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- Angelou writing a poem about Obama (KGO-TV Bay Area)
Maya Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack Obama's election, but she does not expect another command performance.
- Olymic celebration of arts in the capital - Evening Standard
The biggest celebration of culture in living memory starts today, placing arts alongside sport in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics. The marriage of sports and culture was launched symbolically this morning as medal-winning athletes Jonathan ...
- Waterstone’s says poet Patrick Jones incited bookshop protest (icWales)
A BOOKSHOP that cancelled a poetry reading because of a Christian protest has accused the author of deliberately inciting the furore to promote his work.
- Teachers, please, be good to them - Philadelphia Inquirer
They're coming back to you this week. Presumably, they're ready. While I have no kids to send to you these days, one never forgets. Not their shiny, scrubbed, summer-drenched look. Not those feet that have run bare for nearly three months, now shod ...
- The $25 Haiku (Denver Post)
Autumn's shorter days and colder nights find our readers more likely to shiver than kick back, judging from the verse they contributed when we asked them to write about "chill" for our weekly Denver Post $25 Haiku Contest. Janet Kamnikar of Fort Collins, like us, has cold feet:
- Hear This Hammer Ring - Common Dreams
Stand by my side. - Langston Hughes When we first began organizing the Split This Rock Poetry Festival about a year and a half ago, I told people that we'd chosen the date to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I can't ...
- Poem of the week: Hummingbird - Guardian Unlimited
Poise is the essence of this week's poem , Mark Roper 's Hummingbird. It shows in its technique - and perhaps it is the poem's fundamental subject. Poise, a lovely word, is related to the Old French pois, meaning weight, and originally from the Latin ...
- Author Barbara Hurd Reads to Packed Crowd - Appalachian Independent
Author Barbara Hurd Reads to Packed CrowdAppalachian Independent, MD - 3 hours agoFor the grand-daddy of American poets, Walk Whitman, this was the liminal zone between water and land, a boundary landscape upon which he projected both the ...
- Aussie poet marks book week - Wiltshire Times
Aussie poet marks book weekWiltshire Times, UK - 2 hours agoHe also listened to some of their work and gave them advice on writing poetry. Acting deputy headteacher Carolyn Spruce said: “The children had a great time ...
- PAUL GROSS FILM HAS IT ALL - The Observer
Paul Gross was searching for the poetry when he crafted Passchendaele, his epic film about Canadian tragedy and valour in the First World War. Not the "sappy adolescent poetry" he wrote as a teen when his maternal grandfather, WWI veteran Michael ...
- Remembering Jodi - Sturgis Journal
Remembering JodiSturgis Journal, MI - 7 hours agoLooking back, Cook said she and Parrack became friends at a football game around the time of Parrack’s birthday in September. “We started to talk and found ...
- Heaven on Earth to open New York fest (rediff.com)
With the works of veteran film makers such as Shyam Benegal (Bose, the Forgotten Hero) and Deepa Mehta (Heaven on Earth), as well as first-timers such as Sooni Taraporevala (Little Zizou), the 2008 edition of the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York has a menu of beguiling features and documentaries to suit all tastes.
- Stephen Baker talks to Nora Young about The Numerati, his book on ... - CBC.ca
CBC.caStephen Baker talks to Nora Young about The Numerati, his book on ...CBC.ca, Canada - Oct 9, 2008The 2008 CBC Literary Awards competition is open for submissions in poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction. Entries must be received by November 1, ...
- Art Spiegelman: ‘Young %@&*!’ - Harvard Crimson
Renowned comics artist Art Spiegelman is currently reading Samuel Beckett’s “Murphy.†Though the Pulitzer Prize winner lamented that it makes for poor travel reading, his choice of the modernist author hints at the wide array influences on his ...
- Reading the New Yorker in Bed, or the Irrelevance of Liberalism - Dissident Voice
Reading the New Yorker in Bed, or the Irrelevance of LiberalismDissident Voice, CA - 6 hours agoThe creepy shotgun marriage between Christian and market fundamentalisms that has been in our faces for the last eight years is so mired in its own ...
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