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- Backstage Pass: - Meridian Star
SCOOBA – The Sucarnochee Revue is coming to East Mississippi Community College on Friday, July 18. The Revue, a celebration of musicians from the Black Belt region of Mississippi and Alabama, played to a sell-out crowd last summer during its first ...
- Song of myself - The National
Song of myselfThe National, United Arab Emirates - 1 hour agoCourtesy Ostkreuz Robyn Creswell wonders if the enfant terrible of Arab poetry is now content to dispense hollow verities. Conversations with My Father, ...
- Writers pick up pens to protest 42-day detentions - Washington Post
LONDON -- Dozens of renowned British writers came out against new anti-terrorism legislation Sunday, publishing a collection of satire, essays, fiction and poetry to protest a proposal allowing police to hold suspects without charge for up to 42 days ...
- Out and About: Aug. 13 - 24 - West Bridgewater Times
Out and About: Aug. 13 - 24West Bridgewater Times, MA - 1 hour agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- African-American series character is a role model for black girls - News-Democrat
In his mind, Derrick Barnes is already casting the film version of his new children's books. Will Smith's daughter, Willow, currently appearing in "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," would play the lead, Ruby Marigold Booker. (But only if she can sing ...
- Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida delivers a poetic solo effort with ... - Newsday
Raine Maida is a poet at heart. Where that poetry fits into his music has finally come into focus. Maida, frontman of Canadian alt-rockers Our Lady Peace, has ventured out on an introspective solo disc, "The Hunter's Lullaby," engaging his love of ...
- Wisdom Like a Flower Bed: Sa'di's 'Gulistan' (The New York Sun)
Common sense is probably the last thing we want or expect from poets. Give us confessions, prophecies, manifestos, but spare us the advice — especially advice in verse. The poet should be a firebrand, not some mumbling old uncle. And yet, it wasn't always thus. In older cultures, not only in Greece and Rome but in India, Persia, and China, the poet was often seen less as a visionary than as a ...
- Local artists battle in monthly show - Chabot Spectator
Local artists battle in monthly showChabot Spectator - 1 hour agoThe show has an usual formula consisting of a poetry slams, dirt haiku battles, freestyle battles, and a headliner. Due to the impromptu theatrics and ...
- Pupils get poetic - Swindon Advertiser
Pupils get poeticSwindon Advertiser, UK - 7 hours agoNorth Star Nursery tots described their favourite people and toys in verse for the competition – My First Poem. And all 18 of the three and four year olds ...
- Turner takes a wider view (Otago Daily Times)
Poet, writer, angler, conservationist . . . Brian Turner's new book, Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany , gets to the heart of matters, writes Shane Gilchrist.
- The secret love of Ford Madox Brown - Times Online
The secret love of Ford Madox BrownTimes Online, UK - 52 minutes ago“Mathilde works in her lodgings all the early part of the day and walks here usually by 4 or 5 and then reads us what she may have done – or else poetry of ...
- Urgent bonding sparks everything - Louisiana Weekly
Except for a few cynics and recluses, all people crave intimate ties to at least someone. In defining us as "social animals," philosophers and sociologists invariably start from the standpoint of the family. Where it is absent, even gangs become ...
- A story of love and books in Bohemian New Orleans - Seattle Times
Louise Webb spent nearly two decades selling watercolors in New Orleans' French Quarter to support her and her husband's publishing business. One journalist said she looked like a gypsy with her billowing skirts, berets and cowboy boots, so she ...
- Red Sox Nation feels Yastrzemski's pain (Yahoo! Sports)
Hall-of-Famer came through triple-bypass surgery OK, to the relief of fans who remember his Triple Crown in 1967.
- Legacy of NC's Black Mountain College continues - The Associated Press
Legacy of NC's Black Mountain College continuesThe Associated Press - 9 hours agoThe weekend celebration will feature poetry readings, musical and dance performances and an art show where Black Mountain College-inspired work will be ...
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