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- Poetry gives look at prisoners' lives - OSU - The Lantern
Poetry gives look at prisoners' livesOSU - The Lantern, OH - 12 minutes ago"These are poems from real people, sharing their frustrations, grief and despair," said Mike Brickner, communications coordinator for the American Civil ...
- Rawi Hage and the practiced art of imagined proximity - Lebanon Daily Star
BEIRUT: When Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel "De Niro's Game," he hoped it would bring his novel a wider audience. The response to his winning the prize has so far well exceeded ...
- 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 ...
- 'Skins' becomes likable over time - Anniston Star
Skins, a dramedy beginning tonight on BBC America, starts disagreeably, with a surfeit of self-protective cool. But it becomes more likable over ensuing episodes, as the pace relaxes and the focus turns toward more sympathetic and interesting ...
- EDITORIAL: Celebrate the real superstars - MyTown Bay of Plenty
EDITORIAL: Celebrate the real superstarsMyTown Bay of Plenty, New Zealand - 2 hours agoMany of those who have made today's Queen's Birthday Honours list tend to have that delightful and refreshing characteristic in common: Humility. ...
- Wakefield all-in-one fest - Calgary Herald
Big cities have their book festivals, film festivals, music festivals. The village of Wakefield is going one better, hosting the inaugural WakeFest, which wraps it all up in one multi-arts event. Supported by fundraisers and local businesses, the ...
- Two poetry books for children, one new, one a classic (Portsmouth Herald)
My Bent Tree
- Literary magazines: grotesque and Gaitskill - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesLiterary magazines: grotesque and GaitskillLos Angeles Times, CA - 5 hours agoThe audio of Shamim Azad reading poetry in Bengali is rather lovely, but otherwise, the website is a bit of a tease. Front Porch Journal, from the Texas ...
- Winehouse lyrics used in Cambridge uni exam - West Online
Cambridge University students have been asked to compare the lyrics of Amy Winehouse with the poetry of Sir Walter Ralegh in a final year exam paper. Those taking the Practical Criticism paper were given a sheet containing the singer's words to her ...
- Woman’s Will Stages Brecht’s ‘Good Person of Szechuan’ - Berkeley Daily Planet
Woman’s Will Stages Brecht’s ‘Good Person of Szechuan’Berkeley Daily Planet, CA - 1 hour agoIn fact, his praise of classical poetry was not of its venerable antiquity, the admiration of past ages, but its freshness. Virgil and Ovid, he said, ...
- A Letter to True (Guardian Unlimited)
It's a camp and whimsical exercise, but amusing, affectionate and often moving
- Allan Ahlberg: 'The fun thing is still making the book' - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukAllan Ahlberg: 'The fun thing is still making the book'Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoThis, he points out, is his most remarkable sales statistic, since it is poetry - not the fact that the Jolly Postman picturebook and its two sequels sold ...
- The diarist - The National
The diaristThe National, United Arab Emirates - 2 hours agoThe intervening years have seen not only new, more aggressively innovative voices in the novel and the prose poem, but also greater press freedom in Egypt ...
- Walk the line - hotpress.com (subscription)
Walk the linehotpress.com (subscription), Ireland - 58 minutes ago“I did not see the poetry of the towers at first,” he tells me. “But I was so attracted by the audacity, the notion of building something so impossible. ...
- Searching for Hollywood? It's closer than you think (Las Cruces Sun-News)
LAS CRUCES —It was a very big week for Cruceswood, aka Hollywood on the Rio Grande. It started with a private screening of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" May 22 at Telshor 12, many hours before the "official" movie opening.
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