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- Thomas Dolby - PopMatters
PopMattersThomas DolbyPopMatters, IL - 24 minutes agoHer chord sequences, poetry, unusual guitar tunings, and lush piano ballads are absolutely original, brave, and transcendent. Probably her zenith was this ...
- Outfront and center: Bad poetry returns! (The Charlotte Observer)
When the Observer's Doug Robarchek retired in 2005, the humor columnist known as the Outfront Guy single-handedly caused a citywide shortage of cheesy jokes that make you laugh in spite of yourself. For readers who've been jonesing for an Outfront fix ever since, great news: A new book, “The Best of the World's Worst Poetry: 20 Very Odd Years of OutFrontery,†($14, Main Street Rag). Most of ...
- Nebula Awards puts Austin and Texas writers at center of science ... - Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning NewsNebula Awards puts Austin and Texas writers at center of science ...Dallas Morning News, TX - 19 minutes agoAnother Texan, 78-year-old Ardath Mayhar of Chireno, author of some 60 books of fiction and poetry, will be deemed author emeritus. ...
- GO: A fortunate coincidence - Standard Freeholder
GO: A fortunate coincidenceStandard Freeholder, Canada - 2 hours ago"I was always interested in languages, and this is the perfect job for me as I work with language, poetry and voice. "You don't get that when you're ...
- Nonfiction review: Masters of 'Make-Believe' - San Francisco Chronicle
Nonfiction review: Masters of 'Make-Believe'San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 21 minutes ago... where I yearned for the poetry and magic behind the bottom line. "Minders" picks up considerably for me, a child of the '50s and '60s, ...
- Pianist Stephen Hough, in recital here Friday, also is a noted ... - Toledo Blade
Pianist Stephen Hough, in recital here Friday, also is a noted ...Toledo Blade, OH - 7 hours agoIn fact, the keyboard seems to have served Hough as a springboard for many creative endeavors such as musical composition, prose and poetry, philosophy, ...
- Rant: Crappy Band Names Trump Indie Appeal - Cinema Blend
Rant: Crappy Band Names Trump Indie AppealCinema Blend - 20 hours agoWhy do your names have to be dark and brooding? Why do you have to confuse people with your cryptic meta-poetry? Why do you appeal to a mind frame that ...
- College students share secrets for Love Your Body Week (The Sacramento Bee)
Sierra College today kicks off its second annual Love Your Body Week with a host of activities to celebrate the human form, including a display of students' anonymous comments about their "body secrets."
- "Festival of Tears": the tragic history of lynchings (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
NEW PALTZ — They didn’t always do it in the dead of night. Sometimes, the sun was shining. Word would go out and hundreds of people would turn up from all over.
- Festival kids events: October Innocence, Dreams of Hope - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Festival kids events: October Innocence, Dreams of HopePittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 2 hours agoThrough dance and self-penned songs and poetry, the youths will dramatize experiences in their life and struggles with sexual orientation. ...
- ‘Bird’ flies again: One-man play recreates the life of Charlie Parker - Yarmouth Register
‘Bird’ flies again: One-man play recreates the life of Charlie ParkerYarmouth Register, MA - 3 hours agoHe engages the audience directly at times: bumming a cigarette or seducing an attractive woman with poetry; alternately, he’s talking to characters filled ...
- Wednesday's Community News: Brenda Lucas - Huntington Herald Dispatch
Wednesday's Community News: Brenda LucasHuntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 1 hour agoFirst-place elementary winners for poetry were Shellie Adkins, Salt Rock; Kayleigh Gwin and Jessica Maxwell, Cox Landing; Alena Krause and Taylor Jordan, ...
- Listening Post / Brief Reviews of Select Releases - RedOrbit
Listening Post / Brief Reviews of Select ReleasesRedOrbit, TX - 13 minutes agoIt's a gem composed in equal parts of righteous anger, wistful slice-of-life poetry, literary character sketches and startlingly consistent folk-based ...
- Book fair hopes to spread joy of reading (Detroit Free Press)
Good literature gives people a sense of themselves and a sense of the bigger world, says award-winning writer Jacqueline Woodson.
- Of verse and violent crime (Toronto Star)
Crime may not always pay, but writing about it certainly does – it's consistently a lead news item, and murder mysteries and TV shows like CSI are widely popular on the fictional front. So why shouldn't the luridly topical be a subject for poetry, too?
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