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- Books on the South squeeze Appalachia - Asheville Citizen-Times
Books on the South squeeze AppalachiaAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 10 minutes ago‘Up from the Mines’ (1993), which James Still declared ‘the best book of poetry on coal mining ever written.’†Goode features Jack Weller, a minister noted ...
- Pizarro: Ex-Smash Mouth guitarist ignites an explosive weekend - Silicon Valley
It feels topsy-turvy to have fireworks on the first night of the San Jose America Festival, which kicks off Friday, but there should be plenty of fun activities to last the weekend. It'll be a treat to see Greg Camp , the Santa Cruz guitarist and ...
- Summer literature and arts events in Achill - Mayo Advertiser
Summer literature and arts events in AchillMayo Advertiser, Ireland - 1 hour agoThe Achill Heinrich Böll Association are continuing their series of readings on Thursday evening July 17 with a reading of poetry by Dublin Poet Gerard ...
- A poet well-versed in North Korea's pain (Asia Times)
SEOUL - A former court poet for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has become a best-selling author and media sensation in South Korea, where his poems about the brutality of everyday life in North Korea have now been published for the first time.
- Slam some poetry - Malaysia Star
Slam some poetryMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 5 hours agoAt this month’s KL Poetry Slam, you get the chance to wax lyrical about life’s two certainties (forget taxes!): Death and Dessert. ...
- Park held steady to become the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Open (Sports Illustrated)
You know something about all those Parks and Swedes and teenagers playing in the U.S. Women's Open last week? Each of them took a remarkable journey to get into the field at Interlachen, in suburban Minneapolis. One Swede (Annika Sorenstam) bade farewell to the Open in high style. Another (Helen Alfredsson) finished second and on Monday morning was schlepping around her bags by herself at ...
- Beauty as a liability (Manila Standard Today)
On the second day of school, my daughter Sophia came home gushing at being elected muse of her third grade class. I was pleased to hear this and promptly congratulated her. Any mom would be happy to hear her daughter was adjudged prettiest.
- Playwright’s Festival returns to Telluride - The Daily Planet
Playwright’s Festival returns to TellurideThe Daily Planet, CO - 9 hours agoBy Susan Viebrock Good drama finds poetry in the flotsam and jetsam of our lives. It survives because it extrapolates what is universal and eternal — and ...
- Mike's views on history - Bridlington Today
Mike's views on historyBridlington Today, UK - 4 hours agoMike has also published his collection of poetry, Little Tyke, which views life through the eyes of a Bridlington boy born in the 30s. ...
- 'I’ve always been told I’m too country' - National Post
National Post'I’ve always been told I’m too country'National Post, Canada - 13 minutes agoQ You've had two successful poetry books. Do you differentiate between writing song lyrics and poetry? A I find more original ways of saying things when I ...
- The stickup that shook up Hollywood - Lower Hudson Journal news
The stickup that shook up HollywoodLower Hudson Journal news, NY - Apr 7, 2008It was vital to me that the film be a new American gothic. ... The movie was released into a world where kids were burning draft cards and feeling beset by ...
- About New York The Gift of Prose to Soothe the Traveler - New York Times Blogs
About New York The Gift of Prose to Soothe the TravelerNew York Times Blogs, NY - Jun 24, 2008“A couple of years ago, I visited my friend in New York,†Sabine Bartlet wrote last year to the Poetry Society of America, which helped the agency pick the ...
- A list of exhibits currently on display at area galleries May 22-28 - The Free Lance-Star
A list of exhibits currently on display at area galleries May 22-28The Free Lance-Star, VA - 5 hours agoArts Center in Orange, 129 E. Main St. "Poetry of Color," paintings by John J. Fitzsimmons. Through June 7. 540/672-7311. Atrium Gallery Art Studio, ...
- Kay Ryan To Be Named Poet Laureate (The New York Sun)
Kay Ryan will be named the nation's next poet laureate today by the librarian of Congress, James Billington, the New York Times reported tonight. A Californian, Ms. Ryan, 62, is known for her short, playful poems, for which she has won the 2004 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2001 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and three Pushcart Prizes. Her work ...
- BREATHLESS AND TIMELESS - New York Press-Follow The Leader Blog
BREATHLESS AND TIMELESSNew York Press-Follow The Leader Blog - 50 minutes agoHe progressed from one multi-leveled style of fiction film to a style of cinema poetry. Brody’s book provides a good companion syllabus, but unlike such ...
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