Dave Chapelle is going to be appearing on the premiere of Def Poetry Jam tomorrow night on HBO.
I’m not sure if I see Dave Chapelle as a poet, and in the past I’ve been known to complain about comedians muscling in on the spoken-word scene (mainly because poetry audiences … Read the rest
Over a million previously sealed documents in The National Archives will be made available to the public this Saturday. The National Personnel Records Center near St. Louis, Missouri will highlight the files of prominent people who served in the military — such as John F. Kennedy, Jackie Robinson and Jack … Read the rest
When you’re in grade school the “lost and found” is usually a well-worn cardboard box filled with mittens, lunchboxes and retainers carelessly left behind. But the literary lost and found is a never-ending bounty of wild discoveries. Let’s take a peek and see what’s in this week’s collection:
A set … Read the rest