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- Never mind the Bullock - Colorado Springs Independent
Colorado Springs IndependentNever mind the BullockColorado Springs Independent, CO - 1 hour agoTall City actually started out with Bullock reading his poetry over electronic music composed on his 1980-vintage Apple computer. ...
- New play explores what search reveals about us (USA Today)
They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to finding a missing person? That's the premise behind User 927, a new production in Philadelphia that blends fact and fiction in the tale of a disappearance from a small Midwestern town.
- Tell Me This is Normal, by Julie O'Callaghan (Independent)
The demotic, funny, quiety devastating vignettes of Julie O'Callaghan seem to owe a debt to the brevity and precision of classical Chinese poetry. O'Callaghan is a Chicagoan of Irish descent who has lived in Ireland since her twenties. Selected from a 25-year publishing history, the poems of 'Tell Me This is Normal' are part verse, part dramatic monologue and wholly her own.
- Kay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet Laureate - New York Times
New York TimesKay Ryan, Outsider With Sly Style, Named Poet LaureateNew York Times, United States - 1 hour agoMs. Ryan has carved out a life conducive to poetry writing. She has taught the same remedial English course at the College of Marin in Kentfield, Calif., ...
- In Town: Poetry, Ehrenreich, Richmond, Ng - San Francisco Chronicle
In Town: Poetry, Ehrenreich, Richmond, NgSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoThe benefit raises money for the Poetry Scholarship Fund at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. The author of "This Land Is Their Land: Reports From a ...
- Hitting the shelves (Denver Post)
Two gruesome homicides preoccupy Det. Sgt. Diane Fry and Det. Constable Ben Cooper in StephenBooth's ambitious seventh police procedural (after "The Dead Place").
- Darkness visible - Hindustan Times
Dark as night and nearly as long, Christopher Nolan’s new Batman movie feels like a beginning and something of an end. Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of ...
- Couples will perform together tonight with Akron Baroque (Akron Beacon Journal)
The month was September. The setting was a Youngstown Symphony rehearsal, and Cupid was about to draw his bow.
- 'Old age' is getting older - Austin Herald
'Old age' is getting olderAustin Herald, MN - 43 minutes agoLast Wednesday Joyce Sutphen shared her poetry. And who caught a ride with Joyce none other than Knowles Dougherty our former Austin friend. ...
- Showing What They Know - Education Week News
Education Week NewsShowing What They KnowEducation Week News, MD - 6 hours agoSenior projects have included designing and implementing a poetry-writing course for adults, and building a snow machine and then using it to open a ...
- 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 ...
- Cohen adds another show at Toronto stop (Toronto Star)
Good news for those who've been crying because they don't have tickets to see Leonard Cohen at the Sony Centre next month. Cohen has belatedly decided to do a fourth Toronto show on Monday, June 9.
- Pledged to Obama - Wall Street Journal
Amid months of fervent campaigning on behalf of Barack Obama, Jody Rodgers of Seattle ran a side campaign -- stringing up banners and passing out buttons, making stump speeches at the neighborhood elementary school and courting constituents at the ...
- Who killed the literary critic? (Salon.com)
In the age of blogging, great critics appear to be on life support. Salon's book reviewers discuss snobbery, how to make criticism fun and the need for cultural gatekeepers.
- 'Hamp rooming house owner declines to rebuild after fire - The Republican - MassLive.com
'Hamp rooming house owner declines to rebuild after fireThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 51 minutes agoThe tenant was supposed to read poetry but failed to show up, and Connor has not seen him since. Woicekoski and his family have met with city officials to ...
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