Balanchine - New York Times
A Musical Daisy Chain Leads Up to BalanchineNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoOn such occasions City Ballet audience and dancers feel like family; and the emotion corresponds. “Musical Muses” repeats on Saturday at 2 pm at New York ...
- Poetry column: All the puzzle parts of perfection - Evening Sun
We all have hoped for perfection, envisioned what it should be like, and have occasionally been so audacious as to plan for it sometimes, especially when meaningful events are in the offing. Olympic athletes use perfection in their meditative ...
- Down from these hills: A poet - Arkansas Times
A fine review in today's New York Times of the latest book of poetry from C.D. Wright, the Arkansas native and MacArthur genius grant winner who teaches at Brown. She's gone beyond her early "idiom Ozarkia" to write in "Risking, Fall, Hovering" about ...
- London show of Bob Dylan paintings could be Million Dollar Bash - Earthtimes
London - Even before opening, the exhibition in London of 300 paintings by legendary US singer Bob Dylan promises to be a million dollar bash, as most of the work has already been sold. The Drawn Blank Series, comprising some 300 colourful canvasses ...
- Cultural confluence - The Statesman
Cultural confluenceThe Statesman, India - 18 hours agoThe poetry meet was organised mainly to promote cultural and lingualistic unity among the people of the various groups in North Bengal. ...
- Interview with JJ Massa - Coffee Time Romance
Interview with JJ MassaCoffee Time Romance, GA - 1 hour agoSometimes, poetry for contests or my own entertainment. I started writing books a little over a year ago. Yes, I’ve always wanted to write but I didn’t know ...
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