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- Ode to optimism - Financial Times
Ode to optimismFinancial Times, UK - 56 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, ...
- Spoken Word Comes to the Smithsonian - Smithsonian
Spoken Word Comes to the SmithsonianSmithsonian - 7 hours ago... International Youth Poetry Slam Festival, treated visitors to a strident production of Native American spoken word recently in the museum’s main hall. ...
- Downtown gets ready for First Friday (Mount Vernon News)
MOUNT VERNON -- The Heritage Centre Association announces the next First Friday will be Sept. 5. CES Credit Union is the event sponsor.
- Sir Sean takes on star role at book festival - Scotsman
SIR Sean Connery will be returning to Edinburgh to unveil his long-awaited autobiography on his 78th birthday at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, it was announced yesterday. Launching the festival programme, the director, Catherine ...
- Obama's Failed Fight-Back - Slate
Time magazine's "hot shots" breakfast Tuesday morning Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Rep. Artur Davis, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and D.A. Kamala Harris. 1) Booker and Davis are very impressive. Newsom, who seems kind of goofily egomaniacal, not so ...
- College Rock - Free Times
Free TimesCollege RockFree Times, SC - 4 hours ago... are closer to the prose of James Joyce or the poetry of Walt Whitman than they are to the vocal stylings of Weiss’ brethren on Tooth and Nail records. ...
- Fall arts preview: 'Chicago Songs' intended as poetry to ear (The Sacramento Bee)
This composer, a 38-year-old Fresno native, is the same age poet Carl Sandburg was when he wrote and published the "Chicago Poems," which Erickson used as the inspiration for his "Chicago Songs." Kurt Erickson, the composer of "Chicago Songs," says he was first intrigued by the idea of creating a song set using an eclectic mix of 20th century American texts.
- Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill, By ... - Independent
Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill, By ...Independent, UK - 2 hours agoIf suicide is the last display of power by one who feels generally powerless, then Wevill must have felt powerless most of her life. ...
- Teen Born 1 Pound, 11 Ounces Graduates High School (WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul)
When Ervin Blaylock was born he weighed only 1 pound 11 ounces. Doctors at Hennepin County Medical Center weren't sure he would make it.
- For Vivienne Shub, the Role of a Lifetime - Washington Post
Vivienne Shub in "The Cone Sister," written by her sister Naomi Greenberg-Slovin, who also penned "Vive la Vivienne!," which opens Sept. 8. (By Stan Barouh -- Everyman Theatre) Actresses about to turn 90 don't have a wide selection of roles, but that ...
- Pioneering lesbian rights activist dies just weeks after wedding (Independent)
Del Martin, the pioneering lesbian rights activist whose career spanned more than five decades, and who twice took part in California's “first†gay marriage, has died at the age of 87.
- 'Lyrical Terrorist' Samina Malik cleared on appeal - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk'Lyrical Terrorist' Samina Malik cleared on appealTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 6 hours ago"Ms Malik was not prosecuted for her poetry. She was prosecuted for possessing documents that could provide practical assistance to terrorists. ...
- Using the Law to Protect Friendship Seems Yucky: A Guest Post - New York Times Blogs
Ethan Leib , an associate professor of law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, blogged here earlier this week about his research on friendship and the law. This is his second of three posts on the subject. In my last post ...
- Tales from the pens of pupils - Scarborough Today
Tales from the pens of pupilsScarborough Today, UK - 4 hours agoThere are a variety of stories featured included ones about dragons, scarecrows, fantasy and poetry. Mrs Durrant, of Filey Road, said: “I have been coaching ...
- E. Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, Ancient Poetic Etymology. The Pelopids ... - Fabula
FabulaE. Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, Ancient Poetic Etymology. The Pelopids ...Fabula, France - 18 hours agoSelect passages from Homer and archaic lyric poetry provide the matrix for etymological patterns; their validity is examined in an intertextual study of the ...
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