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- Poetry Beneath The 'Senselessness' - NPR News
NPR.org , July 25, 2008 · There's a bracing pessimism coursing throughout Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness. Like a world-weary private investigator setting his rich client straight, the novel confronts one of the comfortable West's cherished ...
- Ahmed Faraz: poet of love and defiance - Daily Times
Ahmed Faraz: poet of love and defianceDaily Times, Pakistan - 1 hour agoMore of his poetry is remembered and recited by his admirers in his own country, in India and wherever Urdu is loved and spoken, than that of any other poet ...
- Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 - The Associated Press
The Associated PressLesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87The Associated Press - 43 minutes ago... overturn California's ban on gay marriage in May. The Daughters of Bilitis was named after book of lesbian erotic poetry first published in Paris in 1894.
- Web 'zine gives teen girls their say, connects voices from around ... - The Windy Citizen
Web 'zine gives teen girls their say, connects voices from around ...The Windy Citizen, IL - 1 hour agoShe wrote: "Being a woman of color, it saddens me that African American women account for so much of the prison population ... Prisons don't make problems ...
- The places our hearts call home (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Minnesota writers Bill Holm and Freya Manfred will lead an evening of poetry, music and conversation about sense of place.
- ‘Dark Night’ reinvents a film genre (The Sudbury Star)
“THE DARK KNIGHT” 4 stars, SilverCity Batman” isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about. That’s because of the performances, because of [...]
- The works of artist Tom Ekkens on display at Salada Beach Caf - Pacifica Tribune
Artist, photographer, musician, singer, songwriter, poet and Pacifican Tom Ekkens, who also has a day job as an engineering designer working on the new Oakland Bay Bridge, is having an art and photography one man show at the Salada Beach Caf from ...
- Arts Commission awards annual medals - WRAL
Raleigh, N.C. — The Raleigh Arts Commission named six winners of the annual medal of arts Friday. The Raleigh Medal of Arts honors individuals and organizations for long-term achievement in and support of local arts. The program is in its 24th year ...
- Weston's Auction Gallery - Antiques and Arts Weekly
Antiques and Arts WeeklyWeston's Auction GalleryAntiques and Arts Weekly, CT - 13 hours agoEPHEMERA: African American tintypes; small stamp collection; folio of 1938 Essex, CT hurricane photos; 1898 Atlas of CT; collection of postcards; ...
- Bold girls don’t get men – do they? - Trinity News
Bold girls don’t get men – do they?Trinity News, Ireland - 6 hours agoIt sounds like crap romantic poetry doesn’t it? But I tell you, she’sa bit of a siren. Point made. In Harris, however, she was withdrawn. ...
- Found: Lost musician (Prairie Public Broadcasting)
Critical acclaim comes 38 years after folk artist Sixto Diaz Rodriguez released his album "Cold Fact."
- Silly for 'Billy' - Daily Freeman
Not since the heyday of the '80s British musical invasion - which brought "Cats," "The Phantom of Opera" and "Les Miserables" - has Broadway anticipated such a big, critically lauded musical from across the Atlantic as "Billy Elliot." It's the show ...
- Mad Men: Don Draper's meditations - Nationalpost.com
AMC's buzzed-about drama Mad Men launched its second season last night. Aside from the attention to detail, clever writing and sharp acting, one of the things that stands out about the series, and makes it sing, is its attention to literature. The ...
- Christopher, Poet of Order - PC The Cowl (subscription)
Christopher, Poet of OrderPC The Cowl (subscription), RI - 11 hours agoOne was an anarchist who claimed that poetry and chaos were the mutually inclusive characteristics of a true artist. He was challenged by a poet of order, ...
- Strong, independent woman devoted her life to her family (The Fayetteville Observer)
Strength and devotion defined Margaret Davis. “She was a very independent, strong, self-sufficient woman,” daughter Deborah Davis said. Devoted to her husband and fiercely protective of their four children, part of it stemmed from values learned growing up on a tobacco farm in Clarksville, Tenn.
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