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- Madison spoken word artists on home turf at National Poetry Slam - The Capital Times
Madison spoken word artists on home turf at National Poetry SlamThe Capital Times, WI - 1 hour agoJeanne Bergmann, another poet at Genna's, said in a later interview, "There's a funny little noise that the audience makes when things hit home, ...
- The Boss kicks birthday off on the right note - The Tennessean
The Boss kicks birthday off on the right noteThe Tennessean, TN - 42 minutes agobut the music is still sweeping and the lyrics, poetry. Lots changed from 1981 until 2008: Then, Springsteen was lit by a few colored spots hung far back. ...
- Ben Okri on why teenagers are poets - Daily Telegraph
As the closing date of the Sunday Telegraph Poetry for Performance competition approaches, Booker-winning author Ben Okri explains why young people should put pen to paper. As a child, Ben Okri wrote more than a hundred poems There’s something ...
- Falling into place - Observer Online
Falling into placeObserver Online, IN - 7 hours agoAnd while analyzing poetry in depth may not interest a lot of people, it doesn't hurt to be able to pound out a five page paper in an hour.
- Our Views: Poem can be performance - Baton Rouge Advocate
• Pat Shingleton's Weather Many of us know Wynton Marsalis as a New Orleans native who’s gained international fame as a jazz trumpeter. But Marsalis is also a poetry lover, as you can see for yourself at a really neat Web Site, http://www.pbs.org ...
- Editorial of The New York Sun | August 19, 2008 - New York Sun
Editorial of The New York Sun | August 19, 2008New York Sun, United States - 4 hours agoWe are not against the state paying a competitive price for the best help it can get; we need the best and the brightest to come into public life. ...
- Bostonist Book Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Bostonist)
Murakami's latest hit bookshelves on Tuesday. Bostonist correspondent Evan Fleischer gives us the "rundown." A series of real-time anecdotes focusing in on his time as a writer and runner in Hawaii, New York, Japan, and Cambridge over the past twenty-five-odd years, Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running delivers a strong performance. Things happen along the way, ...
- John Lundberg: Why You Should Read Mahmoud Darwish (HuffingtonPost)
When renowned novelist Ahdaf Soueif said that the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was "the last poet who could fill a football stadium," it wasn't hyperbole....
- Even After a War With Russia, Many Georgians Revere Stalin - Star News Online
GORI, Georgia — With his signature mustache, medal-encrusted Soviet marshal’s uniform and determination to be addressed as “Comrade,” the Stalin impersonator Jamil Ziyadaliev should perhaps be out of work in Georgia, a country still reeling ...
- Teen poet's grief moves PM's wife to tears - The Australian
Teen poet's grief moves PM's wife to tearsThe Australian, Australia - 2 hours ago"I love to read. It gives me enormous joy to hear (of) these youngsters learning to write and, of course, being able to read, themselves," she said. ...
- Vortex of visual Texas poetry (Denton Record-Chronicle)
November Devil looks like a natural coincidence, a simple act of God frozen in a bronze tornado.
- Paperback choice - Daily Telegraph
According to Richard Ford, short stories are 'daring little instruments': they 'leave out a lot of life and try to make us not worry about it'. One tends to associate American writers with spaciousness rather than concision, but this bumper ...
- Beauty and the Bleak - RedOrbit
Beauty and the BleakRedOrbit, TX - 58 minutes agoThe text includes excerpts from the traditional Requiem Mass as well as contemporary poetry. I reached Willcocks at his London home by phone. ...
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale (The Star)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India's Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away.
- Broadcaster's road-trip approach to Canadian content is proving to be ... - Toronto Star
Two weeks ago, radio like this didn't exist anywhere in the world. With the exception of a five-hour slab of classical music in the middle of the work day, the revamped CBC Radio 2 sounds like a road trip across the country, with random layovers in ...
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