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- Emily Pinkerton blends old-time and Chilean music on her album ValparaÃÂso (Pittsburgh City Paper)
"It's this thing with a long history, and the point of it being to relay both secular and sacred stories through this either memorized or improvised poetry." By Aaron Jentzen.
- A selection of the worst song lyrics of all time - News.com.au
EVEN the best songwriters have off days - here's just selection of some truly awful lyrics. Plus, enter our poll to see if you agree on the worst songline ever. ‘‘I'm afraid of the dark, especially when I'm in the park, when there's no one else ...
- The Week In Books: A feast of rich and dark materials - Independent
The Week In Books: A feast of rich and dark materialsIndependent, UK - 9 hours agoPoetry spans Rilke's Duino Elegies, Elizabeth Bishop and nursery rhymes. Children's works include Hergé's Tintin and Tove Jansson's Moomintrolls. ...
- Homeless 90210: Slumming time and the livin’s easy - Las Vegas Sun
Being homeless in this upper crust enclave is not exactly like living on the street in other places. There are handouts of $2,000 and bottles of Dom Perignon, lucky finds of Gucci shoes and diamond-encrusted bracelets, a chance to rub shoulders with ...
- A Cloud In Trousers is intimately brought to life - Metro
A Cloud In Trousers is intimately brought to lifeMetro, UK - 21 hours agoThe sorrow of a doomed love affair, with its trajectory from grand passion to drowning sorrows in a lake of vodka, is given a tragic edge as Bloom vividly ...
- Max Bernstein: Liveblogging from the SeaChange Ideas Forum at the Starz Green Room in Denver (HuffingtonPost)
I just left a panel about nonmilitary solutions to combating terrorism, and left feeling horrified about how inefficient and underfunded our perfunctory nods to this concept are compared to Britain, etc.
- Kennedy to DNC: 'The dream lives on' - Politico.com
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg , the senator’s niece and the daughter of the late president, introduced the eight-minute documentary, which Burns directed with fellow filmmaker Mark Herzog. Included were interviews with Massachusetts constituents as ...
- Getting intimate with Jewel through her music, writings - Fosters Daily Democrat
For Jewel, the search for intimacy is as near as her pen and notebook. Writing, whether it is songs or poetry, really is a form of intimacy, suggests the singer-songwriter-poet who has moved into a new phase of her extraordinarily successful career ...
- Local students celebrated at Longfellow Poetry Awards Sunday - Abington Mariner
The Longfellow National Historic Site announces the winners of the Longfellow Student Poetry Awards, an annual contest recognizing original poetry from local students from the Greater Boston area. The award program and poetry reading will be held ...
- Arts Calendar: 8/28-8/31 (The MetroWest Daily News)
A listing of events in and around MetroWest for Thursday, Aug. 28, through Sunday, Aug. 31.
- Gossip Girl and her Gay - Gay Wired
Gossip Girl and her GayGay Wired, CA - 3 hours agoSure, instant messaging is a wonderful tool for workplace communication and for late-night, ahem, romantic dalliances. But during those down times in the ...
- Sarah Palin: Mother, moose-hunter...muse? - Los Angeles Times
Sarah Palin: Mother, moose-hunter...muse?Los Angeles Times, CA - 12 hours agoWhatever that spark may be, here is its result: Palin Poetry. We'll post more if tonight's debate fans the creative flames. he looks so lone and sad-eyed ...
- McCray Nickens: A storyteller with grit and grace (The State)
By the time she was in her 70s, Carrie Allen McCray Nickens had already had a long and productive live. She had taught school and been a social worker, earned a master’s degree and was active in the civil rights moment. But she still had another career in her. At 73, she began writing seriously, and during the final two decades of her life published poetry and a book exploring the lives of her ...
- Hundreds march for knife victim Darren, 14 - guardian.co.uk
BBC NewsHundreds march for knife victim Darren, 14guardian.co.uk, UK - 37 minutes agoThe demonstration was organised by family and friends of teenager Darren Pyper who was fatally stabbed in an argument at a party last September. ...Thousands expected at knife march BBC Newsall 18 news articles
- Pulitzer-prize winning poet Carruth dead (Jam! Showbiz)
MUNNSVILLE, N.Y. - Hayden Carruth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world, has died. He was 87.
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