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- Chris Satullo: Your chance to help promote the arts (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Political discussion is most often about problems - decrying them, blaming them on someone, arguing over how to solve them.
- Writers read passages about 'sex and private schools,' fear, depression (University of Connecticut Daily Campus)
A small but appreciative crowd turned out Wednesday afternoon at the UConn Co-op to hear Lynn Z. Bloom and Margaret Gibson recall the pains and pleasures of girlhood. For Gibson, better known for her poetry (the latest volume of which, "One Body," recently took home the gold at the Connecticut Book Awards), tackling the memoir was an act of love.
- Southwest Riverside County community news briefs for Sunday, Sept. 21 (North County Times)
WHAT'S HAPPENING Filmmaker to visit club TEMECULA ---- Two film clips by San Diego filmmaker Mickey Harrison will be shown when the Temecula Valley Woman's Club meets at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Temeku Hills Country Club.
- Malaysia's mid-autumn revolution - Malaysiakini
It has been a very tense week but after reading this article, I have a good feeling that our nation's crisis is going to have a fairy tale ending soon. Fairy tales and politics have always been antagonistic and yet they maintain a symbiotic ...
- A poet's Yorkshire retreat (Independent)
Iovershot at first, missing the turn into Zion Terrace entirely and zooming up past the clog factory. Prevented by high stone walls from turning round, I soon found myself on top of Yorkshire moorland, iridescent green in the afternoon sun. So this was where Gerald Hughes took his younger brother camping, smoking out weasels and shooting rabbits. I executed a cautious turn and swung back down ...
- In the beginning, there was the car - Telegraph.co.uk
In the beginning, there was the carTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoHis column appears every Saturday in these pages and you can also read his thoughts on cars, bikes, pies, poetry and much more at telegraph.co.uk/motoring, ...
- St. Elizabeth, Mythmaker - Slate
Even when she by all rights should be reassuming her position a highly sympathetic figure--maybe she really believed her husband's line about how he couldn't be the father of Rielle Hunter's child --Elizabeth Edwards finds a way to be annoying! From ...
- Cardboard Synthesizers Look as Cool as your Software Synths Sound - Wired
We're not the only ones who love the look of analog synthesizers, with their patch cables, oscillators, filters and other old school controls. But when it comes to convenience or even sound quality, they've been left far behind by modern synthesizers ...
- JOE BIDEN: HAIR WE CAN BELIEVE IN - Yahoo News
Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention was great. As I write, he hasn't given it yet, but these are my favorite parts: "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the ...
- Subterfuge of simplicity - BusinessWorld Online
Subterfuge of simplicityBusinessWorld Online, Philippines - 3 hours agoBut this is a happy occasion for poetry so I will not delve into that dismal state of our arts and culture. Professor Sugbo’s collection is devoid of ...
- Reading celebrates national poetry day - Malvern Gazette
Reading celebrates national poetry dayMalvern Gazette, UK - 10 hours agoBy Gary Bills-Geddes » THE Hill Poets will celebrate National Poetry Day on Thursday, October 9, with recitals in the Great Malvern Hotel, between 7pm and ...
- A small town in Iowa in photos, then and now (Seattle Times)
In the four decades he's lived in the farm town of Oxford, Iowa (population 705), Peter Feldstein, 66, has remained something of an outsider...
- HISTORY Risky business - Windy City Times
Windy City TimesHISTORY Risky businessWindy City Times, IL - 9 hours agoAllen Ginsberg's sexually explicit poetry provoked outrage. Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo played roles that suggested lesbianism but that's because they ...
- Robert Giroux, 94, editor and publisher who guided prominent ... - Arizona Daily Star
Robert Giroux, 94, editor and publisher who guided prominent ...Arizona Daily Star, AZ - 3 hours agoHe introduced a long roster of illustrious writers, publishing first books by, among others, Jean Stafford, Robert Lowell, Bernard Malamud, ...
- The Casbah of Algiers heaves a cry of despair - magharebia.com
magharebia.comThe Casbah of Algiers heaves a cry of despairmagharebia.com - 17 minutes ago"I no longer recognise the Casbah," says 70 year old Mr. Lakhdar, a child of the Casbah who has lived here for nearly fifty years. ...
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