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- Cedar Rapids native reads his 'Letters from Abu Ghraib' - Daily Iowan
It sounds like the world's oldest set up to some awful joke: What's the difference between President Bush and Joshua Casteel? But the answer helped set in motion a series of events culminating in Casteel's book, Letters from Abu Ghraib, ironically ...
- ARTS 3:15 p.m. — Sinangån-ta Poetry Slam this Saturday (Pacific Daily News)
3:15 p.m., Sept. 25 — The Sinangån-ta Poetry Slam will be held Saturday at the Pacific Trading Club at the Agana Shopping Center. The doors and sign up will open at 6 p.m., and the show will start at 7 p.m. There is a $100 cash prize for the winner.
- Renowned poet accepts AUM fellowship - Montgomery Advertiser
Renowned poet accepts AUM fellowshipMontgomery Advertiser, AL - 13 hours agoDoty, author of six books of poems, is the only American poet to have won Great Britain’s TS Eliot Prize. His third collection, published in 1993, ...
- Leipzig String Quartet: Seriously deluxe - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunLeipzig String Quartet: Seriously deluxeVancouver Sun, Canada - 52 minutes agoIn this piece he strongly underplayed the liturgical aspect, allying it less with ritual than poetry. Brahms may have preferred two pianists, as we heard it ...
- In praise of the north - Guardian Unlimited
Tennyson wrote that "bright and fierce and fickle is the South/And dark and true and tender is the North". I'm not sure whether the rightwing wonks at the Policy Exchange thinktank are any brighter or fiercer than we northerners but they are ...
- Norman Lear, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman (International Herald Tribune)
A roundup of the day's celebrity news.
- Theatre: Endurance test of trite truisms and terminal tedium - Tribune
Theatre: Endurance test of trite truisms and terminal tediumTribune, UK - 2 hours agoSo although Walker’s text is still shot through with thrilling moments of dirty poetry, these gems are buried under a dump of ordure. ...
- ArtsAlive begins with a mime time - Kent Good Times Dispatch
ArtsAlive begins with a mime timeKent Good Times Dispatch, CT - 2 hours ago"You can tell that poem was written a while ago," Mr. Zucker told his audience, "because words change and fall out of favor." He said he was going to go ...
- Singer Anne Hills at St. Charles celebration - Chicago Daily Herald
Singer Anne Hills at St. Charles celebrationChicago Daily Herald, IL - 2 hours agoHer poetic work won her second place in the Atlanta Review's 1999 International Poetry Contest. She and Tom Paxton released a duet recording, ...
- Celebrate Family Day at Longfellow Historic Site - Cambridge Chronicle
Celebrate Family Day at Longfellow Historic SiteCambridge Chronicle, MA - 42 minutes agoThe New England Poet Club presents Family Day at Longfellow National Historic Site, including poetry readings and an awards ceremony for student poets, ...
- Islamic outreach: CU's Muslim Student Association celebrates culture, diversity Friday (Colorado Daily)
Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, has ended -- and now it's time to celebrate. Last week's Muslim holiday Eid ul-Fitr signified the end of the 30-day fast, and the beginning of a three-day celebration.
- Mahmoud Darwish leaves behind legacy of political, nonpartisan poetry - Lebanon Daily Star
GAZA CITY: In the death of poet Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine has lost a voice. It was a voice that carried into the hearts of Palestinians, and far across the world. His poems were translated into 22 languages, including Hebrew. Darwish, who died 40 ...
- Prince of Poets TV show grand finale tomorrow - ArabianBusiness.com (press release)
Prince of Poets TV show grand finale tomorrowArabianBusiness.com (press release), United Arab Emirates - 13 hours agoEach of the five remaining contestants will then recite one final poem about their journey on Prince of Poets and after one last improvised poetry challenge ...
- Hell Hath No Fury - The INDsider
Hell Hath No FuryThe INDsider, LA - 2 hours agoThe main attraction — Hellboy himself — becomes an also-ran, and his signature sass seems adrift in the romance and poetry of Del Toro’s larger vision. ...
- "Rent" finale coming to area theaters - MLive.com
Some Flint-area theaters will show a special program, "Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway," about the New York closing of the landmark stage musical this month. The 165-minute Sony Pictures program is slated for screenings Sept. 24-25 and 27-28 at ...
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