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...speech mixed inspiration and contempt, passion and outrage, autobiography and attack. It balanced language that both harkened back to the rich, poetic phrases of Martin Luther King (he cited King's reminder about "the fierce urgency of now") and the less subtle patois of contemporary politics - his boast that "when I'm your nominee, my opponent won't be able to say that I supported this war in Iraq; or that I gave George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran," was a deft jab to the very center of Hillary Clinton's weaknesses in the Democratic primary. Unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Rock the Nomination? | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...emotions, but manages to bring them safely into harbor. Despite the seemingly jumbled writing style and lack of a specific pattern to the book, Valentine creates a truly unique meditation on dark subject matter made bright. Valentine captivates the reader on a number of different levels, creating a poetic collage with a chaos of words and scattered syntax and punctuation. Although a bit difficult to follow at first, the inconsistent punctuation and spacing that characterizes Valentine’s writing ultimately proves to be one of the book’s prime pleasures. Many of the poems found within...

Author: By Erinn V. Westbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Little Boat’ Sails Smoothly Over Rough Waters | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

When I say that my family is freer than most, I mean that in a fairly literal sense. While most people use these 700 words to wax poetic about how they found themselves abroad or about how their weird family is actually normal, I cannot do the same, because I have yet to find myself, and my weird family is actually weird. While I could talk about the film canister filled with leafy greens I was given over Christmas break by an extended family member or the tears that spill out of my father’s eyes whenever...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Heritage Undressed | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...control.“I’ve found that the subject matter chooses us. Playwrights tend to have things that obsess them whether try acknowledge them to or not,” says Evans. “My plays all deal with the collision of the interior and poetic world with external world of politics. They mix a kind of poetic intensity with gritty real world situations.”For aspiring playwrights, Evans recommends theatrical participation, in any and all capacities.“The first thing to do is to get involved and to write...

Author: By Katherine L. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Playwright Spins Social Parable in Providence | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...Porter started to learn the names of 68 major muscles of the body, and when she put words together with phrases of motion, it was the seed of what was to become “Namely, Muscles.” “It seemed very poetic to me,” says Porter, who not only choreographed the pieces but also wrote all of the accompanying poetry. That may seem a bit outside the norm for professional dance, but it fell right in line with Porter’s sense of humor. Sally Sommer from The Village Voice once...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Muscular Poetry of Dance | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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