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- Meet Your Neighbor Terry Huston Director energizes historical society (The Oregonian)
Terry Huston has done several kinds of work and lived in different places, but her love of writing and Troutdale's history drew her back home a few years ago.
- Small press, big drama - National Post
National PostSmall press, big dramaNational Post, Canada - 48 minutes agoIn the acknowledgements of Wallin's poetry book A Thousand Profane Pieces, she notes that she wrote one of her poems at Ross's workshop.
- On Poetry: Rhythm washes up in waves (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Here's a question for summer: When the tide goes in and out, when the waves wash up in rhythm, why is it that most contemporary poetry doesn't have a regular rhythm, doesn't rhyme and often doesn't tell a story? What's the pleasure in that? I've been asked this question a lot.
- Bazm-e-Urdu elects new office-bearers - Peninsula On-line
Peninsula On-lineBazm-e-Urdu elects new office-bearersPeninsula On-line, Qatar - May 27, 2008All office bearers said they will contribute their best efforts to promote the Urdu language and literature, especially poetry, in the country with mutual ...
- Sudanese Child Solider Trades Guns for Beats - Policy Innovations
Sudanese Child Solider Trades Guns for BeatsPolicy Innovations, NY - 4 hours ago"I liked it because it reminded me of how people used to talk poetry and rap in my village when I was small," Jal recalled of his first encounter with the ...
- Spin control (Chicago Sun-Times)
ALT-FOLK | Fleet Foxes, "Fleet Foxes" (Sub Pop) Though their wardrobe, beards and burgeoning following are all in step with the leaders of the so-called "freak folk" movement, the Seattle quintet Fleet Foxes distinguishes itself from artists such as Animal Collective and Devendra Banhart because its members are much less emphatically stoner or self-consciously eclectic, and because its ...
- Love in a Tsunami's Aftermath: Assarat's 'Wonderful Town' (The New York Sun)
'Wonderful Town," directed by Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat, takes place in a seaside town in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. Though tourism has tanked, some rebuilding is in progress, and yet a certain malaise seems to have settled after the storm. This potent setting and mood is the backdrop for a fragile love story, but the stillness and vaguely drawn characters doom the movie to ...
- Short Cuts - London Review of Books (subscription)
Short CutsLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 9 hours agoHis versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
- Channeling Tupac: Miami actor-playwright portrays human side of slain ... - Miami Herald
Miami actor Meshaun Lebrone Arnold has written and is starring in The Hate U Gave: The Tupac Shakur Story , which is premiering at Miami Dade College South Campus' Ground Up & Rising Theater. n the surface, slain rapper Tupac Shakur and the deeply ...
- State briefs: Sunday, May 25, 2008 - NewsOK.com (subscription)
State briefs: Sunday, May 25, 2008NewsOK.com (subscription), OK - 5 hours agoNominations will be accepted from universities, poetry societies and other cultural organizations only, not from individuals. ...
- My View: "A Touch of Madness" - ArtslinkNews
ArtslinkNewsMy View: "A Touch of Madness"ArtslinkNews, South Africa - 2 hours ago“A Touch of Madness” offers generous yet crusty insight into the man who lived his poetry out loud, Herman Charles Bosman. The raconteur who gave Bosman’s ...
- Retiring athletes need to grieve - La Crosse Tribune
Brett Favre has a lot of grief work to do. It is unfortunate that he is dragging millions of Packer fans into the process with him. Brett is a talented, spontaneous, likeable man. But this does not spare him the grief of midlife. Brett has much to ...
- Sex and the Reader Discussion Forum - Slate
The movie was being discussed all over Slate, at the " XX Factor " and on Dana Stevens' review , the item on labels , and the discussion at "IM ". "Movies" Fray stalwart lucabrasi (perhaps not surprisingly in view of his Frayname) laid out a great ...
- Argentina's 'loony radio' threatened by hospital closure (The New Zealand Herald)
BUENOS AIRES - With no front teeth, Pacotillo is an unlikely radio sensation. And his patter with members of his on-air posse sounds more like a group therapy session than a Saturday show.
- Family, Friends Remember Teen Killed in Bus Stop Accident - KSDK
Click here to watch video of Elijah's friends and classmates gathering at the bus stop in remembrance of his life. (NewsChannel 5 photo journalist Jeff Wilson) (KSDK) -- Family and friends gathered Tuesday afternoon to read poems, reflect and ...
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