April's National Poetry Month -- Banning Pugilistic Prose, err, Verse? No. Nyet! Since the invasion of Iraq, a symphony of voices has reasserted the American
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collections of a magpie mind with eclectic interests, relentless curiosity and a taste for windmill tilting
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The National Book Critics Circle, founded at the Algonquin Round Table in 1974, honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature.
[2012, Criticism] Here’s a maddeningly looping tall tale about the enchantment of story telling that has cast a spell over readers and writers for centuries: A sultan, incensed to murderous rage by an act of cuckoldry, orders a new bride to be presented to him each night and summarily beheaded the following morning. The daughter of the vizier, knowing what awaits her should she fail, hatches a plan with her sister. She will accompany her into the sultan’s bedroom, and begin to tell him a tale. When the morning breaks, when “the time for speaking is over,” the sultan finds himself so charmed by the story she tells and so eager to hear how it turns out that the execution is stayed for one more evening, and one more, and one more. The storyteller, Scheherazade, wagers with her neck that literature can stave off death, and against the longest of odds, the marvelously recursive Alf Layla wa-Layla, or The Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, is both the proof and the payoff of her long-shot gamble.
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Telling stories, Shahrazad, Alf Leila wa-Layla, Borges, oral tradition, the palimpsest (and maze) of stories told/retold, and more...add this one to the reading list...
Citing Borges (as the author does) on The Arabian Nights: 'I think the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else." I'd add, be aware of and acknowledge the change: do not erase the originals or silence their tellers, rendering them invisible. Delete the scoop?
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From a poodle posing in a dazzling silk ballgown to a Husky modelling a smart gold-trimmed jacket, Couture Dogs of New York features some of Manhattan's best-dressed pooches. (Dogged!!
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Chinese artist Liu Bolin paints his entire body to exactly match the scenery behind him. He is camouflaged so well it is sometimes almost impossible to spot him. Delete the scoop?
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a few examples of remaining Russian architecture in Harbin - a bit goes every year sadly and the remainder ends up either painted odd bright colours or dwarfed by new ugly structures of the Chinese... Delete the scoop?
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RT @wwborders: New Issue: Writing from Haiti! Haitian writers explore the effects of the earthquake on Haiti's people and literature. http://t.co/xjX4XFbe Delete the scoop?
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The Architecture Alphabet designed by Stephen Wildish for 99% Invisible. Can you guess them all? Get your own copy of this poster when you donate to 99% Invisible! Delete the scoop?
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Authoring Software Resouces (Impact Report for the Electronic Literature Exhibit at the 2012 Modern Language Association Convention http://t.co/bpAay4gt...)... Delete the scoop?
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Despite its historical distinction as the world's first domed stadium, the Houston Astrodome (a.k.a. "The Eighth Wonder of the World") has languished unused since the late 2000s. Delete the scoop?
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Do one thing at a time (well!) or multi-task, that’s the question. Watch this interesting CNBC video clip in which Tony Swartz talks about how to get stuff done whilst balancing your energy ...
One thing at a time, eh? I'm not doing very well with that. It may even be contrary to the operating principles of flânerie, which toujours prefers the divertissements of the multicursal maze Delete the scoop?
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Missed Carnaval in Rio again this year? Visit ~ flâner ~ vicariously. Tourism, finance, culture, art, business, aviation and leisure, just to name a few. Delete the scoop?
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Number 59. Hmph.(RT @LATimesbooks: America's most literate cities and more book news http://t.co/8sH8U47F...)... Delete the scoop?
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Dans les années 1970, « le fond de l'air est rouge » et les révolutionnaires se battent les armes à la main, de l'Amérique latine à l'Asie. Delete the scoop?
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Artists, models, free spirits and nude enthusiasts converged in Dublin last week for the second Irish Bodypainting Competition. The themes for this year's challenge were "alien knowledge" for body painting and "music of the mind" for face painting. Delete the scoop?
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Spring 2013 Haute Couture fashion week just wrapped in Paris this afternoon—and, if you're in the market for a ballgown this season, you're in luck. Delete the scoop?
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watercolour on A3 paper: Check out slums reflection by ~Adjisketcherromance on @deviantART http://t.co/Dihfb6Sy) Delete the scoop?
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The California Institute of Earth Architecture hopes their Superadobe construction technique may be applied to more traditional contemporary homes found throughout SoCal suburbs. Delete the scoop?
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A Holistic Approach To Sustainable Management…and a lovely spot to sit and spend time. Take a book or sketch pad. Via Noemi Szoychen Delete the scoop?
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Get out your Ouija boards and crystal balls. That's what it might take to solve the double past lives of these unique homes. On the outside, they all have the appearance of single-family homes. Delete the scoop?
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Kathryn & Ross Petras On Assembling a 'Modern' Poetry Collection, mediabistro.com
By Maryann Yin on April 30, 2012 1:23 PM Happy National Poetry Month! All throughout April, we interviewed poets about working in the digital age. Delete the scoop?
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Learn the many ways to write poetry and create your own haiku, limerick, cinquain, or free verse poem with the Poetry Idea Engine.
Happy National Poetry Month, a reference / resource from | Writing with Writers at http://Scholastic.com (because we are never too old for either basics or amusing graphics) Delete the scoop?
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RT @HiddenValleyRV: RV Short Stops: Dreamy pastries, historic murals in old downtown New Braunfels, Texas http://t.co/HIeY4bRV via @addthis...
Normally New Braunfels is not the sort of venue frequented par ce qui flânent. La pluspart entre eux could not find it on a map. If they could, the next question might be the best bistro to morning for coffee and croissants. Cette flâneuese now be rolling on the floor in hysterical laughter. Mais nous aimons les murals toujours Delete the scoop?
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Facebook invitation to progressive artists, cultural workers and media practitioners: meet and share ideas, projects with other progressive artists and writers. The artist’s place is in the struggle and that without a “cultural revolution” in the field of ideology and ideas, there will be no truly successful social and political revolution.
Web site: http://peoplesart.info/ Delete the scoop?
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Space is never something that people simply use; we make meaning out of space through how we use it. Delete the scoop?
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