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- 'Two Rivers' Blends Iraqi Music, American Jazz - Hartford Courant
The confluence of Iraq's two major rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, is known as the "cradle of civilization" and the birthplace of writing. Trumpeter-composer Amir ElSaffar has created the "Two Rivers" project, which blends traditional Iraqi ...
- Cafe Visitors See Acting in Full Bloom - RedOrbit
Cafe Visitors See Acting in Full BloomRedOrbit, TX - 1 hour agoAn adaptation of work by early 20th Century Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovski, it is the tale of unrequited love which fuses music, poetry and transvestism. ...
- Writing Nerds - A Conversation About Blogs with Bethlehem Shoals - Blazer's Edge
Writing Nerds - A Conversation About Blogs with Bethlehem ShoalsBlazer's Edge, OR - 1 hour agoComing from a fiction/poetry background rather than a journalism background, that particular criticism of blogging gnaws at me because a lot of good writing ...
- Yesterday, May 18 - South Coast Today
Shooting prompts security review for summertime festivals (10:20 p.m.) Members of Fairhaven post free to march in parade (9:45 p.m.) Fishing boat sinks at dock Kennedy's last official act before seizure was in New Bedford BIG government Two cars ...
- Japan's sea view through the ages, in poetry, prose and plain speaking (The Japan Times)
At Tafushi Cape / Those gracious men of the court / gather seaweed. — "Manyoshu" (7th century) By the Bay of Ami / Lovely maidens board a boat, / their long skirts drenched / by the flowing tide. — Manyoshu Read the full story
- Cicely Nichols, writer/editor, activist, dies at 70 (The Villager)
Cicely Nichols, who came to the Village from her native Seattle as a dancer to join the Robert Joffrey Ballet in the mid-1950s and went on to become a writer/editor and activist, died on April 5 at Cornell Hospital at the age of 70.
- Tales from the outsiders - New Statesman
Tales from the outsidersNew Statesman, UK - 2 hours agoThe ingenious pace and weird poetry of the documentary Between the Ears: Staring at the Wall (7 June, 9.30pm, Radio 3) ruined my evening meal. ...
- CLOSE ENCOUNTERS - Artnet
CLOSE ENCOUNTERSArtnet, NY - 18 minutes agoIS: Yes, it was a great evening at the Bowery Poetry club. Are there any contemporary artists that you have your eye on? CC: A lot. ...
- Big Book Fortnight continues this week - Stourbridge News
Big Book Fortnight continues this weekStourbridge News, UK - 3 hours agoThe event, which kicked off on May 10, has been organised by Black Country Libraries in Partnership (BCLiP) and aims to encourage more people to take up ...
- Callaloo workshop presents four prominent African-American writers - University of Washington
Four faculty members from the 2008 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops will read from their poetry and fiction at 7 p.m. Aug. 6 in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge. The event is free and open to the public. A reception for the authors will ...
- No reason in love - Bennington Banner
No reason in loveBennington Banner, VT - 3 hours agoThe visits were intense and full of poetry recitals and yet more sweet nothings. They would highlight my visits to Boston, as if our presence there could ...
- Farewell, George Garrett (The Hook)
The final chapter in the colorful life of critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and former Virginia Poet Laureate, UVA writing professor George Garrett , was written Sunday night. Seventy-eight-year-old Garrett died at his Rugby Road home “very peacefully,” says his wife, Susan, and surrounded by his family including his three children and two grandchildren. Garrett had been battling ...
- Sudanese Child Solider Trades Guns for Beats - Policy Innovations
Sudanese Child Solider Trades Guns for BeatsPolicy Innovations, NY - 4 hours ago"I liked it because it reminded me of how people used to talk poetry and rap in my village when I was small," Jal recalled of his first encounter with the ...
- Poetry comes alive - Auburn Citizen
Auburn CitizenPoetry comes aliveAuburn Citizen, NY - 2 hours ago“It was funny, and everybody was screaming; I like to scream.” All this week and last Dakos spoke to elementary school students in each of the five ...
- An absolutely Ani performance at Wolf Trap - Inside NoVA
Inside NoVAAn absolutely Ani performance at Wolf TrapInside NoVA, VA - 20 hours agoOver nearly 20 years, 20 albums, 10 official bootlegs, 3 DVDs and a book of poetry, DiFranco managed to sell more than 4 million records under her ...
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