Juan Felipe Herrera Named U.S. Poet Laureate (University of California,...
(Source: University of California, Riverside) Juan Felipe Herrera Named U.S. Poet Laureate Former California Poet Laureate to embrace hope as a theme during his term RIVERSIDE, Calif. - University of...
View ArticleCelebrating the art that is life with Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera:...
So precisely why, you were wondering all week long, is it important news that Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed poet laureate of the United States? And, wait, along with that question lingering in your...
View ArticleConservatory Voice Instructor Teaches Western Classical Music (University of...
(Source: University of Missouri - Kansas City) Aidan Soder's performances display cross-cultural understanding "My dear girl, this is going to be life-changing." Not what most musicians are accustomed...
View ArticleUlysses and Us by Declan Kiberd
When Arthur Power visited James Joyce in Paris in 1922 the artist pointed out of the window of his apartment at the son of the concierge, who was playing on the steps. “One day,” he said, “that boy...
View ArticleSchools make moves to include women, minorities on required reading lists
When you think of the books that are read and taught in high schools across the country, what are the first titles that come to mind? “The Great Gatsby,” “Lord of the Flies,” “The Catcher in the Rye”...
View ArticleFashion books round-up: Glossy, vainglorious, light on words ... but no worse...
Fashion books, generally, are a paradox. While they multiply in both number and size, the information they impart decreases in inverse proportion. Glossier than the glossiest magazine – and often...
View ArticleTalking with Somers Point poet laureate Kathy Arleth
SOMERS POINT, N.J. - Poetry was apparently too controversial for Atlantic City this year, as a plan to pay poets to read their work at the city Farmers' Market was abandoned by the Casino Reinvestment...
View ArticleInterview with Veronica Lane Books owner and author Etan Boritzer
Small children are very curious about the world around them; they constantly ask “why?” and “how come?” and often leave adults searching for ways to explain difficult topics. Luckily, many complicated...
View ArticleWilliam Butler Yeats Taught Poets How to Serve
The great Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who would be 150 today, wrote poems that stick with you through life. He also set the standard for poetic public service. In Ireland, they put James Joyce’s...
View ArticleSteven Camden: my characters are full of bits I’ve stolen from real people
The YA author and spoken word poet speaks to site member some-infinities-katie about growing up longing for stories that felt real and why his new book, It’s About Love, celebrates the excitement of...
View ArticleOlympic athletes recommend 16 gold medal-worthy experiences for visitors to...
(Source: Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016) This Saturday 13 June, is the Brazilian Day of the Tourist. To mark the event, a selection of Olympic athletes joined forces...
View ArticleGreen Glowing Skull by Gavin Corbett – deeply strange, and strangely deep
Three ballad-singing Irish men in New York contend with goblins and sprites in a novel that will both puzzle and exhilarate the reader ...
View ArticleReading American cities: books about Honolulu
The most un-American of all American cities is bathed in literary culture. Anisse Gross investigates Hawaiian detective novels and alerts us to stories of Pearl Harbor, examines Hawaii’s oral tradition...
View ArticleFrom Ulysses S Grant to Barack Obama - US politicians can’t stop writing books
Political memoirs are still seen as essential credibility boosters for aspiring American presidential candidates, even if no one actually buys them ...
View ArticleStamp issue marks Yeats birth (An Post)
(Source: An Post) SLIGO, Friday June 12, 2015: William Butler (WB) Yeats is recognised as one of the greatest poets of the English language. Today (Friday) An Post issued a commemorative stamp...
View Article‘The Daemon Knows,’ by Harold Bloom
Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, Bloom, 84, returns once again to Crane: “Today I commence writing what will have to be farewell to my personal favorite among all poets, ancient and...
View ArticleBook Mark (Rutgers University)
(Source: Rutgers University) Rutgers University-Camden will celebrate three decades as the premiere literary hub in South Jersey when it presents the 30th Annual Rutgers University-Camden Summer...
View ArticleNew poet laureate basks in sudden fame
Somehow, between the constantly ringing phone and the TV news crews crowding into his home office and the Library of Congress pestering him to stick to his interview schedule, Juan Felipe Herrera on...
View ArticleOn Confessional Writing
A friend recently told me about a word game where you place the word "only" anywhere in the following sentence: "she told him that she loved him." She only told him that she loved him, she told him...
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