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- Blog Digest - Silicon Republic
Dead men can’t tell tales, but apparently they can blog. The Orwell Prize for political writing decided to resurrect the Animal Farm writer’s journal in blog format and publish his daily entries. It is incredibly surreal to see Orwell document ...
- Poets slam down their rhymes in Brink Lounge bout (The Capital Times)
Their words didn't float down out of the rafters and land on our shoulders. Instead, they slapped listeners across the face and begged for an explanation. This wasn't a flowery, Shakespearean sonnet exhibition with pentameters and rhymes and professions of romantic love. Instead, Wednesday night was the second night of first bouts -- or rounds -- of the National Poetry Slam for four teams of ...
- Flower in the junkyard - Salon
Alejandro Polanco in "Chop Shop." If you own a car and you live in or around New York City, you've at least heard about the Iron Triangle of Willets Point. Not because it's a zone of spectacular urban blight right in the middle of the continent's ...
- A Punch of Salt - Kolkata Newsline
A Punch of SaltKolkata Newsline, India - 1 hour ago... running down the contemporary markers of Bengali culture (read Bangla bands and their neo-Bangla rhetoric, poetry on T-shirts, de-boned ilish and more ...
- Nigeria: Justice Isaac Ejiofor (1949-2008) - AllAfrica.com
Nigeria: Justice Isaac Ejiofor (1949-2008)AllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 hour agoMy friend, Barrister Ahmed Miawada, was going to give a public reading from his new collection of poetry, Fossils, (Hybun Publications, 2008). ...
- Demons Inner and Outer - New York Sun
Demons Inner and OuterNew York Sun, United States - 1 hour agoStepan is a liberal of Dostoyevsky's own generation, a man of the 1840s — that is to say, an idealist, a humanist, a lover of art and poetry. ...
- First Friday a homecoming celebration (Mount Vernon News)
MOUNT VERNON -- The Heritage Centre Association is planning the final First Friday of the season for Oct. 3. Knox Community Hospital and Warehouse Music are the event sponsors.
- Radio for little ones (Wickenburg Sun)
Beginning Tuesday (Aug. 5), a new weekly radio show will debut on KBSZ, 1250 AM, the local Wickenburg station. Called “Toddler Time,” if will feature stories, music, poetry, and a brief message for preschool children who are at home or in daycare.
- Litchfield Review announces writer's conference - TownTimesNews.com
Litchfield Review announces writer's conferenceTownTimesNews.com, CT - 11 hours agoOthers are contemporary American poet, Rennie McQuilkin, Tarrifville, whose work appears in The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review, and Poetry presents; ...
- Meet local author Saturday in Geneva (Daily Herald)
Cynthia Jean Mueller of Plano has been a school bus driver for 20 years. Now also a published author, she got the idea for her novel when she overheard a child's conversation on her bus.
- Music preview: Singer, songwriter Darrell Scott returns to Big Room - Enterprise-Record
Music preview: Singer, songwriter Darrell Scott returns to Big RoomEnterprise-Record, CA - Oct 2, 2008Scott, who earned his degree in poetry from Tufts University, has six original CDs to his credit including his newest release "Modern Hymns," (August 2008, ...
- Without a Prayer - Rolling Stone
P hoenix, July 13th, Sunday morning. Thank God John McCain has declared that he wants to wallpaper the continent with new nuke plants, because now the chances are better that this wretched slab of hot, birdshit-covered asphalt they call a state will ...
- The Boss, Bon Jovi headed for Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field (Rocky Mountain News)
The Jersey boys are coming, and we ain't talking about Frankie Valli. The Boss and Bon Jovi are ready to perform.
- NAPA's future in doldrums - The Nation, Pakistan
NAPA's future in doldrumsThe Nation, Pakistan, Pakistan - 45 minutes agoApart from that he continuously contributed to Urdu prose and poetry recitation. Moreso, the academy premises are the inherent right of Hindus for whom it ...
- Oates' latest novel a daring work of dark imagination (The Springfield News-Leader)
Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
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