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- Top poet aims for brevity, ephemeral substance (Seattle Times)
More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle...
- Beck shares his Modern Guilt - National Post
National PostBeck shares his Modern GuiltNational Post, Canada - 4 hours agoAs usual, there's a certain broken poetry to his words, but like the title would suggest, the mood on the album leaves an anxious pit in one's stomach. ...
- About the Author - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
About the AuthorChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 57 minutes agoPainting’s Edge clarified for me that we live in a time when painting’s true sister is, once again, poetry—not because of any similarity in the mediums ...
- West Lake, Buzzing Hangzhou’s Centre Of Calm (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
Located 150km South of Shanghai, China, fabled Hangzhou has been so celebrated in history, art and folklore that from a thousand years ago a picture of the city’s vast West Lake has remained in the Chinese collective consciousness, symbolising a place of unparalleled, serene beauty and calm.
- Christ : A Crisis in the Life of God (BellaOnline)
A guest review of this controversial book.
- Poets slam down their rhymes in Brink Lounge bout - Wisconsin State Journal
Their words didn't float down out of the rafters and land on our shoulders. Instead, they slapped listeners across the face and begged for an explanation. This wasn't a flowery, Shakespearean sonnet exhibition with pentameters and rhymes and ...
- To the Memory of an Amiable Child - New York Times Blogs
New York Times BlogsTo the Memory of an Amiable ChildNew York Times Blogs, NY - 40 minutes ago... and perhaps the only single-person private grave on city-owned land in New York City, and it has inspired a book of poetry and a contemporary mystery ...
- Visual Arts Pavilion offers diversity of form and theme - Metro
MetroVisual Arts Pavilion offers diversity of form and themeMetro, UK - 7 hours agoby HUW DAVID JONES - Tuesday, August 5, 2008 Although first and foremost a festival of music and poetry, the National Eisteddfod Of Wales has a strong ...
- New management at Artspace evicting many residents (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Tim Larsen fell in love with his home in the Artspace Bridge Projects after he moved in seven years ago. As a musician, he liked talking shop with other artists, and he enjoyed being part of what felt like a "small town in a big city" on the corner of 500 West and 200 South in Salt Lake City.
- Cardboard Synthesizers Look as Cool as your Software Synths Sound - Wired
We're not the only ones who love the look of analog synthesizers, with their patch cables, oscillators, filters and other old school controls. But when it comes to convenience or even sound quality, they've been left far behind by modern synthesizers ...
- Say You’re One of Them - Financial Times
Say You’re One of Them By Uwem Akpan Abacus £11.99, 304 pages FT Bookshop , price: £9.59 Selling your child or nephew could be more difficult than selling other kids,†is the chilling opening line of Uwem Akpan’s short story “ Fattening for ...
- Solo Conor Oberst delivers no different - Calgary Herald
Calgary HeraldSolo Conor Oberst delivers no differentCalgary Herald, Canada - 27 minutes agoBut there's no doubting Oberst's skill for pouring deep wells of poetry, sadness and wanderlust into memorable melodies. Recorded with a group of friends in ...
- Nas's Untitled (The Village Voice)
Controversy is clearly Nas's best friend. The lively debate stirred up by 2006's Hip Hop Is Dead was trumped many times over by his year-long proclamation that his next offering would be named Nigger . Wal-Mart, unsurprisingly, didn't love that idea. So what hits shelves this week is si...
- THIS ABOVE ALL - Tribune
S ad news from Pakistan. Ahmed Faraz is dying or dead. He was, or is, the leading Urdu poet of his time and drew large crowds of poetry lovers in Pakistan and India in mushairas . I had the privilege of spending many evenings with him when I was in ...
- What Is Happening Today On Gather - Tuesday June 10 2008 - Gather.com
Gather.comWhat Is Happening Today On Gather - Tuesday June 10 2008Gather.com, MA - 4 hours agoSharon K. author of "Poise Select Poems" Has published a few pieces of her poetry on gather. I loved them and I think you will as well. ...
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