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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 ...
NH University Acquires Robert Frost's Letters to Pal
By not in system - AOL NewsCONCORD, N.H. -- Writing from England as World War I got under way, Robert Frost was more worried about his personal finances than the threat of war. Plymouth State University / AP This letter from the archives of Plymouth State University is one of several written by Robert Frost. The university, where he once taught, is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the poet's time on campus. "This row was exciting at first. But it has lost some of its interest for us," the poet wrote to his friend Ernest Silver in August 1914, just weeks after Great Britain declared war on Germany. "Not ...
Writers Air Poetic Laundry at Laundromat
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsAlone in the basement,/I take off my pajama bottoms/and slide warm denim/(CLINK CLINK CLINK)/from the dryer over my thighs. As poet January O'Neil reads, 50 listeners listen and one laundress launders. O'Neil muses on life at 42 while the woman standing behind her slides quarters into the coin slot of a big silver dryer. Clink. Clink. Clink. The deep thrum of giant machines spinning jeans and socks and T-shirts underlines the rest of O'Neil's poem, "Denim," and the pieces read by a rough dozen other poets. In lieu of a program, their names are affixed on pillowcases hanging on a clothesline ...
Old-School Text Messages Arrive @ the British Library
By Alex Eichler - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- Before there were text messages -- or rather, "b4 txts" (B.T.?) -- there was emblematic poetry. Fashionable during the Victorian era, emblematic verse played games with form and typography. A poem about flight and divinity, for example, might have its stanzas arranged in the shape of an angel's wings. And a pining ode to one's beloved might substitute letters, numbers and punctuation marks for actual words: "He says he loves U 2 X S, / U R virtuous and Y's." This kind of diction, of course, will probably be familiar to any modern-day reader who has ever used a cell phone or ...
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 ...
Mike Huckabee Pens Nancy Pelosi a Poem
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAh, Springtime! That magical time of year when a young politician's fancy turns to engaging his political opponents through the use of rhyming couplets. But, wait! What's this through yonder window? I believe that would be Nancy Pelosi completely ignoring Mike Huckabee. Like many a scorned gentleman before him, though, he has found an outlet for his feelings in the soothing medium of verse. ...
Join Brad Childress for an Evening of Poetry
By mjd - AOL NewsVikings head coach Brad Childress doesn't look like a guy who reads poetry for fun. He looks more like a guy who watches game film for fun, or blasts his face repeatedly into a concrete tackling dummy. But if you're looking for him at noon on Thursday, you can find him at the Minneapolis Central Library, reading Will Allen Dromgoole's The Bridge Builder. Childress is taking party in the Minneapolis Public Library's Favorite Poem Celebrity Reading Program, or as I call it, the MPLFPCRP (pronounced "mipplefupkirk"). Kudos to Bad Childress for embracing his inner poet. It can't help but have a ...
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