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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
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.
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!!
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.
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...
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
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!
Authoring Software Resouces (Impact Report for the Electronic Literature Exhibit at the 2012 Modern Language Association Convention http://t.co/bpAay4gt...)...
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.
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
Missed Carnaval in Rio again this year? Visit ~ flâner ~ vicariously. Tourism, finance, culture, art, business, aviation and leisure, just to name a few.
Number 59. Hmph.(RT @LATimesbooks: America's most literate cities and more book news http://t.co/8sH8U47F...)...
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.
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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.
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.
The Cabool Enterprise Ferree's 'Cyborg Clayworks' exhibit begins January 16 at West Plains Civic Center The Cabool Enterprise Some of his pieces are currently on display at Good Girl Gallery in Springfield and Phoenix Fired Arts in Joplin.
watercolour on A3 paper: Check out slums reflection by ~Adjisketcherromance on @deviantART http://t.co/Dihfb6Sy)
The California Institute of Earth Architecture hopes their Superadobe construction technique may be applied to more traditional contemporary homes found throughout SoCal suburbs.
A Holistic Approach To Sustainable Management…and a lovely spot to sit and spend time. Take a book or sketch pad.
Via Noemi Szoychen
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.
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.
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)
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
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/
Space is never something that people simply use; we make meaning out of space through how we use it.
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