'Push the boundaries': Literacy advocate Zell Miller III is Austin's first poet laureate
For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...
The Nation on MSN7h
The Concrete Poetics of Mary Ellen Solt
Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...
Australia’s ‘wild reciters’ sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today’s provocateurs?
In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...
S.F.’s Poet Laureate awarded $175,000 as part of prestigious literary prize
San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin has been awarded Yale University’s prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. The $175,000 literary award aims to provide writers the financial means to focus ...
Bayard Rustin: Still Speaking Truth to Power
A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...
Girls to the Front: Punk Pioneers Are Coming to Lincoln Center
American Songbook series honors “singer outsiders” including Fanny and Poly Styrene in events curated by Kathleen Hanna and ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel on MSN3d
Stephen Kessler | A poet born without a mother tongue
Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...
Kearney Hub4d
See what events are coming up in the Kearney area
Crepes and Cranes, an event that will feature a pancake feed, 8:30-10:30 a.m. April 5 at Funk School Community Center at 301 ...
David Lynch Was Transcendental Meditation’s Greatest Ambassador. What Happens to the Movement Now?
No one since the Beatles has done more to raise TM's pop-cultural profile than the director, who died in January and leaves ...
Has the policing of comedy in India gone too far?
Has the policing of comedy in India gone too far? - COMEDY IN INDIA UNDER ATTACK: Political party workers vandalising a ...
The Brooklyn Academy of Music Is Fighting to Regain Its Mojo
The performing arts venue does not draw the attention or audiences it once did. Now it has lost another leader as it works to ...
Opinion
LETTERS: Tax cuts hurt more Americans than they help, affecting Medicaid, Social Security
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