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...taken my blues and gone," the poet Langston Hughes once lamented. Well, Langston, you wouldn't believe where rock performers are trying to take your precious blues in the '90s. British guitarist Eric Clapton's prim but praiseworthy blues album From the Cradle has sold 3 million copies so far, and he's starting the second leg of his successful concert tour in August. Dan Aykroyd, who donned dark glasses to become one of the Blues Brothers on TV show Saturday Night Live and in movies, now helps run the House of Blues, a Hard Rock Cafe-style restaurant chain...
...Wright, a poet from the bad neighborhoods of Compton, was a prophet. In 1989, the group N.W.A., which he co-founded, produced one of the most important songs of the past decade, "Fuck tha Police," Police officers around the country objected strongly to the song; an FBI official sent N.W.A. a threatening letter...
...this case present-day England and 1930 India. Also like its companion piece, the new play is framed as a quest by a careerist academic who is loaded with data but doesn't have a clue. Here it's an American scholar researching the life of consumptive English poet Flora Crewe-in particular, whether Flora posed nude for an artist named Nirad Das while traveling in India for her health some 60 years ago, and if so, whether the portrait was the token of a love affair...
William Kunstler is more than just a lefty defense attorney known for taking on unpopular clients like Colin Ferguson and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He's also a poet, having just published a collection of sonnets, Hints & Allegations, which features works such as "The Trial of Marion Barry" ("When our officialdom has stooped so low/ We all must utter a resounding 'No!'") and "William H. Rehnquist" ("The thought that such a man could lead the Court/ Might well have made the Framers self-abort"). In fact, a number of prominent attorneys display bardic talent-as we discovered by repunctuating some...
What about coming to hear the Black Pulitzer-Prize winning poet and author Gwendolyn Brooks? Friday night, after two hours of brilliant student poetry, dance, and drama at the Lowell Hall "Celebration," Professor Brooks read two tremendous poems. On Saturday during the day, she recited (if that word can describe her powerful reading) for over an hour in Radcliffe's Lyman Common Room. Each time she presented to a primarily student audience...