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Red and BlackFlicker turns down the amps; poetry, short stories featuredRed and Black“I definitely think the music scene here adds to the poetry scene, because when a town like Athens can champion an art form like music, other art forms fall ...
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Boise State's Ahsahta Press Ushers in 2011 with Two New Publications of ...Media Newswire (press release)Ahsahta Press, a not-for-profit literary publisher at Boise State University, recently released two new poetry books that demonstrate its reputation for ...and more »
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Rant and pantThe AustralianHaving read most poetry books published in Australia over the past decade, I'm well aware that putting a poem into print does not guarantee its quality. ...
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50 great moments in jazz: Carla Bley's Escalator Over the HillThe Guardian (blog)In the eclectic 21st century, the idea of an opera drawing on sources as diverse as jazz, rock and country music, Indian classical forms, hipster poetry and ...
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Celebrating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Statesman Journal... Space will be created through stories, music, poetry and other forms of expression, plus reflection on experiences working against societal inequities. ...and more »
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Student contests spice Red Cross programNew Philadelphia Times ReporterGrades kindergarten through two will submit a coloring sheet and grades three to 12 will submit an original essay, short story or poetry. Contest forms and ...
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TribLocalLibrary announces One Book, One Batavia 2011 selectionTribLocal... where he will proclaim that poetry is alive, well, and up and about on the streets, in schools and universities, and online in new digital forms. ...
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Middle East OnlineNew lights on Oman's folk poetryMiddle East OnlineThe metered lines have evolved into poetry of various forms and now we have many types of poetry from classic to modern. But, in any language, ...
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San Francisco Bay View'Poems About This Roller-Coaster Ride Called Life': an interview with poet ...San Francisco Bay View... inspired me to be creative and just flow with free verse, not having to be tied down by any specific structure like more traditional forms of poetry. ...and more »
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Souhegan students to vie in Poetry Out Loud contestTelegraph NeighborsThough these urban forms have been on the outskirts of poetry recognized as such by the academy, the inception of this event, now four years in the making, ...and more »
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"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." "What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life." "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes." "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill'd with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew'd; Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me; Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined; The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse." — Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass) There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the ...
The author is a graduate from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (LMU), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Santa Monica College (SMC), Santa Monica High School (SAMOHI), and John Muir Elementary School in Santa Monica, California. The author has plans to return to school to earn a Ph.D. in an undisclosed field of interest. However, prior to returning to school, the author is finishing up several literary projects pending future publication release. Although the author admires great American poets past and present, the author has been writing poetry (and prose and short stories) since a pre-teen before he knew that any of these other poets existed. In a pre-teen bout of insecurity and lack of moral support for his literary expression, the author burned hundreds of his poems which he later regrets because such words can never again be replicated. Notwithstanding, as the author discovered that other people also expressed themselves in literary writings, the author has gained the security needed to move forward with his literary contributions...knowing that there is somewhere there, in the world, that can make use of what he writes. As to poetry and lyric, the author has gone to appreciate works from Jim Morrison, Bono (Paul David Hewson), Scott Stapp, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Sidney Lanier, Emily ...
The author is a graduate from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (LMU), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Santa Monica College (SMC), Santa Monica High School (SAMOHI), and John Muir Elementary School in Santa Monica, California. The author has plans to return to school to earn a Ph.D. in an undisclosed field of interest. However, prior to returning to school, the author is finishing up several literary projects pending future publication release. Although the author admires great American poets past and present, the author has been writing poetry (and prose and short stories) since a pre-teen before he knew that any of these other poets existed. In a pre-teen bout of insecurity and lack of moral support for his literary expression, the author burned hundreds of his poems which he later regrets because such words can never again be replicated. Notwithstanding, as the author discovered that other people also expressed themselves in literary writings, the author has gained the security needed to move forward with his literary contributions...knowing that there is somewhere there, in the world, that can make use of what he writes. As to poetry and lyric, the author has gone to appreciate works from Jim Morrison, Bono (Paul David Hewson), Scott Stapp, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Sidney Lanier, Emily ...
The following quote sums up this music better than I ever could: "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds ..." ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Enjoy the embrace of the dark night........
Struggling white rapper. GET THIS SONG ON ITUNES! itunes.apple.com MORE VIDEOS www.youtube.com TWITTER www.twitter.com FACEBOOK www.facebook.com This video was originally part of the 4th episode of MIND TURDS, my sketch comedy web series. Check it out! www.youtube.com Rapping (also known as emceeing, MCing, spitting (bars), or just rhyming), refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into "content", "flow" (rhythm and rhyme), and "delivery". Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that is it performed in time to a beat. Rapping is a primary ingredient in hip hop music, but the phenomenon predates hip hop culture by centuries. Rapping can be delivered over a beat or without accompaniment. Stylistically, rap occupies a gray area among speech, prose, poetry, and song. The use of the word to describe quick speech or repartee long predates the musical form, meaning originally "to hit". The word had been used in British English since the 16th century, and specifically meaning "to say" since the 18th. It was part of the African American dialect of English in the 1960s meaning "to converse", and very soon after that in its present usage as a term denoting the musical style. Today, the terms "rap" and "rapping" are so closely associated with hip hop music that many use the terms interchangeably. MCs use many different rhyming techniques, including complex rhyme ...
Yeats was particular about how his poetry should be read: I'm trying to sound like him. Here's him saying so himself: www.youtube.com This was from Last Poems and Two Plays, 1939 published in the year of his death. "Globe-trotting Madam" is I suppose a sideswipe at Maud Gonne: he hardly wrote a poem with fetching her a clip around the ear. Still, as stalkers go, he was relatively harmless, unless she minded being immortalised as a callous, randy, silly bitch. The rest is the usual pot-pourri of Irish Troubles, fourteenth century art (quattrocento), Rosicrucianism, reincarnation or persistence of the soul, what's wrong with the world and an exhortation to the younger generation of poets to carry on making the same mistakes that he did. All right now, it's great poem. Will ye be after putting that shillelagh down, Paddy? A couple of years before Yeats had the Steinach Operation, now called a vasectomy, supposed then to produce physical and mental rejuvenation. "It revived my creative powers" he said. That was more the power of placebo talking, just wishful thinking on his part, unless anybody can show me evidence to the contrary in which case I'll book meself in for the snip next week. Together with grafting of "monkey glands", total removal of the large bowel (which caused the hapless victim to defecate every few minutes, like a canary) and other strange operations, it was all the rage in the thirties. Freud was "Steinached." If you want to learn more read this article ...
Fine Animals - www.BAZHE.com Antiquarian & Collectible Pictures of Fabergé from a private collection. Faberge's animal subjects are actual portraits of pets which belonged to the Imperial family, and others are of wild animals and birds executed in colorful precious stones with a fine feeling for the different forms. BKBAZHE is a writer, poet, and artist. He is the author of DAMAGES (creative nonfiction) —Winner in the Writers Digest Awards and IDENTITIES (poetry). He is published and exhibited in Europe and America. More info at BK Bazhe Website: www.bazhe.com Amazon Books & Art by BK Bazhe astore.amazon.com YouTube Videos by BK Bazhe: www.youtube.com Google Blog by BK Bazhe: bazhe.blogspot.com
Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds... - Algernon Blackwood The "Cthulhu Mythos", a story-cycle developed by Lovecraft, takes its name from the titular creature of the story. Other authors, many of whom were early friends or acquaintances of Lovecraft, have penned their own stories in this milieu. Song by: The Mountain Goats it's gonna be too hot to breath today but everybody is out here on the streets somebody's opened up the fire hydrant cold water rushing out in sheets some kid in a marcus allen jersey asks me for a cigarette companionship is where you find it so I take what I can get hubcaps on the car like fun house mirrors stick to the shadows that I can lovecraft in brooklyn well the sun goes down on the armies of the voiceless several hundred-thousand strong come without their bandages their voices raised in song when the street lights sputter out they make this awful sizzling sound I cast my gaze towards the pavement too many blood stains on the ground rhode island drops into the ocean no place to call home anymore lovecraft in brooklyn head outside most everyday to try to keep the wolves away imagine nice things I might say if ...
The GuardianWhen John Ruskin and John Everett Millais took the high roadThe Guardian"To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one," said Ruskin, who considered landscape painting "the chief artistic creation of the 19th ...
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Deccan ChronicleTamil, from classical to contemporary ageDeccan Chronicle... the public will get an opportunity to listen presentations on classical Tamil in the form of various programmes like literary speeches, poetry sessions ...and more »
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De Villepin Forms Political PartyWall Street JournalHe sometimes gives poetry readings. He has never been elected to office, instead being directly appointed to cabinet positions. He is known for a speech to ...and more »
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Tribune ReviewTV, comics top list of decade's breakthrough art formsTribune ReviewWill some kind of high-tech future-art burst into the public consciousness, or some ancient tech-proof art, like poetry, see a revival? ...and more »
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A legacy of words: Father and daughter collaborate on projectsAlton TelegraphMany of these poems can be found in the Union Electric section of his anthology, “Worth Remembering: The Poetry of Our Heritage.” Thompson received a Gold ...
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Daily MailPoetry in commotion! Roger Lewis's campaign to become Oxford's Professor of ...Daily MailThe forms were duly filled in, countersigned by people such as Lynn Barber, Byron Rogers, the many bluestockings at Short Books (my own publishers) and ...and more »
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China now pressuring Tibetans outside politicsThe Associated PressNow, activist groups say a growing number of Tibetan intellectuals are coming under pressure from authorities determined to squelch all forms of dissent. ...and more »
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Up close and personalBaltimore SunFor example, Redford brought a slam poetry group called Youth Speaks into a global-warming conference. "This 17-year -old kid comes to speak to these ...and more »
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FilipinoPoems.org Brings the Best of Philippine Poetry Closer to StudentsBigNews.biz (press release)While shorts stories and novels are the most common and mos proliferated forms of literature today, Filipino poems are as much as, if not more interesting ...and more »
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Washington PostJohn Wooden: How Poetry Shaped My CareerHuffington Post (blog)Poetry, in all its forms, was an efficient tool for this. While I never stood on a bench and recited Grantland Rice, I did constantly inject ideas during ...Celebrating the Literary Legacy of Coach John Woodenmediabistro.com (blog)all 691 news articles »
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A&E Notebook: WWII vets, 'Cinco de Mayo,' poetry slamThe State Journal-RegisterFor registration information and entry forms, contact Kris Salter at 566-2300 or ksalter@casscomm.com, or Alison Storm at 544-9470 or storm@wishes.org. ...
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Vanity FairMartin, Maggie, and MeVanity FairI would love to be able to give the impression that it was a relationship between equals but, if represented in cartoon form, the true picture would be ...
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The Andreadis Unibrow Theory of ArtHuffington Post (blog)Too, a lot of poetry, including that of Nobel-prize winners, has been set to compulsively singable music by Hellene popular composers - and the songs are ...
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Short Story Month Q&A: Jonathan PapernickNational Post (blog)Q: William Faulker prioritized writing forms thusly: "Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which ...
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Pakistan's militant leader reported dead earlier is 'still alive'Link TVHe composed poems about women, about the country, about nature in its various forms, and in a new language: a language close to life, and close to people. ...and more »
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Tools of the tradeThe AustralianShapcott has been a substantial figure on the Australian poetry scene for 50 years and much that can be said about his work has already been said. ...
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Why Aren't Poets More Politically Active?Huffington Post (blog)Whether it's in poetry or politics, self-exclusion catalyzes isolation and diminishes shared connections. In its more partisan forms, it impedes cooperation ...and more »
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A Golden Age of American Poetry?First Things (blog)But certainly as good as other literary forms—essays, novels—being produced today. I'm too woefully under-informed to say whether Simic is right. ...and more »
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Washington PostPoetry book review: Michael Dirda reviews 'Nox,' by Anne CarsonWashington PostIt forms a lock against oblivion. Does it?" "Nox" opens by reproducing the Roman poet Catullus's elegy for his brother, the one that ends "frater, ...
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Singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant sets poetry to music in her newest studio album, looking at childhood through the works of poets such as EE Cummings, Robert Graves and even Mother Goose. Jeffrey Brown reports on the unusual melding of art forms on her new album, "Leave Your Sleep."
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EU president Herman Van Rompuy on Thursday presented his first book of haikus, mini-poems in the Japanese style, promising to keep writing them despite his political commitments. "The conciseness of haiku offers me the opportunity to penetrate the essence of words by expressing so much in so little space in an unaffected language," the former Belgian prime minister explained, using many more words than one of his 17-syllable poetic creations. At a press event at the Belgian parliament, with Japanese ambassador Nobutake Odano looking on, the European Council president explained that he caught the haiku bug in 2004 and "I have not stopped since then," the AFP news agency reported. Insisting that the "light verse form" avoids "the pain and inner conflict" of longer forms of poetry, Van Rompuy said his works were "never obsessed or driven by passion, but rather with enthusiasm." The scholarly Van Rompuy, known as a quiet but effective diplomat rather than a table-thumper, assumed his new role last December. On that occasion he regaled journalists with a haiku based on the three successive holders of the EU's rotating presidency, Spain, Belgium and Hungary. "Three waves rolling, together into the harbour. The trio is home." In the 124-page book the haikus, written in his native Dutch language, are each translated into four languages, including Latin, while retaining the haiku form. Recently Van Rompuy, who does most of his political work behind the scenes, saw himself dragged ...
AFPEU president Van Rompuy presents book of haiku poemsAFPInsisting that the "light verse form" avoids "the pain and inner conflict" of longer forms of poetry, Van Rompuy said his works were "never obsessed or ...and more »
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Music Fariborz Lachini at www.lachini.com Sohrab Sepehri (Persian: سهراب سپهری ) (October 7, 1928 - April 21 , 1980) was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter. see also payvand.com He was born in Kashan in Isfahan province. He is considered one of the five most famous modern Persian (Iranian) poets who have practiced "New Poetry" (a kind of poetry that often has neither meter nor rhyme). Other practitioners of this form were Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad, all of whom are now dead. Sohrab Sepehri was also one of Iran's foremost modernist painters. Sepehri died in Pars hospital in Tehran of leukemia. His poetry is full of humanity and concern for human values. He loved nature and refers to it frequently. The poetry of Sohrab Sepehri bears great semblance to that of EE Cummings. Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism and western traditions, he mingled the western concepts with eastern ones, thereby creating a kind of poetry unsurpassed in the history of Persian literature. To him, new forms are new means to express his thoughts and feelings. His poetry has been translated into many languages including French, English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Russian.
Music Fariborz Lachini at www.lachini.com Sohrab Sepehri (Persian: سهراب سپهری ) (October 7, 1928 - April 21 , 1980) was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter. He was born in Kashan in Isfahan province. He is considered one of the five most famous modern Persian (Iranian) poets who have practiced "New Poetry" (a kind of poetry that often has neither meter nor rhyme). Other practitioners of this form were Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad, all of whom are now dead. Sohrab Sepehri was also one of Iran's foremost modernist painters. Sepehri died in Pars hospital in Tehran of leukemia. His poetry is full of humanity and concern for human values. He loved nature and refers to it frequently. The poetry of Sohrab Sepehri bears great semblance to that of EE Cummings. Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism and western traditions, he mingled the western concepts with eastern ones, thereby creating a kind of poetry unsurpassed in the history of Persian literature. To him, new forms are new means to express his thoughts and feelings. His poetry has been translated into many languages including French, English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Russian.
Comedy based on "the enjoyment of ill health" is traditional in Yorkshire, going back through a succession of comedians to George Formby, snr: who would say on stage, "Coughin' better toneet" when he was dying of consumption. Yorkshire wit is dry as dust. Reg Dixon used as his catch-phrase on the Music Halls, "I've not been well. I've been poorly - proper poorly." Poorly just means generally unwell. It can also be used as a noun to mean a sore or injury, usually by children, as in, "I've got a poorly on my knee." When Yorkshire dialect is written, the definite article "the" is contacted to "t'", as in "Wilt tha come ter t'pictures?" which means "Will you come to the cinema?" This contraction is misleading - the "t'" doesn't sound like a letter T or like anything at all - it's a glottal stop, an brief absence of sound, a hiatus. In Yorkshire "thee and thou", the singular forms of you, are still used like the French "tu". The archetypal working man in Yorkshire is taciturn and succinct, he keeps pigeons or ferrets or whippets, he rides a bike and he attempts to grow more enormous leeks than his neighbours. "Up a ladder wi' a pigeon and a brokken neck". They are carrier pigeons and they are flown competitively. Sometimes kindly folk would find exhausted pigeons wandering about and return them to the owner whose the name was tied to their leg. They didn't realise that the owner would thank them kindly, then wring the pigeon's neck as soon as their back was turned. What use is ...
160 is a new form of poetry based on SMS messaging (texting). Every poem consists of exactly 160 characters, including spaces: the maximum length of one SMS message (at least in western languages). 160 was developed in the Netherlands by Sofie Cerutti, a poet and historian living in Amsterdam. Although many forms of sms-poetry are to be found in the world, usually defined as short poems or poems in sms language, this specific form 'exactly 160' has never been used so far. In the Netherlands the 160 is now being explored by poets and becoming increasingly popular among amateurs as well. Since November 2006 a 160 is published daily in the Dutch newspaper nrc.next and on the website www.precies160.nl. In fall 2007 a series of 160 poetry collections will be started by Meulenhoff publishers. Furthermore, 160 contests were and will be organized, 160 poetry-education is being set up for high school pupils and the 160 will be present at many (poetry and other) festivals. One-minute movies are now being made showing the poems and the concept of the genre a preliminary version of these is shown at the upcoming festival.
Pittsburgh Post GazetteThe Next Page / The Last Brick in Place: Epitaph to a DecadePittsburgh Post Gazette... drama, literature, dance, music and poetry? These are the forms of expression that should first and foremost become us as a country and of which they ...
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Dallas Morning NewsNasher Sculpture Center exhibit represents several firstsDallas Morning NewsTo enter any of the galleries, the visitor has to part the curtain of poetry, and in the process the letters chime a new arrival. ...and more »
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The sit-ins that changed AmericaLos Angeles TimesKing may have stirred the nation's soul with the movement's poetry, but SNCC moved it to action with the prose of its grass-roots organizing. ...and more »
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