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...resolution comes in the wake of last week's executions of political activists in Nigeria. The military regime in Nigeria, which seized power in 1993, hanged 11 activists, including environmentalist, poet and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa. The executions have received worldwide condemnation...
...five of these Gen-Xers work at Bowl and Brass, a cheesy Crate & Barrell/Pier One hybrid. Using flashblacks and present-day scenes, Matteau tells a series of interlinking stories about the protagonist Jen, her slacker-poet boyfriend Joe, Joe's exgirlfriend (and Jen's ex-best friend) Joan, Jen's boss Jack, who nurses crushes on both her and Joan, and June, the dippy new shift supervisor...
Mike Seid's Joe is the classic stereotypical poet: sloppy, wavering, unable to keep a job and inexplicably attractive to women. "On the edges of the world," he proclaims to a love-struck Joan, "the poet stands sentinel." Only his trust fund keeps him afloat as he drifts from job to job and woman to woman...
...have to overcome tremendous obstacles. My favorite interviews are not with heads of state or celebrities, but with people like [paralyzed policeman] Steven McDonald or the pitcher [and cancer victim] Dave Dravecky. In fact, one of my first interviews for the Today show was with a blind and deaf poet in Brooklyn...
Heaney, whose selections included "Stiff Tree" and "An Artist," ended his reading with "Poet's Chair," a meditation on a sculpture in Dublin by that title...