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- Young at Art - Egypt Today
A night of Sufi chanting and live circus performances or a Nancy Agram concert? Poetry readings or Amr Diab crooning live? If you think Arab youth will automatically choose Agram and Diab, think again: With smash hit venues Sakiet El-Sawy and MakAn ...
- Vampire books: Real men have fangs - AZCentral.com
 1/8With series like Twilight,' vampires have crept up from the crypt to the book aisles for women and girls - and found a rich vein of interest. Laura Miller on why the enigmatic guy with an unusual diet is so hard to resist. 3/8 Pulp genres ...
- This week’s book events and lectures - Kansas City Star
This week’s book events and lecturesKansas City Star, MO - 1 hour agoThe Truman Library is sponsoring this forum about two pretty contemporary topics. Scott Simon, host of NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” is the host. ...
- Eric Hartley: A poetic break from sound bites (The Capital)
I happened to ask myself that the other day when a slim volume of poetry caught my eye on the new books shelf at a library. I couldn't remember the last time I'd read one poem, let alone a book of them, so I picked it up. Somehow, though, I haven't found much time to read it yet.
- Veterans' words in poetry - Ashland Daily Tidings
Most people who filled the Angus Bowmer Theatre on Memorial Day to hear veterans recount their experiences were moved to tears. Veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam and their families used poetry and stories to help the audience understand what ...
- Frankfurt Book Fair fetes Turkish-born authors - AFP
AFPFrankfurt Book Fair fetes Turkish-born authorsAFP - 2 hours ago... the world's biggest book fair, in Frankfurt. "I began by writing poems. And with poetry, you do not choose your language, you listen to an inner voice. ...
- Motion warns future laureates about the job - First Post
First PostMotion warns future laureates about the jobFirst Post, UK - 4 minutes ago... poetry - you will find there is an unimaginable difference between leading a relatively private life and the public life suddenly required of you. ...
- Fakier's poems are emotional, engaging - Mmegi Online
Mmegi OnlineFakier's poems are emotional, engagingMmegi Online, Botswana - 41 minutes agoIt is the place where you can always be assured of finding love, a sanctuary that protects you from the rigours of life. In this poem the poet went for the ...Debt Support Service Talk About Debt Offer Help Through Poetry PR Web (press release)all 3 news articles
- Site Presented By - Salon
Brad Pitt, left, and George Clooney in "Burn After Reading." Here's the right word to describe Joel and Ethan Coen's star-studded, pack-of-maroons spy comedy "Burn After Reading" : It's patchy. Of course that sounds like I'm dismissing it, but I don ...
- Linmark in Hawai'i to spread his words (Honolulu Advertiser)
Writer and Fulbright scholar R. Zamora Linmark, the former Honolulu boy whose prose and poems are said to roil with energy, has returned to Hawai'i for a celebration of his work.
- Young designer shows her stuff - Inquirer.net
Young designer shows her stuffInquirer.net, Philippines - 16 hours agoShe grew up experimenting with film, painting, cooking, writing poetry, even editorial and advertising. “But I have chosen fashion,” she says, ...
- Revelations about literary life from the dead poets society (The Buffalo News)
It's 1964. Allen Ginsberg is importuning his old Columbia professor Lionel Trilling to write a letter to the Guggenheim Foundation to land Ginsberg a grant. (“I just want money to subsist whatever I do.”)
- Angelou writing a poem about Obama - Chicago Defender
RALEIGH, N.C.–Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton–affectionately referred to as the nation’s first Black president–asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her ...
- Follow the M3 money to hell - Online Journal
Follow the M3 money to hellOnline Journal, FL - 7 hours agoBy Jerry Mazza Let me not keep you in the dark. As Wikipedia states, our money supply has three large components. M1 is physical currency circulating in the ...
- Remembering 'curious' Terkel - Chicago Tribune
Remembering 'curious' TerkelChicago Tribune, United States - 7 hours agoHe lent his ear to the poetry he heard in the voices of ordinary people and injected vigor into the seemingly dry science of oral history. ...
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