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- A high-speed read (Guardian Unlimited)
Liberties can be taken, and sometimes have to be. One of the liberties that poetry takes, and that prose can't, is temporarily to break up or interrupt a sentence with a line ending.
- Competition celebrates slam poetry (Lincoln Journal Star)
This isn’t the goateed poet in the coffeehouse dive, sporting his beret, sipping an absurdly tiny espresso and passively mumbling a few verses about his gerbil. All while no one in the audience listens.
- The Country Travel - Mother Earth News
The Country TravelMother Earth News, KS - 1 hour agoDuring the four-day event, daytime attractions will be held at Old Tucson and will feature Western music, range lore, and cowboy poetry, as well as yodeling ...
- In StorySlam, strangers go on stage & bare their souls - Philiy.com
IF WHAT'S DONE in the dark will come to light, baring your soul to a shadowy room of strangers could end in disgrace. But at First Person Arts StorySlam, where 10 amateur storytellers mount a dimly lit stage to share details of intimate experiences ...
- Everyday American heroes - Lexington Clipper Herald
Everyday American heroesLexington Clipper Herald, NE - 16 hours ago... DAR sponsored a contest last fall asking students to submit their art, poetry and composition using the theme of Everyday American Heroes. ...
- The Bacchae - Variety
The BacchaeVariety, CA - 19 minutes ago... and the unwitting agent of his grisly death. For all the pyrotechnics of Tiffany's sound-and-light show, it's the pure language of Euripides' poetry and ...
- The Revenger's Tragedy: The bloody classic is given a modern twist - Independent
The Revenger's Tragedy: The bloody classic is given a modern twistIndependent, UK - 9 hours agoHe scored his first big RSC success with a production that highlighted the manic mood-swings between macabre farce and lurid charnel-house poetry, ...
- Poetry: a way with words (phillyburbs.com)
CB students regularly outperform other Bucks County high school students in the annual High School Poet of the Year competition.
- This week a calendar for the bibliophile - New Orleans Times-Picayune Blogs
Features include readings from the book by John Biguenet, Chris Champagne, Greg Herren and James Nolan, as well as a trivia contest, dramatic interpretations, and specialty drinks.
- Writing Tips For Novice Authors - PR Inside
2008-05-25 23:15:03 - So you need to balance your time in writing that book, honing your writing skills, submitting your work along the way for others to critique, and promoting yourself. Can you do it? Of course you can! If you are reading this ...
- Ode to a reborn poet (London Free Press)
I read poetry about as often -- and with about as much enthusiasm -- as I jab sharp sticks into my eyes. I think this aversion started back in high school when I was compelled to read Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.
- AP Top News at 3:36 a.m. EDT (The Washington Times)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Cheered by a roaring crowd, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat. "America, this is our ...
- Murray column: In loving appreciation for a job well done (Macon Telegraph)
She was a working mother when working mothers weren't cool. It was a choice born not out of any sense of gender liberation, but from the necessity of raising a family in a South slow to reap the post-war recovery from the Great Depression.
- Imagining the Pentagon Under a New President (NPR)
The next president will be the first in 40 years to inherit the Pentagon during wartime. While the two candidates' foreign policy advisers both advocate greater accountability at the Pentagon, they disagree on how to handle Iraq.
- Is it city sponsored, the municipal band played - Manhattan Mercury
that said something along the lines of: If you don't know a man well enough to judge his character than look at the people he associates with. "The former president, who publicly endorsed Barack Obama shortly before polls closed Tuesday in the final ...
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