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Jazz Poetry for Hire on the Streets of New Orleans
By Dave Thier - AOL NewsA couple of nights every week, Eric Carter sits at the top of New Orleans' Frenchman Street with a typewriter. The legendary music street is famous for jazz, but he's practicing another kind of improvisational expression. "Poetry," his sign reads. "Your topic, your price." Give Carter a word, and he'll tap out a poem for you on a piece of receipt paper for a donation. "I can celebrate an anniversary, or the river, or a birthday -- people ask me to write about food, or the saints or all that, so that's what I do," he told AOL News. "It's got me out of several writing blocks, and it's just ...
Mexican Activist Susana Chavez Killed, Mutilated
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsMexican poet and activist Susana Chavez has been found dead in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, her body mutilated in a seemingly bizarre killing. Chavez, who campaigned against the killings of women in the violence-plagued city, was found with a bag over her head and had been strangled, The Associated Press reported. Her left hand had been severed. Authorities say Chavez, 36, was partying with three 17-year-olds she had just met when events took a violent turn. EPA / Landov Poet and women's rights activist Susana Chavez was found dead last week. "Unfortunately, these people ...
Choosing Children: A Huge Investment in a Perilous World
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyKids. Are they bundles of joy? Or crippling burdens? A trip to the mall will remind anyone that it depends on the parent and depends on the kid. However, a headline like that is not going sell papers. Despite the title of New York Magazine cover story "I Love My Children. I Hate My Life," readers learn on page six of the six-page article that research reveals in the long run parents do not regret having kids. It's the childless who have regrets. Sure, kids will ruin your life. But so does everything, if you live long enough. My colleague Sarah Wildman acknowledges the frustrations of ...
Tattooed, Pain-Proof Man Looks to Publish Poems, Journals
By Marc Hartzman - AOL News(June 24) -- The tattoos decorating his face and his fondness for a bed of nails might lead you to certain opinions about Eduardo Arrocha. "Prolific poet" is probably not one of them. Yet, in between 15 years worth of performances and odd jobs at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore, Arrocha, known as Eak the Geek, was busy writing morning, noon and night. His efforts have produced more than 3,000 pages of handwritten journals and poems about his experiences from 1992 to 2006. Since leaving Coney Island and after spending a year at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich. (yes, Eak ...
Ripping Off Writers Since 1852: The Literary Industrial Complex
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailySpeaking of cons...Having just taken on the happiness industry, I thought I would follow up by taking on the writing industry. Or, more precisely, the writer factory.Even graduates of bartending schools have some sort of employment on the horizon. But that just goes to show you the sheer genius of the literary-industrial complex. The available jobs after graduation are nothing more than a mirage, and even though everyone knows it, people still fork over millions of dollars.I should point out that there are at least two kinds of writer cons. First, there's the writing equivalent to the ads we ...
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