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- If you don’t want to write about sex, don’t follow your character ... - The Punch
If you don’t want to write about sex, don’t follow your character ...The Punch, Nigeria - 2 hours agoAs renowned as the Ikere Ekiti-born poet is, the last chieftaincy title he will accept from you is that of the Asiwaju of Nigeria or African Poets, ...
- A jarring look at an earlier entertainment era in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Times)
Two minstrel pairs, one of them black, drew enthusiastic local crowds and lavish praise in the press. Seventy years ago, on Aug. 20, 1938, The Times published an editorial mourning the death of Thomas K. Heath, one of vaudeville's biggest stars in what is now the largely vanished phenomenon of the minstrel show.
- Inuk artist raises her voice - Northern News Services (subscription)
Northern News Services (subscription)Inuk artist raises her voiceNorthern News Services (subscription), Canada - 4 hours agoPartridge has played with poetry for a long time but she got into spoken word performance about four years ago. She had been living in the south for about ...
- Slam poets head to nationals - Lincoln Journal Star
The poets are going to the show. Next week, the Nebraska Writers Collective team will head to Madison, Wis., to compete at the 2008 National Poetry Slam. The annual five-day event is the largest poetry performance gathering in the world. The Lincoln ...
- Writers from Austria and Cameroon read Sept. 14 in Prairie Lights - Media Newswire (press release)
Writers from Austria and Cameroon read Sept. 14 in Prairie LightsMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 8 minutes ago... poetry and playwriting -- Tarek Eltayeb from Austria and John Nkengasong from Cameroon -- will present a free reading at 5 pm Sunday, Sept. ...
- The Avant-Funk Visions of pc muñoz - East Bay Express
This guy has no flow!" laughs pc muñoz, imagining what hip-hop audiences must think of his sing-speak vocal delivery. In a sense, the statement and all it implies is at the core of muñoz's avant-funk vision. You see, the San Francisco producer ...
- The Essentials | City Weekly's Entertainment Picks September 18-24 - Salt Lake City Weekly
Salt Lake City WeeklyThe Essentials | City Weekly's Entertainment Picks September 18-24Salt Lake City Weekly, UT - 5 hours agoHer fourth volume of poetry Fault (Red Hen Press) charts a path across the natural environs, both within our state borders and in the larger world from ...
- 'Enemy Slayer' part of big week at Colorado Music Festival - Daily Camera
'Enemy Slayer' part of big week at Colorado Music FestivalDaily Camera, CO - 39 minutes agoGiven the power of Grey's music and Tohe's poetry, the inclusion of a visual perspective on this story might seem superfluous. ...
- Governor Schwarzenegger Applauds Appointment of Kay Ryan as Poet ... - Imperial Valley News
Governor Schwarzenegger Applauds Appointment of Kay Ryan as Poet ...Imperial Valley News, CA - Jul 18, 2008... serves from October to May and seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry. ...
- Now batting for SDSU, Haaaarold Jaffe! - San Diego Union-Tribune
Harold Jaffe started as a scholar, with a strong interest in Walt Whitman. He studied with top Whitman scholars at New York University like Gay Wilson Allen, while earning his Ph.D. there in the 1960s. But by the mid-1970s, Jaffe felt the need to ...
- Town puts art and soul into festival - This is Wiltshire
ART lovers in Melksham will get the chance to appreciate the talents of others in the town at a two-day festival planned for later this month. Melksham Arts For All will be holding their first ever Community Arts Festival on September 20 and 21 ...
- Unwitting players in a dangerous wargame - Pique newsmagazine
Unwitting players in a dangerous wargamePique newsmagazine, Canada - 1 hour agoBy Jesse Ferreras The players are ordinary, unwitting Bosnian civilians who go about their daily lives, collecting bread and water amidst a war-torn urban ...
- Anthony J. Russo, 71, Pentagon Papers Figure, Dies (New York Times)
Mr. Russo was a shaggy-haired, unemployed policy wonk when he teamed up with the buttoned-down Daniel Ellsberg to leak the top-secret government history of the Vietnam War called the Pentagon Papers.
- On The Campaign Trail - American Reporter
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. -- They embrace me with friendship, encircle me with support for my literary efforts, and although I already consider myself "rich," I am made richer by knowing them. I think of them as brothers, not of the flesh but of the spirit ...
- Peek at the Week - Palatine Countryside
Peek at the WeekPalatine Countryside, il - 16 minutes ago"Life's Unique Journey" 2008 Juried International Visual Art and Poetry Exhibition. Nov. 18-Dec. 30. Seeking art in all media reflecting artist's ...
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