Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Evan Tanner: Do Something Unexpectedly Nice for Someone in Need - Bloody Elbow
Evan Tanner: Do Something Unexpectedly Nice for Someone in NeedBloody Elbow - Sep 9, 2008This one from a Japanese fan has some great Japanese poetry that I think Evan would have identified with. Evan would be very happy if people remembered him ...
- Dis poet is still relevant (Mail and Guardian)
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. In the late 1970s Jamaican dub poet Mutabaruka wrote the cultish Dis Poem that declared: "Dis poem will not change things, dis poem need to be changed".
- THE FIFTH FLOOR (Book Reporter)
From page one of THE FIFTH FLOOR, a follow-up to 2007’s THE CHICAGO WAY, it is evident that former police officer Michael Kelly is no ordinary private eye.
- 'Chocolate News' is edgy, but can it be funny? - Boston Globe
"Chappelle's Show" has spoiled me, probably forever. Any time I watch comedy that tackles race head-on, I can't help but compare it to Comedy Central's brilliant, short-lived sketch show, which brought us the concept of the sports-style "Racial Draft ...
- Ongoing events - Advocate Weekly
Ongoing eventsAdvocate Weekly, MA - Oct 1, 2008Berkshire Writers Room, ongoing, all meetings at 7 pm: poetry, second Wednesday (Wild Sage, North Street); all-genre, third Thursday (Mason Library, ...
- Free Verse: The Flarf Collective - City Pages
The 21st century has been a bit of a disappointment so far. We were supposed to have flying cars by now, and robot sidekicks. This new-ish millennium has, however, provided at least one new literary movement: It has given us flarf, a form of poetry ...
- Van Gogh's Transcendent Vision - Wall Street Journal
Digital Image. 2008 MoMA, N.Y. Painted in a small cell in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, Vincent Van Gogh's magisterial "Starry Night" (1889) is perhaps the most celebrated of the many paintings that chart his compressed and compelling career ...
- Planning a killer World Music Fest - Chicago Tribune
Planning a killer World Music FestChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours agoListeners who attended the "Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz" series this summer heard the lyric poetry of trumpeter-composer ElSaffar; this time, ...
- Discovering Christmas at the Children's Home - Springfield News Sun
Discovering Christmas at the Children's HomeSpringfield News Sun, OH - 6 hours agoBy Tom Stafford SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The idea of a 9-year-old child separated from his family at Christmas might seem a sad one to outsiders. ...
- Whitireia Student Wins Katherine Mansfield Award - Scoop
Whitireia writing student Joseph Ryan has been awarded the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Novice Writer award, for his story, Stranger Than Beautiful. The awards were held 2 October at Te Papa Museum in Wellington and are one of New Zealand ...
- Pray silence for Bin Laden the wedding poet (Times Online)
POETRY by Osama Bin Laden is to be published next week by an Oxford-educated academic, who has discovered that the world’s most hated terrorist was once in great demand as an after-dinner speaker.
- Off-Broadway calendar (The Record)
THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES - A musical set at a high-school prom, with songs from the '50s and '60s. In previews; opens tonight. Westside Theatre, 407 W. 43rd St. 212-239-6200 or telecharge.com
- Workshop encourages YEC student authors - Vindicator
The students had 15 minutes to create a fictional story based on sparse guidelines. YOUNGSTOWN — “I just like writing. It just gets me away from all the stuff in the world,” said Freeman Davis, as a creative-writing workshop at Youngstown Early ...
- 'Mad Men' and `30 Rock' win top Emmys (9 News Denver)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The sleek '60s drama "Mad Men" made Emmy history Sunday as the first basic-cable show to win a top series award, while the sitcom "30 Rock" and its stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin also emerged as big winners.
- No peace prizes in prospect on the literary scene - Slate
No peace prizes in prospect on the literary sceneSlate - 13 hours agoAnother Fray with no fights came on Ron Rosenbaum's "Spectator" on blurbing poetry: The best efforts by posters will feature in the column, ...
|
|
Refinance Mortgage
California Mortgage
Mortgage News Archives
|