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- The Art of Politics - Newsweek
NewsweekThe Art of PoliticsNewsweek - 39 minutes agoSafely out of office in 1995, former president Jimmy Carter published a book of poetry on subjects ranging from childhood reminiscence ("Of Possum and ...
- Anaïs Mitchell: Hitting a High Note - WCAX
Anaïs Mitchell: Hitting a High NoteWCAX, VT - 1 hour agoThe 'poetry of songwriting.'" She admits to the kids she needed to overcome stage fright. Mitchell tells them, "It's a skill like any other, getting up in ...
- Robicheaux returns: this time he’s in Montana - 2TheAdvocate
Robicheaux returns: this time he’s in Montana2TheAdvocate, LA - 10 minutes agoWhether Burke is describing Louisiana or Texas or Montana, he achieves the same lyricism by using near-poetry to set his scene. That’s true in this book, ...
- Hugh Muir's diary (Guardian Unlimited)
Hugh Muir: Some things are non-negotiable. David Cameron will have no truck with ID cards
- East Bay Briefings - Providence Journal
East Bay BriefingsProvidence Journal, RI - 1 hour agoPoetry writing course: A poetry writing series will be held this summer at Barrington Library. Led by community services librarian Lauri Burke and Kara ...
- Henry Rollins, US punk icon and anti-poet, London-bound - London Free Press
Henry Rollins, US punk icon and anti-poet, London-boundLondon Free Press, Canada - 4 hours ago"Poetry and me are like oil and water . . . I always like what Nietzsche said about poets. He said, 'poets are those who muddy the waters to make them ...
- Book Review: Double Vision by Pat Barker (Blogcritics.org)
A tender, surprising novel where strong emotions are traded. Double Vision by Pat Barker is a novel that defies description. Within its pages there is war, crime, murder, rape, love, hate, sex, artistry, creativity, duplicity, anger, tenderness, inspiration: a dictionary might have enough words to list its subtleties. What it has aplenty is feeling and emotion, an ability to convey its ...
- On the Topic of St. Louis (Riverfront Times)
Sometimes finding a suitable topic is the most difficult part of writing. University of Missouri-St. Louis MFA writer-in-residence Joy Katz circumvented that issue by charging the poets and writers of the UMSL Graduate Writers' Association with writing specifically about St. Louis. During an all-day ...
- Teens find free expression (Miami Herald)
Jon Kowalsky takes a stand each time he steps on stage. ''The message I want to broadcast is for people to open their hearts to new experiences and to pursue truth with an open mind,'' the Hollywood teen said.
- THIS 'PORT AUTHORITY' IS WORTH A VISIT (Asbury Park Press)
Recollections of regret are the soul of "Port Authority," a series of three superb, interlocking monologues by Conor McPherson that offers ample evidence why the Irish playwright is one of the finest writers for the stage today.
- Video: Tough times for used booksellers - Enterprise
Stepping into the 19th century barn housing Vintage Books, visitors are surrounded by cabinets and shelves holding 35,000 volumes about everything from Paleolithic cave paintings to a cookbook of Dutch recipes. Behind the wooden counter, co-owner ...
- Love's labor’s lost in post-invasion Iraq (Middle East Online)
Stories of broken engagements, marriages are heard everywhere in Iraq post US invasion.
- She won't go easy - Salon
She won't go easySalon - 3 hours agoPoetry vs. fear The Obama-McCain contest will hold up a mirror to America's soul. By Gary Kamiya Clinton and Obama on Al-Jazeera The Arab network has ...
- The best new nature books for Spring - Times Online
The best new nature books for SpringTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoThis one sets about the task imaginatively, with categories such as “Birds with a black throat†and “Birds with a black cheekâ€. The only problem is that one ...
- The Movie Masochist: The unexpected, undeserving summer hit - Miami Herald
Hollywood's stream of bad movies usually seems endless, but sometimes there's a drought. This often happens during the summer, when all the big studio movies stomp their way into multiplexes after marking their opening weekends with the noise and ...
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