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- StageQ's "Sappho" languishes in the land of cliché - Wisconsin State Journal
StageQ's "Sappho" languishes in the land of clichéWisconsin State JournalAs Artemis, Leonie Dolch is a bit stiff, but she's endearing when she clumsily recites love poetry. And it's not her fault the script is bland. ...
- The Doors in an Unusual Hue - Wall Street Journal
The Doors in an Unusual HueWall Street Journal"They understood the musical references, the jazz, and Morrison's poetry." But four shows over two nights would be a test for Morrison, whose addiction to ...
- That’s the power of love: Irsay, Indy in tune for title - Register-Guard
MIAMI — Anyone who remembers the father would barely recognize the son. The late Robert Irsay was a bully, loud and meddlesome to a fault. Those qualities made him one of the NFL’s more inept owners and arguably its most reviled. By comparison ...
- Poets to help audience step into history at First Friday lecture in Port Townsend - Peninsula Daily
Poets to help audience step into history at First Friday lecture in Port TownsendPeninsula DailyMike O'Connor, left, and Gary Copeland Lilley, both internationally known poets who live in Port Townsend, will read their poetry and discuss its ...
- Fiction finalists: NBCC awards - phillyBurbs.com
Fiction finalists: NBCC awardsphillyBurbs.comThe National Book Critics Circle just released the finalists in all categories including fiction, poetry , autobiography, criticism, biography and ...
- Recognition of Female Prose & Poetry Past and Present Literary Figures Event - Buffalo Rising (blog)
Recognition of Female Prose & Poetry Past and Present Literary Figures EventBuffalo Rising (blog)This is a special event that kicks off Women's Month of March. The program is to recognize female poets and writers of the past and present literary figures ...
- Conversation Piece - Publishers Weekly
Conversation PiecePublishers WeeklyBut as mortifying as it was to have just assaulted one of the publishing world's great wordsmiths with a foul sentence, that mangled e-mail turned out to be ...
- Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln - PopMatters
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham LincolnPopMattersStauffer's intertwining of Douglass and Lincoln seems like a natural pairing: two like-minded intellectuals with a shared love of poetry and the fables of ...
- Basia Bulat opens up on Heart of my Own - Metronews.ca
... that have the ability to say so many things in such a short space. (It amazes me when) a writer can use a few lines to open up worlds.†Written during a leave of absence from her Master’s thesis in English, Heart of My Own reflects a love of ...
- Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky: review - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukMolotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky: reviewTelegraph.co.ukAs Polonsky travels in widening circles away from Moscow, down to Taganrog in the south, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk in the north, she encounters the dark side ...
- Apartheid foe Brutus dead at 85 - News-Leader.com
New York -- South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country's racist system, has died. He was 85. Brutus' publisher, Chicago-based ...
- Seven global musicians make melody without boundaries - South Asia Mail
Seven global musicians make melody without boundariesSouth Asia MailHe is one of the few poets to have composed poetry in different meters, along with Amir Khusro, whose Persian poetry is punctuated with Urdu verses," the ...and more »
- Luci Therrien spring performance agenda: - Fosters Daily Democrat
... Portsmuth Atheneum, 9 ... McArthur Library, Concert & "Dual Citizen" Book Reading, 270 Main St., Biddeford, Maine, sleaheymcarthur.lib.me.us. 4/23, 11 a.m., Jazzmouth, poetry recitation, Breaking New Grounds, Market Square, Portsmouth. 4/26-5/
- Comment: Political analogy behind the mastery & mystery of Black Stars - Joy Online
Joy OnlineComment: Political analogy behind the mastery & mystery of Black StarsJoy Online... or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep so well that all will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. The Black Stars ...and more »
- Upcoming Schedule Announced for PoetsWednesday at The Barron Arts Center - myCentralJersy.com
Upcoming Schedule Announced for PoetsWednesday at The Barron Arts CentermyCentralJersy.comIn addition, PoetsWednesday will be offering Poetry Workshops at 7:00-8:00pm, to be followed by the scheduled PoetsWednesday readings. ...
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