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- Poetry: 'Ode to an Urn of Red Roses' - San Antonio Express
Poetry: 'Ode to an Urn of Red Roses'San Antonio ExpressPoetry editor Mary G. Milligan, a private-school librarian, has co-edited two anthologies of Latina literature. Her writing has appeared in Pax, ...
- Words Worth - Indian Express
Words WorthIndian ExpressIf you're a poet and you know it, then take your place on stage at the Friday Poetry Slam at Café Oz in Khan Market. Organised by the Bombay Elektrik ...
- Mary Schmich: Christmas is never just one Christmas - Chicago Tribune
The father of my friend Laura died last Christmas Eve , and for all the grief it brought her family, there was a certain poetry in her father's timing. He was of Icelandic heritage and so Christmas Eve, in accordance with Icelandic custom, had always ...
- Long River Live! presents comedy edition - UConn Daily Campus
Long River Live! presents comedy editionUConn Daily Campus“It's really funny,†said Brittany Dzwonchyk, a 6th-semester psychology major. “The poetry was really good. The reading from the romance book was hysterical ...
- Real Times Media - Michigan Chronicle
“God Is Not An American†is a third collection of memoirs released under jessica Care moore’s publishing house, Moore Black Press, that explores the concept of God, genocide, the rapid depletion of Earth’s resources, race and war. “This ...
- Samarendra Sen Gupta: A touch of surrealism - The Daily Star
Samarendra Sen Gupta is one of the leading contemporary poets in India. He is a prolific poet and his poems are intellectually of outstanding quality. Most of his poems have a great touch of modernity. Recently he visited Dhaka on the occasion of the ...
- "HOWL" loud, but unclear. - IFC (blog)
IFC (blog)"HOWL" loud, but unclear.IFC (blog)... Mark Schorer (Treat Williams) butts against McIntosh's insistence on clarity: "Sir, you cannot translate poetry into prose; that's why it is poetry. ...and more »
- Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus - Red Bluff Daily News
might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but ...
- The Funhouse Reading - ChicagoNow (blog)
The Funhouse ReadingChicagoNow (blog)I asked Matt about Effigy as a zine and he had this to say "Effigy is at heart a poetry zine, with ambitions for the personal and real-world. ...
- In Search of the Jewish People - Hagada Hasmalit
In Search of the Jewish PeopleHagada HasmalitThe famous “Ossian†series of poems glorifying the past of the Scottish Celts was found to be an invention. And even the famous Scottish kilts, ...and more »
- Stretching Dollars at Author’s Fair (The Beach Reporter)
The struggling economy has affected everyone in some way and the 2009 Author Fair at the El Segundo Public Library, which takes place Sunday, June 7, while featuring the traditional book signings, poetry readings and fun stuff for the children, will also include helpful hints for stretching that well-earned dollar.
- The Naked and the Conflicted - New York Times
The Naked and the ConflictedNew York TimesBut that was Updike's unnerving gift: to be frank and aestheticizing all at once, to do poetry and whorehouse. In “Couples,†a graphic description of oral ...
- Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' wins fiction prize in NYC - Merced Sun-Star
Saffron Walden ReporterMantel's 'Wolf Hall' wins fiction prize in NYCMerced Sun-StarHolmes was cited for his highly regarded study of the crossed stars of science and poetry, "The Age of Wonder." Blake Bailey's "Cheever: A Life," a thorough ...Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' wins fiction prize in NYCSan Luis Obispo Tribuneall 112 news articles »
- Closing the book on 2009 - New Orleans Times-Picayune
So many books, so little time, as the saying goes. 2009 was a year with plenty of books to read, places to go and people to see. Here are some of the highlights: Festivals were bigger and better than ever this year, particularly the Louisiana Book ...
- 'Pirates' set to storm the stage at Union College - Lincoln Journal Star
'Pirates' set to storm the stage at Union CollegeLincoln Journal StarThis year, he will release his first collection of kids' poetry, "To the Ledge at the Edge of the Universe." He also plans to record a sixth album, ...and more »
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