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- All the colours of chaos (Guardian Unlimited)
Joanna Carey meets the dreamer whose visions have enriched a generation of children
- Pits, poetry and curious Greek tragedy - Daily Mail
Daily MailPits, poetry and curious Greek tragedyDaily Mail, UK - 21 minutes ago... I think that Byron - whose poetry I much admire - would find the sight funny. Anyone who wrote 'All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ...
- Ten Great Quotes on Change - American Chronicle
Ten Great Quotes on ChangeAmerican Chronicle, CA - 8 minutes agoWright has written for publications such as LACMA Magazine, The Daily Titan, and CYH Magazine. In 2004 she wrote her third volume of poetry titled, "Say It! ...
- Popsters find they can hang with twang - Tampabay.com
Popsters find they can hang with twangTampabay.com, FL - 18 hours agoAnd the juiciest story of the week might be bubbleheaded blond Jessica Simpson, who figured that since she dates a Dallas Cowboy and looks hot in cowboy ...
- Hip-hop artist uses song to encourage youth voting (Oakland Tribune)
Oakland rapper Yung Moses, 20, is taking his feelings of angst and translating them into music, and he's talking about a political revolution in a song called "Vote (Ready or Not)."
- Happy Birthday, TS Eliot - findingDulcinea
findingDulcineaHappy Birthday, TS EliotfindingDulcinea, New York - 19 minutes agoEliot spent a postgraduate year in Paris, where he studied philosophy and wrote poetry. While in France, he decided to apply for a Philosophy PhD from ...
- Lewis Green was a talented writer who wasn't afraid to speak his mind (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Lewis Green died this week. Among a number of talented writers nurtured by this county, he was an original, and it seems fitting that this man, who grew up in Waynesville, is remembered with a bit of fanfare. He published eight books, including “The Silence of Snakes” and “And Scatter the Proud.”
- Linda Bierds' poem reshapes experience into metaphor - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Linda Bierds' poem reshapes experience into metaphorThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 2 hours agoI love the extravagance of this kind of writing, from the repetition of sounds to the heightened phrases in the short lines, such as in this pair: "waxed ...
- Poet Waters part of Writers Series (The Valdosta Daily Times)
The author of “Darling Vulgarity” is the next guest of the Contemporary Writers Series.
- Poetic Justice: A dying artist finally gets recognized for his work - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.comPoetic Justice: A dying artist finally gets recognized for his workThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 30 minutes agoHe saved cards and letters, some of them hand-signed, from Pope John Paul II, Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, erotic writer Anais Nin, Hillary Clinton, ...
- The man behind the lyrics - Johnson City Press
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Midway through their joint acoustic performance in a converted mill here recently, Lyle Lovett turned to John Hiatt and observed, “So many people have recorded your songs, John, it’s hard to know where to start.” Lovett ...
- Gerard Manley Hopkins bio poetic - Jam! Showbiz
Readers moved by religion, poetry and their effects on people's lives may be fascinated by this almost day-to-day account of English priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. It's by an American poet who is also a biographer of American poets. Hopkins died ...
- Sample uncommon yet beautiful forms of expression in these works - Sun and Press
"What Remains" (Nightshade Press) by Joe Weil. In a culture saturated by best-selling novels and titillating "tell-all" memoirs, more beautiful forms of literary expression are often pushed aside. Poetry falls victim to this more often than it should ...
- Rough-hewn genius of Ted Hughes laid bare in unfinished verses (Times Online)
Ted Hughes’s courtship of Sylvia Plath and the deterioration of their relationship into “screams and death” are explored in a pair of his unpublished drafts for poems printed for the first time in The Times today.
- RNC 2008 documentary needs your help - Bay Area Indymedia
RNC 2008 documentary needs your helpBay Area Indymedia, CA - 7 minutes agoWrite poetry to send out a powerful message in the film We are looking for someone or some people to write an amazing poem or poems about the loss of ...
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