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- Which bits of Michael Jackson turn 50 today? - guardian.co.uk
Which bits of Michael Jackson turn 50 today?guardian.co.uk, UK - 15 hours agoBut what of the Boo Radley of pop, who remains in seclusion following his acquittal on child molestation charges? His public have had to survive on whatever ...
- Encounters at the End of the World - Seattle Times
Encounters at the End of the WorldSeattle Times, United States - 5 hours agoIn this odd and unforgettable place, Herzog has made his own poetry. 99 minutes. By Moira Macdonald Werner Herzog's poetic new documentary, "Encounters at ...
- Oum Kalthoum, a star still shining bright - France24
Oum Kalthoum, a star still shining brightFrance24, France - 4 hours agoFrom these beginnings, she chose poetry as a vehicle to give full power to her art. All along her career, she emphasized poetry from the Muslim world, ...
- Failing Darwish's legacy - Electronic Intifada
Electronic IntifadaFailing Darwish's legacyElectronic Intifada, IL - 3 hours agoIn a 2002 interview, Darwish stated: "I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is ...
- IRAQ: The Love Stories Are Gone - IPS
IRAQ: The Love Stories Are GoneIPS, Italy - 1 hour agoThis is the kind of love story Iraqis tell nowadays. "The country of the Arabian Nights and of wonderful poetry is no longer good for love," Maki al-Nazzal, ...
- Elizabeth Bartlett: Poet of the lonely and vulnerable (Independent)
Although her poems were first published when she was only 19, in Tambimuttu's Poetry London, Elizabeth Bartlett did not publish again until her mid-fifties. However, she claimed that she was "not so much a neglected poet as neglectful of the kind of ways to get published at all . . . it suited me to write without an audience, so I could do what I wanted without an editor or a publisher". As she ...
- Ten Questions: Jo Macsween - Scotsman
Ten Questions: Jo MacsweenScotsman, United Kingdom - 4 hours agoI love the Scottish Poetry Library at Crichton's Close, just off the Royal Mile. It is an architectural gem, filled with a unique collection of books and ...
- MP's sexy sonnets stun staid colleagues (Ilford Recorder)
ROMANTIC MP Harry Cohen has revealed a secret passion - for penning risqué poetry. The upstanding Labour member for Wanstead has scribbled 200 sonnets in just eight months, even more than William Shakespeare managed in his entire lifetime.
- Plotting a Crime - Wall Street Journal
For her new novel "My Sister, My Love," the acclaimed Joyce Carol Oates writes in the voice of 19-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family, a decade after the murder of Skyler's 6-year-old sister Bliss, an ice ...
- The “L†or “l†word - New London Day
OK, you've really got to pay close attention here. You've got to keep track of the upper and the lower case. Letters, that is. Because our subject today is Lesbians. Note: Not lesbians. Note: Well, actually, Lesbians and lesbians but with the ...
- Namibia: Writers Need to Be Subsidized By Govt (AllAfrica.com)
The Government must subsidize local writers because without such financial assistance they can neither creatively produce nor economically survive.
- We don't need a Poet Laureate - Guardian Blogs
Rumoured to have been ruled out in 1999 by Tony Blair, but would Carol Ann Duffy have said yes? Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Chloe Garner's campaign for the appointment of a female Poet Laureate is no doubt well intentioned. I've nothing against ...
- Kiss Me Not - Broward New Times
Kiss Me NotBroward New Times, FL - 6 hours agoDurty Werdz has been loosely described as an erotic poetry slam, and indeed, the monthly event is a raunchy affair. Entrants moan, groan, slurp, and gyrate. ...
- Local author talks about her novel (The Journal Times)
When Patricia Cumbie wanted to set her first novel in a working-class neighborhood, she knew exactly where it should be.
- Poetry Contest Award Winners Will Have Reading June 26 (The Chattanoogan)
Three area poets will read the poems that took first, second, and third place in the inaugural Chattanooga Writers' Guild Poetry Contest.
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