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- England: In praise of the north (Guardian Unlimited)
Ten writers explain why everything about life in the north is the best in Britain
- Finding challenge in verse - Stonnington Leader
Stonnington LeaderFinding challenge in verseStonnington Leader, Australia - 4 hours ago... it's just talking free-flow emotion and that's not very challenging, really," Albiston said. "For every rule in formal poetry, a creative window opens. ...
- Near Mantua, Italy - guardian.co.uk
Near Mantua, Italyguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoVirgil's influence saturates English poetry: high points of inspiration include Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece, Milton's Paradise ...
- Noted Palestinian poet Darwish dead at 67 (UPI)
HOUSTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was best known for his works about life in Palestinian territories, has died in Houston at the age of 67, officials say.
- New Recordings (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Pop A decade ago, Gift Of Screws was going to be Lindsey Buckingham's fourth solo album, but a Fleetwood Mac reunion got in the way, and many of those songs ended up on Mac's Say You Will in 2003. Now Buckingham has resurrected the title for his fifth solo work, the successor to 2006's Under the Skin.
- 1. halternativer Literaturabend - SALIKUS.de - OnlineMagazin für Halle (Saale)
1. halternativer LiteraturabendSALIKUS.de - OnlineMagazin für Halle (Saale), Germany - Jul 15, 2008Juli 2008 läd der Verein HALternativ eV, statt zum Poetry Slam, zum 1. halternativen Literaturabend in den Turm in Halle (Saale) ein. ...
- The Wheel Thing (Baltimore City Paper)
A friend in Pigtown says, "I've got a Charmed Life for you. There's this guy who lives down here who fixes up old bikes. He's a real character." His name? "Sam Fitzsimmons."
- Swapping Knowledge Across Generations - Feministe
Swapping Knowledge Across GenerationsFeministe - 1 hour agoAlida has written poetry since childhood, and is editing a collection of her work, entitled Songs From An Unsheltered Place. In real life, Alida is charming ...
- Pay No Attention To That Man Behind the Curtain (Blogcritics.org)
The lousy job of political reporting. In the middle of the last century, stories were told of poets in the then USSR commanding audiences of tens of thousands for readings. America was astounded. Poetry? Not rock and roll? Granted, the Soviet Union backed those poets and rock stars were, of course, not allowed to tour. But, I think it is apocryphal. People will gather any time...
- Hulett to host Ride a Horse, Feed a Cowboy - Black Hills Pioneer
Hulett to host Ride a Horse, Feed a CowboyBlack Hills Pioneer, SD - 2 hours agoCowboy poetry, featuring Diane Tribitt, cowboy church, a poker tournament and dance are also scheduled for the weekend. “We hope people will come out for ...
- The Guide STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER - The State Journal-Register
The Guide STATE JOURNAL-REGISTERThe State Journal-Register, IL - 1 hour agoPeoples Coffeehouse, 9-11:30 pm every Friday, Peoples Church, 1109 E. Ash St. Featuring Live Poets Society moonlight open microphone night for poetry, ...
- Stemming the tide - South Coast Today
Murders: 5 (3 shot and 2 stabbed) NEW BEDFORD — It's a mild September night and there is a large crowd milling around the Ben Rose housing development on South First Street. It's a week night and school starts again in about 12 hours, but no one ...
- Profile: Leonard Cohen - Times Online
Leonard Cohen’s habit of going into every concert with a prayer on his lips is hardly surprising. He believes that someone took a shot at him long ago at a concert in France that was attended by rowdy Maoists. As he reflected later: “They’re ...
- Mortensen delves into cowboy mentality - Dose.ca
Mortensen delves into cowboy mentalityDose.ca, Canada - Sep 9, 2008The gun would be his bad-ass friend and sidekick," says Mortensen, who recently started his own publishing house dedicated to criticism, poetry and other ...
- Book written in 1936 on single life fits today's world, too - Courier-Post
"The chances are that at some time in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence," wrote Vogue scribe Marjorie Hillis in the 1936 book "Live Alone and Like It." The gem of a ...
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