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- On Poetry: Writers gain strength in co-op (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
It's a thrill for me, too, to discover a writer I admire. It's nice to think that she just sprang full-grown from the head of Zeus, but, like all good things, a writer grows slowly and needs good soil. Writers are the least demanding of artists: they use such primitive tools -- paper, pen (a computer would be nice) and books. They like solitude and silence.
- A FEAST FOR THE YEARS - New York Post
We're so inundated with pictures that we sometimes forget what it's like to only imagine. To build in our head the moments described by a voice in the dark. I've been dreaming a lot of history lately, thanks to a five CD set out this week called "100 ...
- News Articles (Massachusetts Daily Collegian)
Chancellor Robert Holub gave his first address to the faculty this past Friday at Bowker auditorium, giving a preview of what he hopes to accomplish this year at the University of Massachusetts.
- Talking to the cast of Peter Pan - Northampton Chronicle
Henry Winkler: I thrive on being busy – and I am! I was just at the unveiling of a wonderful bronze statue of "The Fonz" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with my family, though I was a little dismayed that the statue was taller than I was. Just before that ...
- Babylon AD - The Santa Barbara Independent
Babylon ADThe Santa Barbara Independent, CA - 10 hours agoAfter such a drought of speculative cinematic poetry, we almost get something that looks like the real thing. Just the promise of Michelle Yeoh and Mélanie ...
- Okkervil River wants to reach the masses with new record - The Gazette (Montreal)
The Gazette (Montreal)Okkervil River wants to reach the masses with new recordThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 1 hour agoMusic, movies, poetry. Rockers, groupies, suicidal head cases. There was so much redemption and desperation to explore, in fact, that we now have a sequel: ...
- Civil Rights Advocate, 103, Dies: Floretta Gunn Taught in ... - istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Civil Rights Advocate, 103, Dies: Floretta Gunn Taught in ...istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR - 6 hours agoShe made it a lifelong mission to memorize scripture and poetry. She'd recite Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with passion, or a Milton sonnet and other ...
- Jazz on a winter’s day: the best of the festival - Times Online
The opening night’s big bash puts the emphasis on vocals as a gaggle of performers  led by the sublime Melody Gardot  show why it’s the singers who are making the running at the moment. A ‘very special guest’ is promised, intriguing ...
- Polish poet to praise life at reading - Danville News
Polish poet to praise life at readingDanville News, PA - 1 hour agoBoth events, which are hosted by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell, are free to the public. A poet, essayist and memoirist, Zagajewski is considered ...
- Bang to read from her poetry today - Iowa City Press-Citizen
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop visiting faculty member Mary Jo Bang will read from her poetry in a free event at 7 p.m. today in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of Dey House on the UI campus. Bang is the author of five books of poems, including ...
- Richard Brody: Max Ophüls at Film Forum. (The New Yorker)
The exacting and sumptuous Cinémathèque Française restoration of “Lola Montès,†Max Ophüls’s last film, from 1955 (opening at Film Forum on Oct. 10), recovers not just the movie’s look but also its meaning. The romantic costume drama presents a great nineteenth-century femme fatale, a faux-Spanish danseuse and gold . . .
- Authors grieve over David Foster Wallace's apparent suicide - Baltimore Sun
NEW YORK - The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel ...
- Alina Simone moves on from Russian poetry to her own tunes - AfterEllen.com
Alina Simone moves on from Russian poetry to her own tunesAfterEllen.com - 27 minutes agoBlack Emperor. Sounds like a heavenly match to me. I'm hoping the new album will include the infectious "Beautiful Machine," a gorgeous yearning rocker that ...
- A good recipe gone sour - Daily Princetonian
Five cups flour, three cups sugar, four sticks of butter, four eggs, vanilla, a pinch of salt, baking powder and a smile. The secret is revealed; the classic Murray-Dodge Cafe recipe. So many stressful nights relieved, friends' heart to hearts ...
- Words make lifelong companions for those who are inclined CHRISTINE Z. WHITE (The Republican)
Words, words, words, I'm so sick of words;" Eliza Doolittle sang that line in the Broadway musical "My Fair Lady." It was near the end of the show, and she was angry with Freddie for his incessant poetry of love. She didn't want poetry. She wanted action, not words.
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