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- Write on: Gathering for scribes of all sorts (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Writers of all experience levels and of all genres - from novels and short stories to memoirs, journals and poetry - will seek fellowship, comfort, advice, and even tough love from one another this weekend at the 60th Annual Philadelphia Writers' Conference.
- Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke takes new approach with '24 City.' - Los Angeles Times
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke takes new approach with '24 City.'Los Angeles Times, CA - 4 hours agoOthers are characters played by recognizable actors, including Joan Chen, the Chinese American star of "The Last Emperor" and TV's "Twin Peaks," and Jia's ...
- Office Drones, Without the Buzz - New York Observer
I VOLUNTEERED TO REVIEW THIS novel by my former Village Voice co-worker Ed Park because I assumed the conflicts of interest would be so blatant they’d implode—a roman à clef, in which I myself might play a minor role, about the alt-weekly where ...
- 'Hey, boss, what's your sign?' - Globe and Mail
If astrology is the basis for the world's flakiest pickup line in a bar, imagine how it would go over in a job interview. But don't be so dismissive of the benefits of asking colleagues, business associates, even your boss about the alignment of ...
- Cider supper tests poet's mettle - Ledbury Reporter
Cider supper tests poet's mettleLedbury Reporter, UK - 3 hours agoBy Gary Bills-Geddes THE age-old question as to whether poets can hold their drink should be solved at this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival, where the local ...
- Sunflower musicians play Mozart arias tonight - Topeka Capitol-Journal
Opera without singing will be part of tonight's final chamber ensemble concert at the Sunflower Music Festival. The penultimate performance of the 22nd annual chamber music festival includes a woodwind octet playing various arias from Wolfgang ...
- Matthew Francis's workshop - Guardian
GuardianMatthew Francis's workshopGuardian, UK - 24 minutes agoMatthew Francis's first collection Blizzard, was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the Forward poetry prize and won the Southern Arts literature ...
- From books to celluloid - Mid-Day Mumbai
From books to celluloidMid-Day Mumbai, India - 2 hours ago... her Nobel lecture, Polish poetess Wislawa Szymborska called writing poetry the most uninspiring of professions when it came to being captured on film. ...
- American Pain Foundation and HealthCentral Network Announce Call for Artistic Submissions for Creativity and Pain ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Organizations Seeking Images, Text, Video and Quilt Blocks as Expressions of Personal Pain Experience
- Change and decay - New Statesman
New StatesmanChange and decayNew Statesman, UK - 2 hours agoA glassy new building dwarfing a dilapidated pub retains far more poetry and mystery than would the restoration of said pub, or its conversion into "luxury ...
- Sagebrush Serenade set for June 28 - Reno Gazette Journal
Sagebrush Serenade set for June 28Reno Gazette Journal, NV - 33 minutes agoCowboy poetry and music lovers, mark your calendars Saturday, June 28, for the 2nd Annual Sagebrush Serenade. A fundraiser for the Smith Valley Chapter of ...
- Caution: Mangled metaphor ahead - Power Line
Caution: Mangled metaphor aheadPower Line, MN - 13 hours agoThe crossroads is a venerable metaphor in American song and poetry. Robert Johnson devoted a seminal blues song to it in "Crossroads Blues" and Robert Frost ...
- Danny Abse wins Wales book of the year (NewsWales)
Poet Dannie Abse has won the ten thousand pounds Wales Book of the Year 2008 for his book The Presence, a journal of his grief after his wife died in a car accident.
- Oak Park grad's writing career takes off like a firecracker - Chicago Tribune
Oak Park grad's writing career takes off like a firecrackerChicago Tribune, United States - 17 minutes agoIt was a shock for the Forest Park resident who concedes her early writing was mainly bad poetry about unrequited love and razor blades. ...
- Greatest Generation meets young generation (Cape Cod Times)
HARWICH — Tales of strafing runs through anti-aircraft fire, laughter about "shacking up" and memories of watching people blown to bits came rushing back for 92 veterans of World War II last night.
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