Poetry

Max Barry on mind-control, privacy and 'Lexicon'

2013-06-19 15:11:00

� Australian science fiction author Max Barry is creative and a little bit twisted. In his fifth novel, “Lexicon,” trained “poets” wield words to compromise and manipulate others. Like novelists, only more insidious. Barry...

Natasha Trethewey appointed to second term as U.S. poet laureate

2013-06-10 07:32:00

The Library of Congress announced Monday that the U.S. poet laureate, Natasha Trethewey, has been appointed to a second one-year term. Trethewey celebrated the end of her first term with a reading at the Library of Congress, which she compared to a...

'The Killing' recap: Linden gets her badge back to track a killer

2013-06-10 05:15:00

The number everyone is thinking of is 17. There are 17 confirmed, decomposed victims of an unidentified serial killer in a pond, and the recently dead Ashley Kwon seems to be No. 18. Kallie Leeds is missing, and no one wants to see the count rise to 19....

‘Eat It’ parody by ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic

2013-06-12 00:34:42

Poetry Foundation names Kenn Nesbitt its children's poet laureate

2013-06-13 09:02:00

The Poetry Foundation announced Tuesday that "Revenge of the Lunch Ladies" author Kenn Nesbitt will be its next children's poet laureate, a position the foundation created in 2006 to recognize that "children have a natural receptivity to poetry and are...

Creators wade into water imagery for Pacific Chorale's 'The Shore'

2013-05-29 07:00:00

When David St. John makes his annual pilgrimage to Moonstone Beach, he looks at the crashing tide and recalls his incarnations from years past. Sometimes, he envisions the child who splashed with wonder in the tide pools, or the teenager who piled in...

The artful meditation of Karen Green, David Foster Wallace's widow

2013-05-31 13:00:00

"Bough Down," the first book by artist Karen Green, arrives trailing a train of sorrow. Green was married to writer David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in September 2008. He was 46. Green has surfaced intermittently since then, giving few...

Poems, warmth bloom under the poet tree

2013-06-04 23:23:00

Ruth "Uncle Ruthie" Buell, who lives in L.A.'s Pico-Robertson neighborhood, had a thought one day. Actually, the thoughts are always bubbling over with her, but this one was particularly inspired. Why not replace the rotting tree stumps in her frontyard...

New journal 'Radio Silence' connects writing and rock 'n' roll

2013-05-28 12:22:00

In college, I once wrote a paper arguing that rock 'n' roll songs were poetry in sonic form. I was not, at the time, aware of Richard Goldstein’s 1972 anthology “The Poetry of Rock,” which made a similar case, gathering lyrics and...

'Epic': Animated film has slow start in box office abroad

2013-05-29 10:08:00

The international box office for "Epic" is anything but so far. The animated movie from 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Productions unit -- which focuses on a transformed teenager who befriends a group of misfits and fights rot-causing creatures -- has...

Secrets revealed in the death of Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton

2013-05-29 11:45:00

The death of Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton in 1975 is one of the great tragedies of Latin American literature and of the Latin American left. And it was a tragedy the left inflicted on itself. Dalton had joined one of the armed rebel groups fighting...

Taylor Mead dies at 88; underground film legend and bohemian artist

2013-05-11 12:51:00

Taylor Mead, an underground cinema legend whose comic charm and sense of the surreal inspired Andy Warhol and other seminal figures in the alternative film world, died Wednesday in Denver. He was 88. A fixture of bohemian New York who was also a poet...

The 2013 Daily Press Poetry Contest ran in conjunction with National Poetry Month.

2013-05-01 12:46:08

Ronald McCurdy, center, musical director of the Langston Hughes Project, plays trumpet during Wednesday night's performance of "Ask Your Mama, 12 Moods for Jazz" at Northern State University's Krikac Auditorium. The multimedia performance is a 12 part epic poem scored to a variety of music.

2013-04-10 21:47:00

Celebrate National Poetry Month at the Deerfield Library by getting an ode to you. Poets will create a personalized poem - on a typewriter! - based on the idea or inspiration you bring to them.

2013-04-03 15:07:00