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- Phoebe Snow to record live album at Bearsville Theater July 30 and 31 - Times Herald-Record
On the heels of Todd Rundgren’s July 28 performance, jazz/scat singer Phoebe Snow will record a live album at Bearsville Theater on July 30 and 31. Known for her 1975 hit “Poetry Man,” Snow’s previous appearance at the theater was last year ...
- Entertainment (The West Australian)
The birds and the bards are the words this weekend in a unique event linking poets and some feathered friends near Wollongong. A “bird cam” will beam live pictures of the event billed as the world’s first pigeon-powered poetry competition.
- On the Verge of a Hmong-American Literary Movement - New America Media
On the Verge of a Hmong-American Literary MovementNew America Media, CA - 58 minutes agoThese memories came back to me as I performed poetry and prose with other Hmong American writers at the Fresno Art Museum’s Bonner Auditorium on July 26. ...
- Prestigious Griffin Poetry Prizes to be handed out at dinner in ... - Jam! Showbiz
TORONTO - Authors Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje are among the literary stars set to celebrate the best in poetry tonight at a dinner in downtown Toronto. The Griffin Poetry Prize Awards give $50,000 to the best book of Canadian poetry and $50 ...
- Damon Albarn and His Adventurous Honest Jon's Label (The Village Voice)
The most mysterious song I've heard all year is by a Londoner named Ben Simmons. Appropriately, the track shows up on iTunes as "[Blank]," as if technology itself couldn't figure out just how to classify this inscrutable sound: He starts off seemingly emulating Dada sound poetry, huffing and puff...
- 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."
- Last logged in: Today - guardian.co.uk
Last logged in: Todayguardian.co.uk, UK - 58 minutes agoPoetry and music, mostly classical, have travelled with me; and I also enjoy writing (though only for myself so far) and flying. ...
- How interrogation by CIA made al-Qaeda's plotter turn to poetry - Scotsman
IN A makeshift prison in the north of Poland, al-Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It was 18 months after the 9/11 attacks, and the invasion of Iraq was giving Muslim extremists new ...
- The Bible takes an Eastern influence - Bombala Times
THE words of the Bhagavadgita, the songs of a Hindu mystic and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi have all found a place in a controversial Bible published in India. An illustration in the new version depicts the Holy Family as poor Indian villagers ...
- Gao Xingjian: Composing a narrative in ink paint (International Herald Tribune)
Although he is better known around the world as a playwright and novelist, Gao, 68, is celebrated among fine art connoisseurs as one of today's giants in the ink-on-rice-paper medium. His works are on show at Alisan Fine Arts in Hong Kong.
- Our Town city edition - Sun-Journal
Centrally located, Androscoggin County is less than one hour from the seacoast, the mountains, Portland, and the state capital of Augusta. A community of festivals and events, it is home to the Liberty Festival, Moxie Festival, Festival FrancoFun and ...
- 10 a.m.: Jasper native named IN poet laureate - Herald-Bulletin
JASPER, Ind. — An author who writes about his youth in the southern Indiana city of Jasper and his German heritage has been named the state’s second poet laureate. Sixty-four-year-old Norbert Krapf was selected from among 19 nominees to the post ...
- Gender-bending, role-switching keep Savoyards cast lively - Press & Sun-Bulletin
Gender-bending, role-switching keep Savoyards cast livelyPress & Sun-Bulletin, NY - 4 hours agoJoe Petrolowicz, this year's director, believes some of the reticence is because the dialogue is in blank verse -- a tricky non-rhyming poetry that other ...
- Poetry comes to the street in Howick (Scoop.co.nz)
Howick Library is bringing poetry to the street in celebration of Montana New Zealand Poetry Week this month.
- Chopper Read's 'bodyguard' in court - News.com.au
MARK "Chopper" Read's bodyguard threatened to chop a man's head off with a meat cleaver over a $10 debt, a court has been told. Melbourne man Ken Pennant handed himself into police after they left a calling card for him at his local pub. Mr Pennant ...
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