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- Happy Birthday, Václav Havel - findingDulcinea
findingDulcineaHappy Birthday, Václav HavelfindingDulcinea, New York - 5 minutes agoAlthough he began to write poetry in 1956 when he was 20, it was not until after he had served his two required years in the Czech military that Havel’s ...
- Acclaimed Country-Rock Writer/Artist JD Souther Returns With New ... - SongwriterUniverse
SongwriterUniverseAcclaimed Country-Rock Writer/Artist JD Souther Returns With New ...SongwriterUniverse, CA - 27 minutes agoI’m sort of like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the father of beat poetry, feeling that I’m an artist and I couldn’t choose to do anything else even if I wanted to. ...
- Hitting the high notes with Vasily Petrenko - Metro
MetroHitting the high notes with Vasily PetrenkoMetro, UK - 8 hours agoWith his boy-band looks and deep, dark reserves of poetry, Lewis is almost the keyboardist equivalent of Petrenko himself. But it's just as great to see the ...
- Gross Margin, by Laurent Quintreau Personal Days, by Ed Park - Independent
Gross Margin, by Laurent Quintreau Personal Days, by Ed ParkIndependent, UK - 13 minutes agoThere's the strange, modernist poetry of a trail of email subject headings, and the "instant folklore" of the internet age. "When you feel a tingling in ...
- The bird of gardens sang unto the rose: Happy Hafez Day - Payvand
PayvandThe bird of gardens sang unto the rose: Happy Hafez DayPayvand, Iran - 6 hours ago... known as ghazals, are noted for their beauty and bring to fruition the love, mysticism, and early Sufi themes that had long pervaded Persian poetry. ...
- Class pictures by Dawoud Bey - goTriad.com
Class pictures by Dawoud BeygoTriad.com, NC - 2 hours agoBey spent part of his adolescence playing drums for different local bands and writing poetry. He became interested in photography at 15 when he got his ...
- 'White Heat' forges friendship (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
A new book examines the correspondence between Emily Dickinson and writer Thomas Higginson -- and blasts a few myths in the process.
- The Noble Bowzer - Reason.com
Two members of Sha Na Na take to the pages of Columbia College Today to explore the recent scholarly interest in ... Sha Na Na. An excerpt: During the revolution the year before, the Vietnam-era culture wars had escalated into fist fights, even mob ...
- Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies - PR Inside
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Konstantin Pavlov, one of Bulgaria's most prominent poets and screenwriters known for its opposition during the country's totalitarian past, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75. Pavlov died Sunday after a long illness ...
- Can poetry in translation ever be as poetic in its new language? (The Japan Times)
A friend who was visiting recently from Germany posed me a difficult question: How can poetry be translated? I have often read that poetry is untranslatable, that "nothing is lost in translation except the poetry." Yet, if this were true, we would hardly be able to read, let alone appreciate, poets writing in other languages than our own. Read the full story
- Hundreds turn out to mourn Ala Adjetey - Modern Ghana
Hundreds turn out to mourn Ala AdjeteyModern Ghana, Ghana - 30 minutes agoBy GNA Politicians, lawyers, traditional rulers and people from all walks of life gathered on Friday to bid farewell to Mr. Peter Ala Adjetey, ...
- Night After Night, Sept. 25-Oct. 2 - San Antonio Express News
Mark Rubin & the Ridgetop Syncopators at Sam's Burger Joint (6 p.m.) Bassist, tenor guitar picker, singer, songwriter, storyteller, etc. Rubin has played everything from hardcore country to outside music, from traditional Jewish wedding selections to ...
- From Russia with gold (NBC Olympics)
Nastia Liukin, a Russian-born American gymnast of exquisite grace and beauty,won the women's all-around, a triumph that served as an emphatic reminder that the sport is formally called artistic gymnastics.
- All's fair in this poetry – even the livestock potty - Sacramento Bee
All's fair in this poetry – even the livestock pottySacramento Bee, USA - 3 hours agoBy Carlos Alcalá - calcala@sacbee.com The State Fair, we like to say, is a fair to remember. Poets and versifiers from around the area gave us dozens of ...
- Annie Proulx's prairie poetry - Times Online
Annie Proulx's prairie poetryTimes Online, UK - 23 minutes agoWhat Proulx’s prose comes to embody is a philosophy that John Steinbeck called “is thinkingâ€, the virtue of being matter-of-fact in fiction. ...
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