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- Sculpture of poet Al Purdy ready after six-year delay - CBC News
Al Purdy near his home in B.C. The poet died in 2000. A sculpture of Al Purdy, often referred to as Canada's greatest poet, is finally ready and will be unveiled Tuesday at Queen's Park in Toronto, just steps from the Ontario Legislature. Purdy, who ...
- Counting the Dead (New York Times)
In poems about Iraq, Katrina and immigration, C. D. Wright is alert to the personal in the political.
- A certain kind of truth - Telegraph-Journal
A certain kind of truthTelegraph-Journal, Canada - 56 minutes agoLepore quotes Aristotle on the difference between history and poetry, "The one tells what has happened, the other the kind of things that can happen. ...
- Il Fragrance Delecto - The Scented Mask of Kilian Hennessy - Basenotes
BasenotesIl Fragrance Delecto - The Scented Mask of Kilian HennessyBasenotes, UK - 2 hours agoIt would be equally dangerous to let the perfume industry become a producer of utilitarian odours, with no poetry! There is a need for TRUE perfumes with a ...
- 4th Annual JFP Chick Ball (Jackson Free Press)
The Jackson Free Press Chick Ball returns to Hal & Mal’s Red Room and Big Room. A stellar line-up of chick music and spoken word, ending with a DJ, will raise awareness of domestic violence and money for the Center for Violence Prevention, a shelter for battered families in Pearl.
- High fives: Top local artists pick all-time favorites (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines—Inquirer Entertainment asked five of the country’s top contemporary musicians to pick their five all-time favorite songs.
- To watch or not to watch? - Guardian Unlimited
To watch or not to watch?Guardian Unlimited, UK - 5 hours ago... the evening was dedicated to a gathering of the community with fitting music and poetry, while survivors of Auschwitz and other camps told their stories ...
- Supermodel Plunges to Death in Apparent Suicide - People
A supermodel plunged to her death Saturday afternoon by leaping from her Lower Manhattan apartment window in an apparent suicide. Ruslana Korshunova, barely shy of her 21st birthday, apparently jumped from the balcony of her residential building in ...
- The greatness of Aimé Césaire - Business Day
The greatness of Aimé CésaireBusiness Day, Nigeria - 1 hour agoFrom the burning emotion of the poetry in the Cahier in the 1930s, to the Discours of 1956, there is a timeless universality in his adoption of the ...
- Fury vented on Duke student - Raleigh News & Observer
Staff Photos by Chuck Liddy CHINESE NAME: Before enrolling in college, she legally changed her name to Wang Qianyuan from the name her grandfather had chosen for her when she was born, Wang Jiani. "Jiani" literally translates to "Beautiful Girl." "It ...
- Jonah Goldberg: Throwing gas on the oil fire - Union
Contrary to nearly all received wisdom in Washington, not to mention the rhetoric of the presumptive nominees of both major parties, the scariest moments in American politics are often its most bipartisan. Some would say this was demonstrated in the ...
- Calling all poets to the Courthouse Centennial Dome Poem Contest - NewsoftheNorth.Net
Calling all poets to the Courthouse Centennial Dome Poem ContestNewsoftheNorth.Net, Wisconsin - 1 hour agoPoetry contest rules and the entry form are available at the county’s website: www.co.oneida.wi.gov. Click on the Courthouse Centennial link, ...
- Poet of Pepsis and burgers - Philadelphia Inquirer
The poet Frank O'Hara died on July 25, 1966, a day after being struck by a Jeep on Fire Island. He was 40. O'Hara was extraordinarily prolific. As Mark Ford wryly notes in his introduction to this volume, O'Hara's 1971 Collected Poems weighs in at ...
- Music can be path to language and math (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion for making school fun.
- DIVA TALK: Catching Up with Karen Akers, Tony Talk and News of ... - Playbill.com
Playbill.comDIVA TALK: Catching Up with Karen Akers, Tony Talk and News of ...Playbill.com, NY - 1 hour agoThrough the poetry of Dorothy Parker and the music and lyrics of an eclectic array of composers — including Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Maury Yeston, ...
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