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- Wham bam, thank you Slam - News.com.au
IT'S a novel idea ¿ applying the format of mainstream television contests such as Australian Idol to an underground artform like spoken-word poetry. Hosted in Perth by WritingWA, Australian Poetry Slam ’08 is a battle of the words in which ...
- Lush Life by Richard Price - Times Online
Times OnlineLush Life by Richard PriceTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoThere is also bittersweet romance and poetry out of Walt Whitman, who in his prime was certainly “Of Manhattan the son”. The main character is Eric Cash, ...
- Renew vision for education - San Angelo Standard Times
Renew vision for educationSan Angelo Standard Times, tx - 1 hour agoModern dance, poetry, neighborhood history and other creative subjects round out the school's curriculum. The result: Students do better on tests and ...
- Barbie and the Jews (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
I know Peter Coyote as head of the Jewish Justice League in “Hebrew Hammer.” Not a good movie, but worthy a rental. A more resonant film on Coyote’s resume—also about the American Jewish experience—is “The Tribe.”
- Town tourism: Resident hopes Trails and Sails weekend brings new faces ... - Abington Mariner
Karen Kline likes to walk the streets of the town’s Old Center, just like another poet who lived in North Andover did almost 400 years ago. North Andover poet and iconoclast Karen Kline has hatched some ideas for North Andover tourism built around ...
- Farce on parade (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The latest from Garrison Keillor is classic Lake Wobegon all the way.
- Mapfumo's South Africa tour cancelled - New Zimbabwe.com
New Zimbabwe.comMapfumo's South Africa tour cancelledNew Zimbabwe.com, Zimbabwe - 2 hours agoOrganisers of the 12th Poetry Africa festival being held in Durban said in a statement that Mapfumo’s “asylum status travel documents are not in order”. ...
- SetonnoteS: Man Oh Man - OpEdNews.com
Welcome to SetonnoteS, I’m Tony Seton. In a curious way, the November election is a replay of the 2004 race. Back then it was an issue of macho, with the monosyllabic knuckle-dragging brush-cutter up against the Boston Brahmin. Even though Bush and ...
- Autumn space in the city speakers named - Hampshire Chronicle
Autumn space in the city speakers namedHampshire Chronicle, UK - 13 hours agoSeven days after that, Denise Murphy will give a talk about volunteering, and on November 26, Vicky Darling and Doreen Pearce will focus on poetry. ...
- Film Weekly on the wire and up the terraces - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukFilm Weekly on the wire and up the terracesguardian.co.uk, UK - 9 minutes agoThe film itself is about beauty, poetry, cunning, a city's folklore and human folly, with the ghosts of the twin towers' eventual fate casting a spectral ...
- 'Still Alive! A Temporary Condition' by Herbert Gold - Los Angeles Times
If America had the literary culture it ought to have, every city would have a writer like Herbert Gold. They would be rooted rather than regional. Their sensibility would be cosmopolitan rather than provincial, though their focus would be voluntarily ...
- Palestinians mourn poet Darwish's death (ArabicNews.com)
Palestinians yesterday mourned the death of Mahmoud Darwish, one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets.
- Emine Saner on a haunting new movie about Afghanistan by a 19-year-old director (Guardian Unlimited)
Emine Saner on a haunting new movie about Afghanistan by a 19-year-old director
- The Antidote—Classic Poetry for Modern Life - The Epoch Times
The Antidote—Classic Poetry for Modern LifeThe Epoch Times, NY - Jul 9, 2008And, indeed, in the wonderfully quotable opening lines, Keats gently satirizes the rhetoric of his own Romantic generation, who sought redemption from city ...
- Meet Felisberto Hernández, the Father of Magic Realism - Village Voice
Meet Felisberto Hernández, the Father of Magic RealismVillage Voice, NY - 1 hour agoA girl reciting poetry is "poised between the infinite and a sneeze." A fellow pianist "let the sounds float off like dust beaten out of furniture. ...
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