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- Words on the street . . . - St. Petersburg Times
. . . and in the Cuban Club in Ybor City, when the Artists and Writers Group presents Deep Carnivale: A Celebration of Words from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. More than 70 Tampa Bay area poets, playwrights and authors of fiction and nonfiction will ...
- We need the wisdom of our elders now more than ever - Sunday World
We need the wisdom of our elders now more than everSunday World, South Africa - 1 hour agoWatching a spot of collaborative performance art, Moving Into Poetry – Threads, by choreographer Syvia “Magogo†Glasser and poet Lebo Mashile had the ...
- Messages from the conflict zone - Guardian Unlimited
The arrest of Radovan Karadżic has refocused attention on the under-acknowledged part played by poetry in the Bosnian war. In an opinion piece for the London Review of Books, Slavoj Žižek placed the blame squarely on Karadzic's trollish verse for ...
- Dylan Moran on the modern world - Daily Telegraph
"They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves. Nowadays, politics is all about presentation. " Moran - pronounced as in "sporran" - says ...
- Kay Ryan goes to Washington -- as poet laureate (Miami Herald)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike enthusiast and self-described ''modern hermit,'' will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate starting in the fall. The appointment lasts a year and comes ...
- If it’s banned, read it out loud - McAlester News-Capital & Democrat
As part of the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week, the McAlester Public Library will host two “Open Mic Night†events and a movie screening. The first will be for teens and young adults grade six and older. It will be from ...
- Bukowski: What Lies Beneath - Popmatters.com
During the rare moments when Charles Bukowski's vulnerable side are shown, they manage to break through the "dirty old man" parody of himself that he had become. As an avid reader who doesn’t know that much about Charles Bukowski, apart from the ...
- Wordsworth opens for e-books - The Bookseller (subscription)
Wordsworth opens for e-booksThe Bookseller (subscription), UK - 46 minutes agoWordsworth Editions is to sell 300 titles as e-books from this autumn with the cheapest priced at £1.75. The titles will include a range of poetry, ...
- Hadrian, British Museum, London (Independent)
A few words of scene-setting might be handy, especially for those who spent the periods devoted to post-Augustan Rome staring out of the classroom window. The Emperor Hadrian – more formally, Publius Aelius Hadrianus (born AD76; ruled from 117 until his death in AD138) – has had a pretty good press across the centuries, except from historians of the Jews, who remember his savage crushing of a ...
- Clarion Review Launches New Site with Web-Exclusive Content - ChristianNewsWire
ASHBURN, Va., Sept. 9 / Christian Newswire / -- The Clarion Review , a journal of arts, letters, and culture, has launched an all-new Web site with the latest tools for sharing articles and linking journal content to blogs and social networking sites ...
- Life Story Writing Class (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
LIFE STORY WRITING CLASS starting October 10 at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Library & Archives in partnership with Westside Education & Career Center (LAUSD). Wednesdays, from 2—4:30 p.m. Class is FREE. Record your special memories and family history as a precious gift to yourself and future generations.
- NEWSÂ Mafia 'poet' attacked for being gay - Feature (EARTHtimes.org)
Rome - The Sicilian Mafia's honour code doesn't bar members from being poets, but a jailed suspect's penchant for writing verse led his fellow mobsters to assume he was gay, so as punishment, they gang-raped him. ...
- Do you have a ‘literary tattoo’? - Charleston City Paper
Do you have a ‘literary tattoo’?Charleston City Paper, SC - 3 hours agoTo my surprise, both places said yes, they’d seen more and more people asking for passages from novels, lines from poetry, song lyrics, philosophical axioms ...
- Dead Palestinian poet's words alive on UK stage - Reuters
EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) - The words of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish have come poignantly to life on an Edinburgh Festival stage a week after his death following heart surgery in a U.S. hospital. Ironically the play Jidariyya (Mural) - written ...
- Notes from the Underground: Tarkovsky, Alli, Maddin and Me - MovieMaker Magazine
MovieMaker MagazineNotes from the Underground: Tarkovsky, Alli, Maddin and MeMovieMaker Magazine, NY - 1 hour agoWhere else am I going to get surreal films performed by mad theater performers (Antero’s Paratheatre troop) woven with the poetry of Sylvia Plath, ...
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