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- Edward Albee at 80: Still a 'Young Troublemaker' - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalEdward Albee at 80: Still a 'Young Troublemaker'Wall Street Journal - 1 hour agoAt 18 he lit out for Greenwich Village, where he wrote bad poetry, worse fiction, then took up drama "because I'd failed at the other things," he said. ...
- Hard Corps (Washington City Paper)
“Anybody know what clichés are?†I ask the class, searching the sea of faces for a hint of recognition. “Yeah,†responds a lanky, dark-skinned girl. “Ain’t that like when you say something but a lot of people done already said it, like ‘cry like a baby’ or ‘dumb as a doorknob.’â€
- BOOK REVIEW: On the dusty road to redemption - Miami Herald
In terms of literary chutzpah, writing your sophomore novel about a sophomore novelist is the kind of thing that tends to send eyebrows arching skyward. Maybe not as much as titling it "Winner of the National Book Award," as Jincy Willett once did ...
- Pete Cashmore and Peter Robinson get the skinny on four of the West ... - Guardian Unlimited
Based on a storyline drawn up by Ben Elton on a napkin at the Groucho, Staten Island Boys pulls no punches in its depiction of the early hardships and triumphs of the the nine-headed hip-hop hydra that is the Wu. However, rap historians have noted ...
- History of Same Sex Marriage Jurisprudence - OpEdNews
History of Same Sex Marriage JurisprudenceOpEdNews, PA - 6 hours agoPoetry: The Refined Savage Poetry Review - Refined Savage Editions; Unfinished Works - AIDS Services Foundation – Orange County December 2005; ...
- 'Bottoms Up' at Calabash! - Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica Gleaner'Bottoms Up' at Calabash!Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 2 hours agoThe routine may vary a little, depending on the kind of thing I have to read, whether a speech or a citation or poetry or a bit from a novel, ...
- Two jazz operas premier in Oakland - Oakland Tribune
Two new jazz operas are coming to town beginning Thursday. The first piece, "The Sisyphus Syndrome," by Black Power poet-playwright Amiri Baraka and sax man David Murray, opens Thursday. The Baraka-Murray duo combines poetry, live music and mixed ...
- Poetry and prose writers invited to share work - Salina Journal
Poetry and prose writers invited to share workSalina Journal, KS - 2 hours agoLocal and regional writers of poetry and prose are invited to share their work at the quarterly Open Microphone for Writers from 7 to 8:30 pm Tuesday at the ...
- Jacksonville poetry artists look forward to international slam (The Florida Times-Union)
Lucie Roberts is enthusiastic about spitting - the hip-hop term that has found its way to spoken-word poetry.
- Billy Joel diehard becomes his hero on stage (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
Matthew Friedman stars in touring ‘Movin’ Out,’ BTL’s season-closing production
- Pupil hopes to save the rainforests through poetry - This is South Cotswolds
A PUPIL from Alveston has inspired her colleagues with a poem about saving the rainforests. Ozioma Kamalu, 13, a year eight pupil from Marlwood School, penned her poem, entitled Save the Rainforests, as part of a school project. Teachers at Marlwood ...
- I’m still top of the mops, says Boris Johnson's father (Times Online)
During his first days in office, somebody should let the new mayor of London know that he must change the announcements on the Tube. They annoy his father Stanley, a classical scholar.
- Elderly poet is well-versed in humor (Leader-Telegram)
Norma Desprez doesn't hide her age. She embraces it. The 88-year-old Eau Claire grandmother writes about her golden years in the new poetry book "Silhouettes of Aging: An Octogenarian's Retort."
- Do we protest too much about where we write? - Guardian Blogs
In a city bereft of a location with equivalent bookish cache to the British Library, entrepreneurs in Manhattan have provided New York's literati (as in anyone, published or not, who can afford to pay a hefty annual fee) with an opportunity to get ...
- Bishop's Daughter' author Honor Moore performs reading at Trinity - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Bishop's Daughter' author Honor Moore performs reading at TrinityThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 1 hour agoThe New York writer with Cleveland connections (her great-uncle, Leonard C. Hanna Jr., was a Cleveland philanthropist and arts patron) is here as a poetry ...
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