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- Tamsin Rothschild: Poetry Is (Anything But) Dead... (HuffingtonPost)
Having just published my first book of poetry, it is incredible to me that after a couple of days at the Book Expo America they tell me that poetry is dead.
- Saturday's Best Bets (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
A New Reading Deal
- Bevan plaque for NHS anniversary (BBC News)
A plaque is unveiled in NHS founder Aneurin Bevan's constituency to mark the health service's 60th birthday.
- Horror, Old and New - LubbockOnline.com
LubbockOnline.comHorror, Old and NewLubbockOnline.com, TX - 3 hours agoA story about LA’s gangs, lead by a teen girl, taking on the LAPD sounds like something that’d have something to say about racial politics, cop culture, ...
- Who Is the Greatest Modern-Day Thinker? - New York Times Blogs
I go to the University of Richmond, which requires [us] to take a class called Core, where we read famous historical books. ( Gandhi , Marx , Plato , Augustine , just to name a few). Anyway, my question for you is: Who do you think is the greatest ...
- To have an event listed, s... - Akron Beacon Journal
To have an event listed, s...Akron Beacon Journal, OH - 1 hour agoFeaturing poetry by Kent State University professor Maj Ragain, David Hassler and students of KSU's WICK Outreach Poetry Program, Merle Mollenkoff, ...
- John Fowles: the French Lieutenant author’s secret woman - Times Online
A secret cache of love letters reveal how John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, reenacted his epic story of forbidden passion with a young student. More than 20 years after he introduced unabashed sexuality to the modern literary ...
- SUMMER READING - South China Morning Post
I'm taking notes for a novel. This is a period when I read a lot. When I get deeper into writing my novel, I'll probably end up reading less. I read Old School (Knopf) by Tobias Wolff. I liked it a lot. I'm reading a short collection called Lucky ...
- Working out the kinks - Florida Times-Union
Working out the kinksFlorida Times-Union, FL - 1 hour agoThe venue has hosted everything from concerts, beer pong tournaments and burlesque shows to poetry slams and church services. Over the years, the coffee ...
- Celebrate writer James Reaney dies - Stratford Gazette
Celebrate writer James Reaney diesStratford Gazette, Canada - 20 minutes agoFormer students and colleagues were quoted in a published report Friday calling the death a very sad loss for Canadian poetry and theatre. ...
- Canadian poet and playwright James Reaney dies at 81 - CBC News
James Reaney, a poet, author and dramatist of three famous plays about Ontario's feuding Donnelly family, has died. He was 81. Reaney died Wednesday in London, Ont., after a long illness. Reaney won the Governor General's Award for poetry three times ...
- Dealing with a name-dropper - Times Online
The devil ruled the woman. It is quite possible that some of you pine for rhyme and lines that scan, so this week's column should temporarily quell the pangs. I found my copy of Burns's poetry in a second-hand bookshop. Books demand to be pored over ...
- Yeats provides reliably glorious flourish - The Independent
If only everything in life were as reliable. Not, admittedly, the sort of observation generally prompted by a thoroughbred – except, perhaps, among those who feverishly presume that every vagary in equine performance reflects the cynical ...
- Lord Byron - guardian.co.uk
Lord Byronguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoVirginia Woolf, "much impressed" by the "extreme badness" of his poetry, admitted he had "force". Eliot concurred that "he added nothing to the language... ...
- Rock and roll and the underdog - Zimbabwe Guardian
Rock and roll and the underdogZimbabwe Guardian, UK - 34 minutes agoRemember Teen Angel by Mark Dinning in 1960? Now, that would be a good song to play at the funeral of some kid today who has died of Aids or the victim of a ...
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