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- Making connections, finding a voice - So Md News.com
CSM professor Neal Dwyer is the coordinator of Connections, the college's literary magazine. The College of Southern Maryland will kick off its spring literary season March 5 when CSM professor Wayne Karlin, author of 10 books, will read from his ...
- Straight A's - Gainesville Daily Register
The Lee Intermediate fifth grade choir sang two songs, while three oral readers from Chalmers Elementary including Skylar Tatum, Logan Husfeld and Hezekiah Johnson recited poems. Three members of the Gainesville Middle School Student Council ...
- Novelist Tim O'Brien wins major literary prize - The San Marcos Mercury
The San Marcos MercuryNovelist Tim O'Brien wins major literary prizeThe San Marcos MercuryThe award, a $20000 prize, is given to a writer of prose with demonstrated achievements in literature. O'Brien, who mainly writes about his experiences in ...and more »
- Music Video: Black Eyed Peas, "Imma Be Rocking That Body" - Technorati (blog)
Music Video: Black Eyed Peas, "Imma Be Rocking That Body"Technorati (blog)The lyrics are typically inane—I'm not sure I buy the claim that this track is "futuristic musically"—but I don't think anyone has come to expect poetry ...and more »
- Open Salon: Valentine Poem Anthology - Salon
Saw it hanging on my walk, along the creek: a visual poem. To those who" don't get poetry", with all respect, try this for a few days: 1. Read it . 2. Read it silently -- read it out loud a few times. 3. Forget all the things you were told about ...
- Seoul steps up for Haiti - Korea Herald
Since a devastating earthquake on Jan. 12 left at least 1 million Haitians homeless, Seoulites have joined the global outpouring of support for the Caribbean nation. But while it’s been nearly a month since the quake struck, the death toll ...
- Tonight's Most Important Basketball Game Was Valedictorian in High School - Deadspin (blog)
Tonight's Most Important Basketball Game Was Valedictorian in High SchoolDeadspin (blog)or recruit "a 6'7" poetry lover with a 42-inch vertical." The story remarks that Harvard has "revis[ed] the media guide to feature alums from John Adams to ...and more »
- The Timing of the SAGs and Best Actress - Awards Daily (blog)
The Timing of the SAGs and Best ActressAwards Daily (blog)He had already won a Lead Actor Oscar for Gladiator and would have won for A Beautiful Mind if there hadn't been that poetry debacle at the BAFTAs. ...and more »
- Poor excuses: poetry and poverty mix - Creative Loafing Tampa
Poor excuses: poetry and poverty mixCreative Loafing TampaAnd TUMS I read as SMUT: I knew I was an evil child, doomed to write for Creative Loafing.) One reason we didn't worry much was that back then there were ...
- Six local debaters headed to state tourney - Santa Rosa Press Democrat (blog)
Six local debaters headed to state tourneySanta Rosa Press Democrat (blog)From Sonoma Academy, Millie Williams advanced in the original prose and poetry category, and from Windsor High, the team of Jason Fauss and Jonathan Jeffrey ...
- THE ETHICS OF COEXISTENCE: Bollywood's Different Take on Terrorism - California Chronicle
THE ETHICS OF COEXISTENCE: Bollywood's Different Take on TerrorismCalifornia ChronicleAs music and poetry allow for a representation of dreams and fantasies, they provide an important means to access the emotional reality of the characters. ...
- In her memoir, 'Just Kids', rocker Patti Smith writes a love letter to ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ecco, 278 pp., $27 When Robert Mapplethorpe died at 42 in 1989, whittled by AIDS into a fragile old man, I marked his passing with interest, but nothing approaching grief. I was 21 and studying at NYU and knew him as the arty porn guy, the dirty ...
- Games Chatterbox Column Friday - The Guardian (blog)
Games Chatterbox Column FridayThe Guardian (blog)Poetry in motion or something. Very much enjoyed the Nan sess on MW2 last night. Free for all on Rust was a humbling experience. I wasnt the only one being ...
- Live - Tucson Weekly
Tucson WeeklyLiveTucson WeeklyIt didn't matter that Quirk's lyrics were difficult for new listeners to follow if heard live for the first time; his poetry is murky even for those who ...and more »
- Exotic robot teaches us how to break free - The Copenhagen Post
Exotic robot teaches us how to break freeThe Copenhagen PostAmerican poet, musician and writer Saul Williams has supplied Koerner with words of poetry written especially for the performance. ...
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