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Daily Mail | Love poetry? Get between these sheets Daily Mail Some poets have something to say but take a long, hard time saying it; others are as translucent as glass. There are poets who wrap meaning up until you suspect game-playing and give up because life is too short. Others offer a short cut to ... Poetry and Trains, Operating at Strolling Speed |
The Poetry of Downsizing New York Times “Of course, coming from New Jersey and in my case from Ireland,” said Mr. Muldoon, 62, the poetry editor of The New Yorker and a professor at Princeton, “I hadn't quite put two and two together that one needed money to buy an apartment.” “It was an ... |
Lorraine Onduru - for the Love of Poetry AllAfrica.com After years of playing around with stories and articles, Lorraine Onduru decided that her heart was in poetry. To her poetry is way of expressing her own experiences and that of other people she has encountered. "I realised that I could write stories ... |
Lincoln Times-News | Northern Irish poet finds love, art in region Lincoln Times-News Northern Ireland native Adrian Rice had no idea his five-week visit to the United States in 1999 would be the starting point of a future life here. Lenoir-Rhyne University, in connection with the Catawba County Arts Council, had invited Adrian through ... |
Newport News poet expresses love of family in verse Daily Press Award-winning Newport News poet Ann Falcone Shalaski was born in Connecticut and "nurtured by a warm, loving, and at times loud Italian family," according to her website. Her work has been published in The Comstock Review, Meridian Anthology of ... |
Mary Oliver loves her dogs and writes sweet poems about them; she doesn't love ... OregonLive.com It's easy to write bad poetry about dogs. God is dog spelled backwards, pup spelled backwards is still pup, and so on. Rudyard Kipling's “The Power of the Dog” has a stanza that begins “When the fourteen years which Nature permits/Are closing in asthma ... |
Love Poetry And Revolution: A Journey Through The British Psychedelic And ... The Quietus If there's something about the garage and psych scenes of the mid to late 60s and thereabouts, it's that they'll live and die by the compilation. Ever since the nuclear-strength impact of Nuggets and everything that's followed over the following four ... |
Daniel Perez Pens Love Poems in '[two]' Broadway World An original collection of poetry, "two" (published by Lulu) by Daniel Perez, submerges the reader into the reality of finding perfection in love. With personal Polaroids scattered throughout the pages to demonstrate the beauty of the muse, Perez has ... |
New Poetry Compilation From BAM is Released Broadway World BAM, a gutsy 62 year old, releases her new collection of poetry "Poetic Thoughts in the Keys of Happiness" (published by Trafford Publishing), centered around past loves, acquaintances and friends. Written with flair and pizzazz, "Poetic Thoughts in ... |
Billy Collins keeps it perfectly simple in his new poetry collection, 'Aimless ... Plain Dealer Billy Collins has spent decades popularizing poetry, and I, for one, am furious. Look up “accessible” in the dictionary, and his impish face grins back. Yet will the semiliterate masses trouble themselves to dip into something more challenging? Will ... |
Puducherry-based poet explores love in its different shades Times of India "In each language in our country, there are our own tales, songs, jokes and poems. All knowledgeable readers cherish Gaadhaa Saptashati, an ancient collection of love poems in Sanskrit attributed to King Hala," said Raja who has so far published 28 ... |
The Poetry of Illustration, the Illustration of Poetry: Frog and Toad Together ... - Huffington Post
The Poetry of Illustration, the Illustration of Poetry: Frog and Toad Together ... Huffington Post What I loved about the books was the various situations Lobel puts the amphibians in and how they reacted both within the context of misadventure and with each other. "Frog and Toad Confront the Alterity of Otherness" arose out of a similar desire: to ... |
Infectious Collections: Stories And Poems To Convert Any Reader WUWM This post is for everyone who passes right by the poetry section; all the bookish types who haven't read a short story since graduation. We know you're out there — and you're not alone. I'm talking to you, folks who love literature — novel-devourers ... |
Anthology of Tamil love poems now in Assamese Times of India GUWAHATI: It is considered to be one of the oldest and most beautiful collections of love poems in the history of world literature. Much to the benefit of litterateurs of the state, the 'Kuruntokai', an anthology of classical Tamil love lyrics composed ... |
Season brings changes to Elmira poetry posts Elmira Star-Gazette The one exception to the love poem theme is a sweet, melancholy song for the season, “Wild Geese” by Corning songwriter and recording artist Mary Lu Walker in Katy Leary Park, according to a press release. The goal of the Poetry Posts Project is to ... |
Things I Hate about San Francisco's Gentrification: A Love Poem Bay Area Indymedia For three weeks in August-September 2013, I returned to San Francisco for what was supposed to be an eight-week respite from caretaking my mom, whose rare form of cancer seemed to be relatively under control. My dad had died about three months earlier ... |
Telegraph.co.uk | Why WH Auden is a spellbinding poet Telegraph.co.uk WH Auden was an astonishingly versatile poet. He wrote about rocks, about love, about psychoanalysis, about the bacteria that live on our skin, about war and about cooking. In the Thirties he was a political poet; after going to America he re-embraced ... |
The Guardian | The best poetry of 2013 The Guardian Share0 / Related information / Books / Best books · / Best books of 2013 · / Best books of the year · / Don Paterson · / Poetry · / Sean O'Brien · / Culture / The best children's literature of 2013 / 7 Dec 2013 / From picture books for toddlers to ... |
'10 Honest Thoughts On Being Loved By A Skinny Boy' Breaks Down Every ... Huffington Post That's how Rachel Wiley opened her slam poem, "10 Honest Thoughts On Being Loved By A Skinny Boy," at the 2013 National Poetry Slam. In the poem, Wiley shares some poignant observations about her relationship with a thinner man, from wondering ... |
Telegraph.co.uk | CS Lewis memorial: A stone for a lover, not for a poet Telegraph.co.uk At the dedication of a memorial (pictured here) to C S Lewis in Poets' Corner yesterday, the Westminster Abbey choir sang one of his poems, “Love's as Warm as Tears” (to a setting by Paul Mealor, who wrote the music for Ubi Caritas at the wedding of ... |
Poems Recount Love, Death in Modern Troy WNIJ and WNIU In the late 14th Century, poet Geoffrey Chaucer mined Greek mythology to retell the story of two lovers from ancient Troy. His book, Troilus and Criseyde, is considered by scholars to be his best work. You'll find a synopsis below, but the first thing ... |
Husband translates Pavlova: Dedicated to the One I Love Russia Beyond The Headlines Seymour first heard of Pavlova through her poetry, which captured his imagination. He explains, “I didn't know who she was or what she was, but I wanted to befriend her somehow or at least meet her.” When they did finally meet – and fall in love – he ... |
Will poets writing smut be jailed? ummid.com Love poetry, if it is good, will lend itself to two interpretations: the spiritual and the physical. Separate the physical and it will easily degenerate into the carnal. Place this material in the hands of Jafar Zatalli (he was executed by a later ... |
Other Countries, Other Shores New York Times We love poets for the things their poems lead us to imagine; but equally, we love them for how we imagine their lives to be. Confusing poets' lives with their work is an illusion as old as the tradition of confusing words with objects. But in fact it ... |
Love, loss and other crazy-makers Sacramento News & Review “Grow this space tall and deep, beyond the simpleness of corners, feed it our succulentness, fatten it up juicy, it will be merrier with more,” writes Laura Martin in her poem “My Big Space.” Martin performs Moetry (“music” plus “poetry”) with the Soft ... |
Q&A: Mary Lambert Spins Success of Macklemore's 'Same Love' Into Issues ... Radio.com News The Seattle singer-songwriter-poet has had a big 2013, propelled by her unlikely ascent into the mainstream — just like fellow Washingtonians Wanz and Ray Dalton before her — as a featured artist on “Same Love,” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' same-sex ... |
Book review | 'Dog Songs' The Courier-Journal “Dog Songs,” the 30th and newest of Mary Oliver's poetry collections, contains 35 poems, one essay about dogs, and 11 pen-and-ink drawings of dogs. To anyone who has ever loved a dog, these poems speak to the heart of knowing an animal that loves ... |
The Guardian | Egypt's Top Satirical Poet Dies at 84 ABC News His poems lampooned an elite seen as co-opted by successive regimes or isolated from the rest of the nation, although one of the country's top businessmen was a vocal fan. His verse also reflected both a love for his country and scathing criticism of ... Egypt's 'poet of the people' Ahmed Fouad Negm dies at 84 Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egypt's 'poet of the people,' dies at 84 |
Spelling it out: Kleinzahler's “Hotel Oneira” and Collins's “Aimless Love” New Statesman Aimless Love selects work from Billy Collins's four most recent collections and includes 51 new poems. Collins, a New Yorker, is a former US poet laureate. He is hugely popular in the States and since his fans clearly like what they're getting, he ... |
Daily Beast | Why We Love 'Duck Dynasty' Daily Beast Rather that thrilling to conflict that pits nation against nation, or human against alien, we're reverting to the themes and narrative structures of epic poetry. As I said of last year's blockbuster fiction franchises, the epic poem is back, it's viral ... |
Daily News & Analysis | Poetry in music Daily News & Analysis The result is a mesmerising musical poetry. The musical compositions retain the serenity, serious mood and temperament of the original ghazal that originated, as well as it fondness for unattainable love but they may not necessarily adhere to the rules ... |
Book review: Temperance in Neal Imperial's 'Silver Fish, Hook of Moon' GMA News Despite the last chapter being mainly comprised of poems on love and intimacy, we find here four poems that are commentaries on the issue of prostitution, as in “Floor Show”: Sa makintab na entablado/nagkakahugis/ang mga nilulunok na panaginip. |
Harvard Magazine | Sestinas from the Clinic Harvard Magazine The volume concludes with warm love poems (“You're the heaven I'm still rising towards”), but its power rests with its patients and their troubles—in the repeated worry of the phrase “I'm not a real doc without my white coat,” with the hospitalized ... |
David Malouf, Tim Winton, Geordie Williamson: their books of the year The Australian I BEGAN the year reading Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer prize-winning poetry collection Life on Mars, with its plaiting of science and fiction with David Bowie, her father's invention of the Hubble Telescope and a poetic meditation on the large and unknown ... |
The Gift of Romance and an Unnecessarily Epic Commercial E! Online (blog) Have I read it? No. How do I know it's good? I've seen the commercial and I'll tell you this: You don't set the commercial for your anthology of love poetry to the theme from the Olympics if it's not the greatest collection of love poems ever put to paper. |
The Unknown Self Silver Chips Online Matam wrote his first poem when he was 10 years old after he had just watched an episode of the Power Rangers. One of the Power Rangers fell in love with a guy who wrote poetry, which surprised Matam. "I was like wow! You can do that? You can write ... |
Times of India | Packing up with punches and poetry Times of India Said Gulzar sahab to the packed hall that drowned his voice with applause after every sentence, "How can we understand storytelling, and what it teaches us about love, if we don't get time that my generation got from our grandparents?" He also read out ... |
Poems honour memorable grandparents and their life on the farm TheChronicleHerald.ca Chad Norman's sentimental account of the farm-based love of grandparents might not please professors of literature, who might improve some lines of text, but no matter; anyone who has ever played in an old farm loft or shared Sunday dinner with a farm ... |
The Hindu | The bard's tongue The Hindu My parents however inculcated love for the motherland and taught me to embrace my culture. I think it helped me understand things better. This is my first book even though I've written poetry for over 20 years. I had small children and put my career on ... |
New York Times | A Changing Terrain of Love New York Times Folk songs and legends that celebrate love in all its forms have been wildly popular through the ages. Go to a Sufi shrine during the annual celebration of a saint's death, and you'll see thousands reciting mystical poetry devoted to the Beloved, or God. |
Nikki Giovanni reflects on 'Chasing Utopia,' and other struggles MSNBC “There's nothing in the Second Amendment–I'm not a lawyer, I'm just a poet–that says that every fool has to have a gun.” Harris-Perry concluded by asking Giovanni about the connection between poetry and humanity. “Poetry loves us,” Giovanni responded. Nikki Giovanni on Poetry, Grief and Her New Book, "Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid" |
Frederick resident gives back to recovery center this Christmas Longmont Daily Times-Call ... Lecocq is on the upswing and hoping to bring some joy to patients at the center with gift baskets void of typical holiday triggers. Puzzles to fill lonely days and inspirational poetry will convey a hopeful message to clients who can face ... |
How I Grew to Love 'The House on Mango Street' Flavorwire I read each vignette like a piece of poetry, because it finally revealed itself as that to me. I parsed out phrases, read them at my own pace, let the words make me feel whatever instead of putting my energies towards making some B.S. analysis. I read ... |
Inauguration poet Richard Blanco describes his path to 'One Today' Los Angeles Times There's not the idea of a high and a low art, but rather that poetry comes from its very people. The bottom line is they weren't scared of poetry. They loved poetry. I always compare it to how in America people are scared of poetry, and as a poet, you ... Richard Blanco The Mindful Reader: A beautiful, moving view from the lens of an inaugural poet |
Books of the year The Australian I WAS captivated by Steven Carroll's A World of Other People, a beautifully wrought love story that returns us to the drama of the London Blitz, the unworldly figure of poet TS Eliot (intriguingly, a firewatcher) and a tragic occurrence that may have ... |
Letters: Write, Write, Write New York Times It has nothing to do with pride (or, to acknowledge the famous and oft-repeated canard, “lack of love”). It does have to do, as Rivka Galchen's helpful remarks suggest, with thinking, with wanting to provide a usable historical and moral analysis of a ... |
When a Poem Comes Their Way: Celebrating the Humanities Huffington Post In the semester that just ended, I taught a course called "Lyrics of Mystical Love, East and West" at the University of Maryland, College Park. The class focused on the writings of medieval mystic poets, looked at the way these poems work, and asked ... |
Mevlevi Dervishes United With God Guardian Express Whirling dervishes from the mystic Muslim brotherhood gathered together to commemorate the death of a person who taught them to seek God through Love, Mevlana Jelaleddin Rumi, Islamic philosopher and a poet. The tradition, which started the year ... |
'Sweet Home Alabama' recap: Smooth flight, turbulent landing The Birmingham News - al.com "Falling in love is a lot like racing. It gets your heart pumping. It's complete excitement, it keeps you happy, there's nothing like it." – Duos, who would later follow up some credible dirt-track driving with poetry and roses. That's What He Said: "I ... |
NDTV | Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus Hillsboro Tribune Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives ... Editorial: Journalism from 1897 captures the wonder of a youngster EDITORIAL: Yes, readers, there is a Santa Claus Yes, Virginia, Santa comes in many shades |
Chicago Tribune (blog) | Authors reflect on the best books they've given or received Chicago Tribune (blog) This book was followed, in the years to come, by a steady stream of other such volumes — Dickens, Jack London — which I read and kept with me all through the long apprentice years, and still have — her neat, loving handwriting and those long-ago ... |
Courthouse custodian's poems a holiday tradition Lexington Herald Leader Love, time and patience and we all need to take time out to pray. Sometimes, he said, the little things that people do - such as sharing poetry - lights a spark that will help a person in the future. He said he is a big believer in "paying it forward ... |
Chicago Tribune (blog) | Poet JJ Tindall finds freedom in guiding boat tours Chicago Tribune (blog) ... ferries people by boat up and down the river and out into the lake. Poets having “real” jobs is not unusual — Eliot (Thomas Stearns) worked as a schoolteacher and banker, Carl Sandburg as a movie critic for the Chicago Daily News — because, as ... |
Craig Daily Press | Hometown Hero: Shirley Stehle shows love for Moffat County in published poem Craig Daily Press About a year ago, she moved into Sunset Meadows where she loves to write poetry and spend time with her friends. She also stays busy as a member of the Friendship Methodist Church, is a photographer and a card writer for the Last Frontier history group ... |
San Francisco Chronicle | A flood of memories of 'Stick in '62 San Francisco Chronicle My theme song in '62 could have been, "Why Must I Be a Teenager In Love ... With The Dodgers?" The Dodgers broke my heart that ... To a So-Cal kid, San Francisco was an incredibly cool place. I learned about beat poetry by reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti. |
Navigating 'Utopia'is worth the effort Houston Chronicle "We go from point to point discovering a new horizon, a shift of light or laughter, an exhilaration of newness that we had missed before. Even familiar, or perhaps especially familiar, poems bring the excitement of first nighters, first encounters ... |
Calgary Herald | Governor General's Literary Award winners and nominees offer their favourite ... Calgary Herald Katherena Vermette, winner in poetry for her book North End Love Songs (The Muses' Company) picked the book City Treaty (Turnstone Press) by Marvin Francis: City Treaty dances between quick twists of verse and shrewd satire. Francis pushes rhythms ... |
Eben Britton getting some playing time as hybrid tight end Chicago Sun-Times He writes poetry to relieve stress. Born in Brooklyn, his family members are writers and actors. His grandmother Estelle Parsons won the 1967 best supporting actress Oscar as Blanche Barrow in “Bonnie and Clyde.” She has starred in plays at Steppenwolf ... |
Popspoken | Art of poetry The Star Online Love And Misadventure, a book of poetry, is her first piece to be made available in mass print, and since it was released in mid-September, her publishers are on their third print run. “We just did another 50,000 last week,” Leav exclaims during our ... Lang Leav: Love and Minimalistic Verses |
Chicago Tribune (blog) | Five stories to make the season brighter Chicago Tribune (blog) Here are a few more to add to your list. Our first pick comes from Cambridge World Classics' “50 Best Loved Christmas Stories and Poems for All Ages,” an e-book begging to become a big, fat paper volume with lots of illustrations and a jolly red cover. |
The Hindu | Poetry in motion The Hindu Smita Sahay: The first time Smita Sahay remembers writing a poem was in Std I, recalling that she used to love poetry lessons in school. “It used to be about rabbit and fairies,” she laughs. “I usually write about people, places, emotions and I'm ... |
Houses Of Solitary Women Outlook Nighat, the daughter of an enlightened man who encourages his daughters to study abroad and shares poetry with them, suddenly finds herself imprisoned at home for wanting to marry a Hindu. From this first betrayal at the hands of a man she loved and ... |
Minneapolis Star Tribune | Joyce Sidman casts spells with poetry Minneapolis Star Tribune Sidman appreciates the plaudits, but truly enthuses about working with students during her weeklong poetry residencies in schools. “I love to see a child — especially one who has trouble learning traditionally, who stands out in the crowd, who never ... |
Gordon Getty at 80: A Poetic Justice San Francisco Classical Voice Between 1980 and 1986, Getty created a garland of songs from the poems of Emily Dickinson, and his opera Plump Jack, based around Shakespeare's Falstaff, was showcased by the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus in 1985 and 1987. But even though most of ... |
San Francisco Chronicle | 100 recommended books of 2013 San Francisco Chronicle FICTION/POETRY. All That Is, by James Salter (Knopf; 290 pages; $26.95). Salter's latest novel spans the second half of the 20th century and shows that few can match his depictions of life's physical pleasures, the sheer sensual delight of being in ... |
Sean Hallaren, Vancouver Man, Trades IKEA Rug For Haiku And It's The Best Huffington Post Canada In some cities, his fascination is with the public art that is visible within the subway system (whether it be the poets and buskers on the platforms of the Los Angeles Metro Rail or the palatial interior decor found in some of Moscow's subway stations ... |
Hampshire Chronicle | Former Poet Laureate to speak in Winchester about his love for countryside Hampshire Chronicle SIR Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate and president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England will visit Hampshire in February to speak about his love for the countryside and the importance of preserving rural landscapes. The talk, entitled ... |
Church briefs The Newark Advocate It tells the story of Christ's birth through special music, congregational singing, scripture reading and poetry written in the style of “'Twas the Night Before Christmas.” There will be a ... Chris Whitehead will use Matthew 1:18-25 as the text for ... |
National Post | Open Book: The Pigheaded Soul, by Jason Guriel National Post As traditional as his bent for formal metre and rhyme is his love of visual details, “where brilliant image follows brilliant image,” as he puts it, describing the verse of Canadian poet Eric Ormsby. In an essay on Seamus Heaney, Guriel writes, “Heaney ... |
Casper weekend to-do: Crafts, trains, dance Casper Star-Tribune Online A love offering will be taken to benefit the Chande Medical Project and warm beverages will be served during intermission. The Casper Planetarium, 904 N. Poplar, presents special holiday shows at 7 ... Held on the winter solstice, the longest night of ... |
Human Beings or Human Doings? Huffington Post Learn to recognize every bird song you possibly can. For those times not in nature, learn to meditate. Take a yoga class. Pay attention to your dreams. Keep a journal. Read poetry. Better yet, write poetry. Above all, learn to love the silence -- and ... |
The Hindu | Love under the scanner The Hindu Triage, her recently-published collection of poetry, spoken word, flash memoir with sketches interspersed, reveals all sides of romance as she peels off the captive layers to the heart of true love. At a session held at the Women's Christian College ... |
The Week in Pop: My pop-culture favorites USA TODAY If you already love the musician-designed T-shirts for charity site the Yellow Bird Project, you may also dig this book of poems by singer-songwriters like Joseph Arthur, Robyn Hitchcock and Elvis Perkins. 4. Jobriath A.D. The documentary about the ... |
You can do it, teen tells Maori, school New Zealand Herald ... dreams wants to shatter Northlanders' stereotypes of Maori, her school and her home town. A poem Shania Howard, 17, recited at Northland College's prizegiving this month has been taking social media by storm - even though she never planned to ... |
Bhittai preached love, peace, tolerance: Siraj Pakistan Observer Thursday, December 19, 2013 - Hyderabad—The message of great sufi saint and poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai gives us a lesson of love, peace and tolerance which is beneficial for our society. This was stated by Acting Governor of Sindh, Agha Siraj ... |
Morrissey paints his masterpiece Buffalo News Yet no politician receives that love that greets me in Oregon, no court judge could ever possibly know what it is like, and no gee-whiz journalist should dare to understand it. Nowhere are there more natural smiles than those of a welcoming audience ... |
All I want for Christmas is a bunch of points The Star Online In fact, the way the team played was like poetry in motion, but that was also down to having the players execute the game plan. Philippe Coutinho, while not ... And he will love Liverpool to secure six points in the two games after Christmas ... |
Telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Green living childhood dream reading classified football results Telegraph.co.uk And every week I love reading out Inverness Caledonian Thistle. It's got a certain romance to it. There's a rhythm in a name like that. It's broadcasting poetry.” Indeed, there are many of us who would pay good money to hear Green say Inverness ... |
Nancy Jo Eckerson: Wrap the world in love with acts of kindness Buffalo News I am blessed enough to be a romantic to the very core of me. Read the “Song of Solomon.” Every verse shows that romance is a gift from God. And this love can be shown by simple acts of thoughtfulness, not just by full-blown tomes of poetry and loving ... |
Homeless memorial remembers deceased who may have been forgotten The Mercury “Remember the names we read are people who shared life, who shared love, and who are remembered and missed,” Higgins told the crowd. “Our hearts go out to the loved ones and families of these people.” Also honored as part of the ceremony was Shirley ... |
Ottawa Citizen | A pilgrimage in Paris Ottawa Citizen It wasn't hard to fall in love with Paris again. The particulars of ... It was a revelation. Years later, I read poet Philip Larkin's remark that what he aimed for in his poetry was to recreate in the reader as best as words can the experience that ... |
The Atlantic | How Do You Score a Film With No Dialogue? The Atlantic That forever-lonely feeling, to me, is the premise of poetry and was what I wanted all of these pieces to elicit. The music just has to be good. ... This is a philosophical movie in some ways, and that's sort of what I love about it. That it is open ... |
KyForward.com | Students to Frank X: Where do poems come from? 'Do they just come out of your ... KyForward.com Walker cited three sources of inspiration: his gut (writing in reaction to his grandmother's death, for instance), his heart (writing about his love for his children) and his head (writing after historical research on jockey Isaac Murphy). “Nobody's ... |
Advent despair The Christian Century (blog) And about the human predilection to resist divine love. Three hundred seventy-one years later, Denise Levertov penned “Advent 1966,″ in which her vision of the “Burning Babe” is not Southwell's blessed Infant “scorched with excessive heat” (though her ... |
India Today | Prakriti Foundation hosts annual poetry fest from 10th to 20th December 2013 ... India Today Margaret Mascarenhas, an American citizen of Goan origin, will be reading and performing from her recently released book, Triage-casualties of love and sex, which is a collection of poetry, spoken word, flash fiction and sketches, published by Harper ... |
MUSEUM MATTERS: A movie museum preserves India's history in celluloid Odessa American From the gripping neo-realism of newly independent India in the late 1940s, cinema combined drama, music, artistry, poetry and imagery, offering people a narrative laced in novelty that was increasingly becoming addictive and engaging at the same time ... |
Movie Review: 'Saving Mr. Banks': A spoonful of sentiment DesMoinesRegister.com An exuberant child growing up in Australia, her imagination was sparked by a charismatic father (Colin Farrell) who loved poetry. While it glosses over facts and skips a few decades in Travers' life, the film explores how art can be influenced by ... |
Book Review: 'Amy Lowell Anew' by Carl Rollyson Wall Street Journal Lowell's powerful love lyrics are beginning to get the recognition they deserve—poems such as "Venus Transiens": "Tell me, / Was Venus more beautiful / Than you are, / When she stopped / The crinkled waves, / Drifting shoreward / On her plaited shell? |
Trap Door Theatre to Stage JUDITH, 1/23-3/1 Broadway World Woman's body as commodity; sacrifice as a path to ecstasy; death and love as the battleground of a general and a beautiful widow offering self-annihilation for the price of her country's sovereignty; seduction in the time of destruction--all of this ... |
The Age | Quest for the divine... The Age Plato tells us that beauty is the only spiritual thing that we love immediately just as part of our human nature, she wrote. He treated the beautiful as an excellent introduction to ''the good'', seeing art as not so ... Upcher never felt transcendence ... |
San Francisco Chronicle best-sellers, Dec. 22 San Francisco Chronicle AIMLESS LOVE: New and Selected Poems. Billy Collins (Random House; $26). 6. S. J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. (Mulholland; $35). 7. THE GODS OF GUILT (Lincoln Lawyer). Michael Connelly (Little, Brown; $28). 8. THE LUMINARIES. Eleanor Catton (Little ... |
Persian poet Rumi commemorated in Moscow Tehran Times Speaking at the ceremony, Iran's Cultural Attaché Hossein Tabatabaii said that the number of participants in the ceremony indicates the great love of Rumi amid the Russian literary and cultural figures. Russian poet and expert on Pushkin Mikhail ... |
Toronto Star | 'Santa Mort' Greenberg comes through again Toronto Star Every year he drops by the Star newsroom, not just with a big donation in hand but also some poetry and a Gilbert and Sullivan tune or two. Of course, just like ... Love of sports and sports writing plays a role with many donors, too. Dr. Bob Pick of ... |
Emmet Gowin Christian Science Monitor ... we come to know and appreciate the retired Princeton University professor's singular vision. What began as an intimate love story between two people broadens to embrace the natural world. Yet, the intimacy ... As Gowin turns his gaze to the ... BOOKS: Emmet Gowin |
John Green: The Fault In Our Stars (Penguin) Herald Scotland More than anything, Hazel wants to find out what happened to the characters after the end of the book, and she and her new love hatch a plan to travel to Amsterdam - Hazel trailing her ever-present oxygen tank - and ask the author personally. Green ... |
Best of 2013: Laura Bleiberg picks BodyTraffic, 'Rite of Spring' Los Angeles Times He'd applaud the romantic ache & love the danced reflection of his music. Alonzo King's ballets are hypnotic epic poems. In "Azimuth" he meshed his own regal Lines' dancers with @HubbardStreet's whip-fast troupe. David Roussève's sinuous solo brought ... |
Telegraph.co.uk | Who doesn't love competition in education? Telegraph.co.uk Public speaking, spelling, poetry, music and science competitions contributed too. There was an event in which everyone could excel, yet points were awarded for competence. In short, not everyone got a point, you had to earn it. It provoked healthy ... |
'Her': A Beautiful RAM Rom-Com Wall Street Journal What gives the film a significant upgrade is Mr. Jonze's gift for understated poetry, with intimations of philosophy. Lyrical flashbacks illuminate the love its hero once had, and lost. (Rooney Mara is his ex-girlfriend.) Samantha brings him out of ... |
SheWired | INTERVIEW: Welcome to the Age of Mary Lambert SheWired Sparkling in a red Christmas dress out performer Lambert takes the stage and deftly guides her audience through an emotional rollercoaster ride that will have many laughing through their tears while taking in her heart-rending love songs, visceral ... |
NPR | A Poet's Advice For Unlikely Partners: Just Dance NPR But exploring the world of Rumi is not merely a matter of what I would call literary diplomacy, people-to-people diplomacy through poetry. Rumi was one of the wisest men to have wandered the earth. Besides exulting in his quest for love and God and the ... |
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