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- BILL MCGRAW: Calif. woman pens a rant-and-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."
- Lord Tweedsmuir: Novelist and son of John Buchan who inherited his father's talent but was disappointed of literary fame (Independent)
If all John Buchan's children had it hard, his second son, William, had it hardest. Endowed with his father's literary talent, he yet could not hope to match John Buchan in his other occupations of strategy, high policy, business, sport, action. Lacking his father's industry, he was burdened with his ambition, his restlessness, his romance of spirit and his weakness for tobacco. Though ...
- Dubious Rhetoric: Maurizio Cattelan Meets Banksy - NY Arts Magazine
Dubious Rhetoric: Maurizio Cattelan Meets BanksyNY Arts Magazine, NY - 30 minutes agoThe concept of authority represents the third “narrative territory” these artists question through their poetry. With Frank and Jamie Cattelan overturns the ...
- Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimism - Financial Times
Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Ode to optimismFinancial Times, UK - 16 minutes agoBy Kevin Goldstein-Jackson As well as writing this column, I am trying to meet the deadline for delivery of haiku for a small poetry magazine, ...
- Stafford's wartime poetry shows the power of his convictions - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Stafford's wartime poetry shows the power of his convictionsThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 15 minutes agoThe only major writing Stafford dedicated to his experience as a registered pacifist, and his consequent four-year alternative service in the Civilian ...
- Gratuitous curlicues - Telegraph.co.uk
Gratuitous curlicuesTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 39 minutes agoEvery book classed as "Poetry and the Drama" comes, like the one illustrated above, with the endorsement of Shelley - although I'm not sure that Ben ...
- Troupe brings Shakespeare's words to life - Halifax News Net
Troupe brings Shakespeare's words to lifeHalifax News Net, Canada - 1 hour agoWe laugh at Pyramus's love because his poetry is all wrong; we swoon at Romeo for his gilded tongue. Is that all the difference between comedy and tragedy? ...
- Religion Calendar: 07/19/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Religion Calendar is published weekly by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Information may be mailed to Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; fax to 946-8632; e-mail gmurray@record-eagle.com . Items should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
- The fiddler is on the move - The South African
The fiddler is on the moveThe South African, UK - 6 hours agoI had always written poetry, and I had studied singing, so I started writing songs and playing around with voice and violin. ...
- Lit fest needs more big-name authors - Kansas City Star
I’ve had a week to reflect on the second Kansas City Literary Festival. I’m convinced there will be a third installment in 2009. I’m fairly confident of a fourth edition in 2010. But if I were a betting man, I’m not sure I’d wager on a ...
- Penn State Altoona Kids' College offers art camps - PennState Altoona
Penn State Altoona is once again partnering with the Altoona Area School District to offer Kids’ College camps geared toward students interested in the arts. There are five such camps running July 14-18: Art of Culinary; Cartooning; Draw Dragons of ...
- Art is life for advocate and author Nina Gibans - Cleveland Jewish News
From floor to ceiling, art lines the walls of Nina and Jim Gibans’s spacious Shaker Square condominium. And each piece tells a story, says arts scholar, author and advocate Nina Freedlander Gibans, 76, who recently received a “Judson Smart Living ...
- Thomas M. Disch: Poet and writer of death-haunted science fiction who won plaudits for 'Camp Concentration' (Independent)
The death of the American writer Thomas M. Disch, by his own hand, on the Fourth of July, was the last act of a drama that had been unfolding in public for several years.
- WHOis: Noise artist and musician Ian Fulcher of Ann Arbor - Ann Arbor News Blog
Claim to Fame: Noise artist and musician, creator of "circuit-bent" guitar pedals, half of the band "Drafted by Minotaurs.". Where do you live? Ann Arbor. What do you do? I work for Ann Arbor Audio, which installs sound systems for (the University of ...
- No Shushing in This Library - San Diego Reader
No Shushing in This LibrarySan Diego Reader, CA - 1 hour agoA bulletin board reminds us that it’s the Year of the Rat or National Poetry Month. We don’t have art like the new libraries, which have benefited from the ...
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