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- Elizabeth Edwards - Chicago Tribune
Give props to Gil Scott-Heron for the cutting-edge topicality of his best street poetry and jazz-inflected R&B over the last four decades, and the activist performer will accept the compliment graciously, albeit with reservations.
- For real romance, forgo film, take page from the masters - Chicago Tribune
For real romance, forgo film, take page from the mastersChicago Tribune, United States - 5 minutes agoWhile you're at it, you might want to read some love poetry. If you're married, there's nothing like the most amorous love poem in all of creation, ...
- Debuts fly high but unsteadily - Globe and Mail
By Katia Grubisic Goose Lane, 85 pages, $17.95 DAUGHTERS OF MEN By Brenda Leifso Brick Books, 119 pages, $18 If poetry eases the anguish of the actual, this trio of high-flying yet uneven débuts may satisfy readers seeking solace in the (sometimes ...
- Around Town - Prague Post
Around TownPrague Post, Czech Republic - 1 hour agoThe new Revue offers 223 pages of poetry, short stories, plays, essays and reviews, and for anyone missing American ghettoes, some particularly bleak ...
- Views:Black Pride parties to a different beat - Windy City Times
Views:Black Pride parties to a different beatWindy City Times, IL - 4 hours agoSunday gospel brunches, Saturday night poetry slams, Friday fashion shows, bid whist tournaments, house parties, soul food, Caribbean cuisine and beautiful ...
- "Hardheaded Weather": Desires unmet across the great racial divide (Seattle Times)
In "Hardheaded Weather," poet Cornelius Eady vividly explores issues of racial division in American life.
- Muldoon and Rodgers receive Behrman Award - Princeton University
Muldoon and Rodgers receive Behrman AwardPrinceton University, NJ - 1 hour ago... a professor of creative writing. He also is director of the Princeton Atelier and chair of the Fund for Irish Studies. In addition, he serves as poetry ...
- Literary Circle marks 125 years - Fairmont Sentinel
Fairmont SentinelLiterary Circle marks 125 yearsFairmont Sentinel, MN - 1 hour agoCook has won awards for her poetry since 1977, when she won the Collegiate Poetry Contest for “Lyric†magazine. She later joined the League of Minnesota ...
- Patient photographer studies, waits, shoots (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Not many tourists to Mackinac Island see it cloaked in winter white, but now they can take in the scenery in all its four-season splendor thanks to Traverse City photographer Terry Phipps.
- In Box: Epiphanies: Elie Wiesel - Foreign Policy (subscription)
Foreign Policy (subscription)In Box: Epiphanies: Elie WieselForeign Policy (subscription) - 6 hours agoI believe in the power of poetry, and yet in those places of malediction, a simple soldier once had the power to kill a thousand poets with no one ...
- Mrs Blair, the secrets of her bedchamber and a masterclass in utter ... - Daily Mail
You might spare a moment this week to write a note of sympathy to Tony Blair. His wife's memoirs are being serialised and they transcend parody. Surely, not even the sponsor of the Iraq war, ringmaster of so many domestic disasters, employer of ...
- Video: Sue shows how to fill Little Rhubarb Angel Cakes (Park Rapids Enterprise)
Click on the play button to start the video. Adobe Flash Player 9 is required to view video in full screen mode. 05/28/2008 Third graders, Ally Vaudrin and Tatum Mercer recited the poem “Ickkle me, pickle me, tickle me, too,†during the poetry extravaganza in Coral Schmitz’s class recently.
- Critic's Choice for the week of January 28-February 3, 2004 (East Bay Express)
If you find most pop-punk lyrics too dull and unimaginative, try "He whipped my ass in tennis/So I fucked his ass in bed" on for size. Indeed, it could only be the Pansy Division , famed out-and- really -proud Green Day coconspirators with a new album, Total Entertainment!
- Remember when: Horse-drawn fire engine quite a sight (Vero Press Journal)
I can remember seeing a fire engine being pulled by a team of horses on the way to a fire! I was a toddler and on our porch when I heard the clatter of hooves and the clang clang of the engine.
- Finding challenge in verse - Maroondah Leader
Maroondah LeaderFinding challenge in verseMaroondah Leader, Australia - Jul 18, 2008She will often find herself sitting in front of her laptop in her quiet Eltham study with a perfectly formed idea for the shape of a poem, but little idea ...
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