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- Hell rides in - Creative Loafing Tampa
Hell rides inCreative Loafing Tampa, FL - 53 minutes agoThe smoothly digestible freneticism of WALL-E's last act is a bit of a let-down after the near-minimalist poetry of the unconventional opening passages ...
- Slam poets not averse to quirky verse - Illawara Mercury
Slam poets not averse to quirky verseIllawara Mercury, Australia - 1 hour agoBY JODIE MINUS Poetry is in such a healthy state that it's given birth to new movements, according to a University of Wollongong lecturer. ...
- A Van Cliburn anniversary (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
If cultural gods tell us more about us than about themselves, Van Cliburn holds a particularly warped and smoky mirror up to the classical-music world he intermittently dominated over the last half-century - one that shows much about the strange price of being a folk hero.
- On his birthday, Amitabh Bachchan rushed to hospital - Mangalorean.com
Mangalorean.comOn his birthday, Amitabh Bachchan rushed to hospitalMangalorean.com, India - 11 hours agoMumbai, Oct 11 (IANS) His father's poetry and some dry fruits - that is all that Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan wants on his 66th birthday Saturday. ...
- Kicking a Dead Horse - Guardian Unlimited
End of the road ... Stephen Rea in Kicking a Dead Horse. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Sam Shepard's characters constantly dream of a vanished American West; and the process reaches its terminal fulfilment in this Beckettian monologue about a man and ...
- From Chinese Antiquity, Tea Has a Long History - The Epoch Times
From Chinese Antiquity, Tea Has a Long HistoryThe Epoch Times, NY - Sep 29, 2008To express their appreciation for tea, scholars in the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) also composed poetry. Meanwhile, at court it was customary to pay tea ...
- Charlotte Kohler, at 99; was Va. Quarterly Review editor - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeCharlotte Kohler, at 99; was Va. Quarterly Review editorBoston Globe, United States - 9 hours agoKohler also was the first US editor to publish South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who later received the Nobel Prize for Literature. ...
- Community diary - St Marys Star
Community diarySt Marys Star, Australia - 24 minutes agoUniversity of the Third Age: Courses for retirees in book clubs, languages, poetry, writing groups and Australian history in the Blacktown area. ...
- Forecasters warn of more flooding (icWales)
HOUSEHOLDERS are being warned to be on their guard to avert flooding over the next 24 hours, as forecasters warn that more heavy rain is expected to sweep into Wales.
- From A to Zyxt (New York Times)
Ammon Shea spends a year plowing through the entire Oxford English Dictionary – and lives to write about it.
- Rhyming cookbook perfect for kids — and adults - Summit Daily News
Rhyming cookbook perfect for kids — and adultsSummit Daily News, CO - 2 hours agoCopper Mountain resident Diana Etheridge has written a cookbook for partents with poetry — and nutrition lessons — for kids. She will be signing her book ...
- Florida Book Awards has call for entries - Stuart News (subscription)
Florida Book Awards has call for entriesStuart News (subscription), FL - 4 hours agoThe contest categories include general fiction, young adult literature, children's literature, Florida nonfiction, poetry, popular fiction, Spanish-language ...
- Welsh poetry winners announced - WalesOnline
Welsh poetry winners announcedWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 39 minutes agoGlobal warming, wind farms, love and loss, factory farming of animals, the closing of Tower Colliery, walking up Pen y Fan, were just some of those subjects ...
- The Anger, the Longing, the Hope - CounterPunch
The Anger, the Longing, the HopeCounterPunch, CA - 15 hours agoHe was a master of classical Arabic, and equally at home with Western and Israeli poetry. Many believe that he was the greatest Arab poet, and one of the ...
- BASH'd To End Off-Broadway Run On 8/30 - Broadway World
BASH'd To End Off-Broadway Run On 8/30Broadway World, NY - 2 hours agoIt is told entirely through rap, spoken word and poetry, turning the often-homophobic musical genre on its ear. Even though the topic is serious, ...
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