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- Few treasures found in 'Boxes' - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Few treasures found in 'Boxes'Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 55 minutes agoit makes for the best parts of his memoir "Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry" (Houghton Mifflin, 208 pages, $24). ...
- Literature has a voice at Helicon West’s public readings (Herald Journal)
The audience listens to the performer during a recent Helicon West gathering. (Meegan M. Reid/Herald Journal) Im the first to acknowledge many don’t like poetry. I do.
- Funeral home for pets opens in Orchard Park (The Buffalo News)
Wine-colored drapes and vases of flowers evoke a solemn tone for visitors who walk through the doors of Orchard Park's newest funeral home.
- White Light, White Heat - Nashville Scene
White Light, White HeatNashville Scene, USA - 2 hours agoAnyone who read it was likely struck by the poem's lack of, well, poetry—especially since White's lyrics are rarely without some measure of it. ...
- Playwright's own story adds a personal touch to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Sarah Ruhl turns around the tale of Eurydice and Orpheus by seeing it from the point of view of Eurydice, and what she finds in the underworld and perhaps the real reason Orpheus looks back.
- Book Briefs: Aug. 31, 2008 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Book Briefs: Aug. 31, 2008Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA - 58 minutes agoThis summer, Stephenie Meyer's banner may have been carried high by hordes of teen vampire lovers, but adults were pretty darned excited about their books ...
- Arts Café hosts National Book Award winner Friday (Westerly Sun)
National Book Award winner Gerald Stern, the first poet laureate of New Jersey and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, will open the fall Arts Café~Mystic series on Friday, Sept. 19. He will read from his newly published 15th collection of poems, “Save the Last Dance.â€
- COMMUNITY CALENDAR (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
MONUMENT INSCRIPTION WORKSHOP — 2 p.m., Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt. Auburn St. Help preserve inscriptions on Mt. Auburn’s 19th century monuments. Free. For information, call 617-607-1981.
- An author's life/Ken Wylie (Northern Express)
“I went to West Africa for two years. Those two years were a transforming experience for me, an absolutely transforming experience.†Ken Wylie speaks like a writer, with detailed descriptions full of novelistic digressions, dramatic and sweeping.
- Acapulco to host the World Congress of Poets - PV Mirror
PV MirrorAcapulco to host the World Congress of PoetsPV Mirror, Mexico - 2 hours agoWithin the frame of such event, lectures and book presentations will also take place under the theme: "Poetry in the Intimacy of the Soul". ...
- The Invention of Scotland - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalThe Invention of ScotlandWall Street Journal - 2 hours agoOssian's poetry caused a sensation across Europe and was devoured by everyone from Goethe to Napoleon -- though Trevor-Roper himself dismisses Ossian's ...
- AZADI AND OTHER SUSPECTS - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphAZADI AND OTHER SUSPECTSCalcutta Telegraph, India - 3 minutes agoThe poet dances and recites his revolutionary poetry as he circles, refusing to condemn the executions, the day before, of a socialist activist and a ...
- Anna's birth centenary celebrations begin in TN - Hindu
Anna's birth centenary celebrations begin in TNHindu, India - 3 hours ago... birthday in the best possible way. AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa announced that her party would organise literary programmes such as debates and poetry ...
- It's time to forget about rememberance - The Cord Weekly
It's time to forget about rememberanceThe Cord Weekly, Canada - 33 minutes ago... from topics as (potentially) relevant as American Politics and the War on Terror, to topics as baffling as Plato’s Republic and Old English epic poetry. ...
- Biffy Clyro : Singles 2001 - 2005 - Playlouder news
Biffy Clyro : Singles 2001 - 2005Playlouder news, UK - 3 hours agoWallowing in a kind of bleached denim nostalgia and oblique bad-emo-poetry lyricism, their very name is an infuriating mix of mystery and meaninglessness. ...
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