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- Angelou celebrating 80th birthday in Atlanta - Ledger-Enquirer
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- Robert Rauschenberg: Restlessly experimental artist whose career was a celebration of change (Independent)
"I was the 'charlatan' of the art world. Then, when I had enough work amassed, I became a 'satirist' – a tricky word – of the art world, then 'fine artist', but who could live with it? And now, 'We like your old things better'," said Robert Rauschenberg in 1972.
- Book of Stanley, Odori nominated for Alberta fiction prize - CBC.ca
Book of Stanley, Odori nominated for Alberta fiction prizeCBC.ca, Canada - 7 hours agoThe Writers Guild of Alberta announced nominations for awards in fiction, children's literature, poetry and non-fiction on Tuesday. ...
- Ten lessons learned from Bartleby’s poetry slam - Retriever
Ten lessons learned from Bartleby’s poetry slamRetriever, MD - 2 hours agoYour inside jokes aren’t as funny to people you don’t know. Staging those jokes before an audience, then, is a tad awkward. 9.) Poetry is an extended ...
- He wants 'coolest arty hangout in the world'
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Woody hopes the stage will also host a bit of underground theater and poetry slams. Indeed, April 4 at Love and Reason is the tentative debut for former Skippy's Mistake bar owner George "Skippy" Brown, who at long last will confess that he is a poet.
- City/area digest (Columbus Telegram)
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- A changing Cuba - CMU The Tartan Online
A changing CubaCMU The Tartan Online, PA - 2 minutes agoAfterward, a Cuban writer read poetry that he had been working on in the last few weeks. Then, after a quick break, a Cuban salsa band played. ...
- Thomas revival proves death has no dominion (Independent)
"And death shall have no dominion", wrote Dylan Thomas in September 1936 in one of his most famous remarks on the eternal nature of the human spirit.
- Co-founder suspends book awards support - Denver Post
Co-founder suspends book awards supportDenver Post, CO - Feb 25, 2008Nominated authors, in categories from romance fiction to poetry, included Stephen King, Al Gore and JK Rowling. But few readers voted, and sales did not ...
- Striking work by local writers marks National Poetry Month - Seattle Times
Striking work by local writers marks National Poetry MonthSeattle Times, United States - 37 minutes agoTwo deal with humble details of daily life: an awkward sidewalk encounter (JW Marshall's "This Is a Crime Watch Neighborhood"), a move into a house in need ...
- When Appearances Aren’t What They Seem - New York Times
When Appearances Aren’t What They SeemNew York Times, United States - 5 hours agoHe is a literate man who writes poetry, characteristics so unusual in his environment that a co-worker nicknames him Shakespeare. ...
- The Chronicle Local News Blog
San Francisco Gate - And if highway construction zones don't inspire poetry, what does? Details are available at the Slow for the Cone Zone website ... Is the prospect of paying 25 cents more per ride going to force you to Muni, even on a dark and stormy day? Let's hear your ...
- The fiction factory foreman - The Age
The AgeThe fiction factory foremanThe Age, Australia - 16 hours agoHe started reading during long nights working at a mental hospital while a student: "I didn't read bestsellers at all; it was all plays, poetry, Jean Genet. ...
- The Larkin Principle at work - Daily Telegraph
There was a time, less than a generation ago, when family secrets, especially about sex, were kept under wraps, and writers addressed them, if at all, obliquely, through poetry or fiction. Since then, first biography, then autobiography, have opened ...
- Gig, by Simon Armitage (Independent)
'When you told people in Huddersfield you were a poet didn't you get your head kicked in?" This question, punted at Simon Armitage, by a character called Spaz, occurred at a book signing in New Zealand. Spaz hails from Burnley, which adds a little more side-swipe to the cultural collision. However, life on the road for a performing poet like Armitage, more often than not, leads to ...
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