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- USC's Poetry Initiative accepting manuscripts for chapbook contest - Orangeburg Times Democrat
USC's Poetry Initiative accepting manuscripts for chapbook contestOrangeburg Times Democrat, SC - 2 hours agoCOLUMBIA -- The South Carolina Poetry Initiative at the University of South Carolina is accepting entries for the state's fourth annual chapbook contest. ...
- Junketing around the Junction, Aug. 14 - Concord Journal
Junketing around the Junction, Aug. 14Concord Journal, USA - 1 hour agoThere will be a drawing for copy of the book, “Slow Food Nation.” RSVP — Poetry reading — Jim Leahy will hold a poetry reading and ice cream social on ...
- Pressed flowers between pages - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphPressed flowers between pagesCalcutta Telegraph, India - Aug 1, 2008Although he said he only wrote when inspired, Faraz left a sizeable corpus of poetry, prose and drama now available in four volumes. ...
- The Lawrence Jordan Album (DVD Talk)
The Lawrence Jordan Album Facets Video 1957-2006 / B&W & Color / 1:37 flat full frame / 465 min. / Street Date May 27, 2008 / 59.95 Directed by Lawrence Jordan
- ‘NAFEST Meant to Showcase Nigeria’s Culture’ (This Day)
Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode (SAN) has said that this year’s National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFEST) would be used to showcase the nation’s rich cultural heritage.
- 10:15 a.m. - UCA Now Home to Major Literary Journal (KARK Little Rock)
Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters & Life, founded and edited by celebrated author and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu, is now based at the University of Central Arkansas.
- Saturday, September 27 (The New York Observer)
Before you cry into your Balenciaga bag, remove your fake “smart glasses” and put them on your face and stagger through the Lit Crawl , imported from San Francisco, naturally, where co-curator Suzanne Russo told us “it’s so big that we make maps and you see people walking around the Mission District with them. Hopefully soon we’ll have people crawling all over New York ...
- A tribute to poet Elizabeth Bishop (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WORCESTER - Gathering at the grave of poet Elizabeth Bishop on the anniversary of her death are, from left, Dan Lewis, Carl Johnson, Laura Menides and Michael Hood. T&G Staff / JIM COLLINS
- A Van Cliburn anniversary: From musician to folk hero - PopMatters
A Van Cliburn anniversary: From musician to folk heroPopMatters, IL - Aug 6, 2008There’s no “Banner” or poetry; in Russia, he was more a musician than an objectified folk hero and, interestingly, seems more in his element. ...
- Lives they might have lived - Ottawa Citizen
Lives they might have livedOttawa Citizen, Canada - 3 hours agoLessing, whose body of work over a long and productive career includes more than 50 titles in fiction, science fiction, non-fiction and poetry, ...
- Joyce Carol Oates gets wild with her latest (Courier-Post)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. "My Sister, My Love," her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Oakland Opera Theater to Stage Stravinsky's Masterpieces - Broadway World
Oakland Opera Theater to Stage Stravinsky's MasterpiecesBroadway World, NY - 3 hours agoA former National Teen Poetry Slam Champion, she has been featured at Robert Redford’s Sundance Summit, the Living Word Festival, and the Stern Grove ...
- A poet dwelling in the shadows - Daily Telegraph
The narrator of Robert Edric's In Zodiac Light is a young psychiatrist at Dartford Asylum, in south-east London, in 1923. The novel opens as he takes a party of inmates to see a beached whale in the Thames estuary. The corpse is disappointing: "There ...
- Wednesday Best Bets - MetroMix
'Throw' down: Score a free flick at The Grant Park Music Festival. The alfresco series amps up its concert formula with the U.S. premiere screening of Franz Osten’s 1929 Indian silent film, “A Throw of Dice.” The Grant Park Orchestra, led by ...
- Austin, Boston, Charlotte, and New York teams win semifinal bouts at National Poetry Slam 2008 (Isthmus)
Four finalist spots were up for grabs at the National Poetry Slam semifinals on Friday at the Overture Center, where 20 contenders battled with words after a week's worth of bouts and last-minute practicing throughout downtown Madison. One highlight bout pitted defending the 2007 champion team from Charlotte against those from Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland, and St. Paul, which brought the talents ...
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