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- Paul Morley's Guide to Musical Genres, Radio 2 (Independent)
One does not automatically connect Radio 2 with the avant-garde. But every so often it happens that a slot for it is made available, and the collision of the two makes for enormously uplifting radio. Such was the case with this week's Paul Morley's Guide to Musical Genres, which went out last Tuesday at 11.30pm, so as not to scare the infants.
- Smears, Scribbles, and Scratches: Twombly at the Tate Modern (The New York Sun)
The magnificent retrospective of veteran American artist Cy Twombly at London's Tate Modern is a reminder that, above all else, painting is smearing and drawing is scribble. In his handling, with its extremes of slightness and scatter, informality can border on the infantile. This show, which is curated by the Tate's director, Sir Nicholas Serota, travels to the Bilbao Guggenheim in the fall, ...
- QU club plans music courses - Gulf Times
Gulf TimesQU club plans music coursesGulf Times, Qatar - 2 hours agoLaunched at the end of last semester, the club intends to bring together students with interest in music, poetry, sound mixing, recording, sound effects, ...
- Cherish your mangled song lyrics - Otago Daily Times
Cherish your mangled song lyricsOtago Daily Times, New Zealand - 29 minutes agoFor more than a decade, it's been easy and free. Tap a few keystrokes into one of the many lyric sites on the Internet, and the words become as clear as ...
- Reconsiderations: 'Life Studies' by Robert Lowell - New York Sun
IN THE PUBLIC EYE An illustration of Robert Lowell on the cover of Time magazine, June 1967. The place names are familiar, but Lowell's New England is not a place you could find on the map. It is a cosmological arena, where good and evil wrestle for ...
- Lyrical Alchemist Al Young Combining Poetry, Blues - NPR News
News & Notes , April 30, 2008 · In honor of National Poetry Month, Farai Chideya talks with California's Poet Laureate Al Young about the art and joys of poetry. His latest book, Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry , includes ...
- Pope preaches hope - Carroll County Times
When I first heard that the pope was coming to visit the United States, I was filled with hope because he would speak on education. But why would education, of all topics, fill me with hope? Well, as a devout Roman Catholic, I have always felt ...
- Children remember father’s pride, care in his work (Rapid City Journal)
Leonard Swanson was a crackerjack engineer, but he was also a man who loved his family and enjoyed hunting, gardening, painting and writing poetry.
- Literary efforts sought for Arts Festival - Connecticut Post
Literary efforts sought for Arts FestivalConnecticut Post, CT - 1 hour agoIt classifies entries as fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Competitors, whose names are not known to the judges, are divided into elementary, middle, ...
- A calendar of what's going on - Chicago Tribune
A calendar of what's going onChicago Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoAsparagus season is ushered in with games, dinners, poetry and cooking contests, wine tastings, a fun run and food vendors selling asparagus-based recipes ...
- Local bands play big at JazzFest - Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Local bands play big at JazzFestSioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - 5 hours agoLast year, he performed music in the Poetry Slam and won that competition. His group found out just recently that they were scheduled to play for this ...
- The Activist (Washington Post)
WHY I CAME WEST By Rick Bass
- City to institutionalize Rizal's b-day celebration - Sun.Star
City to institutionalize Rizal's b-day celebrationSun.Star, Philippines - 3 hours agoThe program was highlighted by poetry readings in honor of Rizal from local Kapampangan poets Felix Garcia and Frank Guinto. "The young generation should be ...
- Words to touch the invisible - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldWords to touch the invisibleSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoAnd fellow poet Adam Thorpe reckons, "If genius is operating anywhere in English poetry at present, I feel it is here, in Burnside's singular music. ...
- Small presses, big voices - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
bad-hair day the slick look it needs. Hawaii authors R. Zamora "Zack" Linmark and Susan Schultz are familiar with the vitality and importance of small press. They've been published locally by Bamboo Ridge, and Schultz runs her own small press out of ...
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