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- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - FOX News
HONOLULU — At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- Poetry Princess - The Times
Poetry PrincessThe Times, South Africa - 1 hour agoThere are however a number of poets who have been publishing new, exciting and original work in the last few years. These include Isobel Dixon, ...
- 'Palace Council' by Stephen L. Carter: Secrets are murder in this ... - Dallas Morning News
'Palace Council' by Stephen L. Carter: Secrets are murder in this ...Dallas Morning News, TX - 2 hours agoPalace Council puts a spooky angle over the barbershops and segregated hotels of Harlem by introducing a secret society that is based on Miltonic poetry, ...
- Pants' star balances life and love in sequel - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Amber Tamblyn says that art imitates life in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.” “They literally lifted our personal characters into the film, so what you’re seeing are real friendships, real bickering, real moments, real laughter ...
- Movie Review | Patti Smith: Dream of Life - Columbus Dispatch
You might not learn everything you want to know in Patti Smith: Dream of Life , an impressionistic portrait of that punk godhead, but you learn just about everything you need. Created over 11 years, it was directed and mostly shot by Steven Sebring ...
- Christine Pullein-Thompson: Stable companions - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukChristine Pullein-Thompson: Stable companionsTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 11 hours agoThey followed their mother's example and wrote stories in the evenings or recited poetry. At the outbreak of war, as teenagers, the sisters opened a riding ...
- Nigeria: I Wrote About Abuja Like a Landscape Painter - Denja (AllAfrica.com)
Denja Abdullahi , is a very known name in the arts and literary circles. A native of Kogi State, Denja holds a BA in English, an M A in Literature and is now pursuing a PhD in literature.
- Plain Dealer beginning celebration of 150 years of publishing newspaper (Wabash Plain Dealer)
Today is a Red-Letter-Day for the Wabash Plain Dealer. Today is the day the Plain Dealer begins its yearlong celebration of its 150th year in business.
- Buoyant 'Swimmers' - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Buoyant 'Swimmers'The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 7 hours agoIt's a conversation with a waitress who loves the poetry of Matthew Arnold that gives the book its title. As Strickland describes it, "They had both planned ...
- Book Review: Postcards from the Asylum by Karen Knight (Blogcritics.org)
It’s intense, sometimes terrifying, and sometimes exuberant, but never does the work become despairing. Karen Knight is one of Australia's most respected poets. She's won a wide number of awards and grants, and has been a writer in residence both in Australia and overseas. Her previous poetry book, Under the One Granite Roof, took on the subject matter of Walt Whitman's period on the ...
- Don't forget to invite the artists to you next protest! - MWC News
Don't forget to invite the artists to you next protest!MWC News, Canada - 4 hours agoI have noticed that in most great movements in the USA, the ones that saw success were often buoyed up by art.....billboards and posters, poetry, songs, ...
- Dylan Thomas - guardian.co.uk
Dylan Thomasguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoHe was introduced to poetry at the age of two, through nursery rhymes, later saying that "before I could read them for myself I had come to love just the ...
- What happened to ‘straight talk?’ - La Crosse Tribune
The lust for power has corrupted many people. This may be the reason John McCain has gone from being a man of “straight talk” and honor to using lies and deliberate distortions of the truth in order to advance his candidacy. The McCain/Palin ...
- Wilmington on DVD: Orson Welles in La Mancha (Isthmus)
Viva Welles! The wreckage of a great artist's most cherished labor of love is still well worth our time -- often far more than the successes and best efforts of lesser men and women. Take Orson Welles' troubled production of Don Quixote -- Miguel de Cervantes' literary masterpiece, the great Spanish novel of chivalry and illusions.
- Her Own Society (The New Yorker)
In April of 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to a stranger, initiating a fervent twenty-four-year correspondence, in the course of which they managed to meet only twice. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, thirty-eight, was a man of letters, a clergyman, a fitness enthusiast, a celebrated abolitionist, and a champion of . . .
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