The Heartsick Poet

Poet Dean Young celebrates a new book and hopes for a new heart

"...Young, a poet who teaches at the University of Texas, is on..."

April 8, 2011 Books Feature by Amy Smith

A Portrait of the Artist as a Grad Student

Chronicle reviewer David Garza uses Tom Grimes' new history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop to question whether creative writing can be taught.

"...clumsy swings on the baseball diamond with her closest poet-friends, or if she really loved the grunt and sweat..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Books Feature by David Garza

News/Print

Book Fest shorts, upcoming readings, and more

"...• An Austin teen was just named a National Student Poet by the President's Committee on the Arts..."

Oct. 3, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

In Custody

"...of Urdu. Puri is Deven, a linguistics professor and student of Urdu who is asked by a magazine editor..."

July 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

They Hear America Singing!

Grammy-nominated Conspirare brings together 600 voices in search of our national sound

"...of just seven choruses in the country that the National Endowment for the Arts chose to host a choral..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

The Xicanindio Poet

"...for publishing the article by Phil West on Raúlrsalinas ["Poetry as Activism," Vol. 16, No. 29]. It's about time..."

April 11, 1997 Column

The First Time

Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on

"...a wider range that includes more subdued, classic, and poetic work, but I must say ... to this day,..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Adler's First "State of the City"

Mayor Steve Adler calls for "inclusion, innovation, improvisation"

"...for all of us." He was preceded by slam poet Christopher Michael, singer Max Frost, AISD Supt. Paul Cruz,..."

April 13, 2015 News Post by Michael King

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Truman Capote; Leitman no less poetically and eloquently mines the same territory. - Claiborne Smith..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...choreographers on the Eastside. Semiannual concerts feature work by students and guest choreographers local (Andrea Ariel, Sharon Marroquín, Ballet..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...place alongside the original. Between visits from the original student, Alan Lomax, Ishmael takes on a 12-year-old girl named..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...feature-length film submissions composed of 1,206 U.S. and 366 international feature-length films...."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Local Anthologies Take Root Growing Up

"...Although poetry is a highly individualized art form, it's one that..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature by Phil West

SWTSU's Top Twenty Triumph

Saving Literature... One Writer at a Time

"...Creative Writing students and faculty at SWTSU's annual M.F.A. Prom photograph by..."

May 22, 1998 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Women's Work Is Never Done

Started in 1978 as a grassroots feminist arts collaborative, Women & Their Work has evolved into an Austin institution, which has survived collapsing economies and shifts in location and mission to become one of the city's premier visual arts spaces.

"...women's arts around the city. "They were doing everything," poet Harryette Mullen remembers. "And they were doing it right."..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Telling War Stories

National Book Award winner and SWT professor Tim O'Brien is real. He's blunt. But he's also, according to Chronicle editor Sarah Hepola, responsible for her hangover.

"...golfer, Pulitzer Prize nominee, Washington Post reporter, recreational gambler, National Book Award winner, Harvard student -- but most people..."

April 28, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Poet Laureate Program Please: Local literary figure KB Brookins has..."

April 12, 2024 News Feature

Postscripts

Superslam

"...closing on April 10. Winners from the weekly Austin Poetry Slam series, which has been held each Tuesday at..."

April 2, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...According to activist, poet, and playwright Dennis Paddie, Austin's gay rights movement blossomed..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

aGLIFF 2019 Announces Full Lineup, Including Trixie Mattel Documentary

Gay Chorus Deep South to open jampacked fest schedule

"...champion Olympic swimmer, Matthias utters a homophobic slur on national television, he is forced to become the reluctant coach..."

July 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Come Together

Latino poets building a community at CantoMundo

"...When Deborah Paredez was a graduate student, she lived in Chicago's north side, directly across the..."

July 1, 2011 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

In an unusual union between an indie-rooted movie network and another cable network specializing in sensational courtroom dramas comes a sustained, multifaceted discussion on one of the most pressing issues of our time: free speech

"..."Poetic License" (D: Mario Van Peebles): In 2002, poet and..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...to make "adequate yearly progress," making their roughly 10,000 students eligible for transfer to schools with better test scores,..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Southern Destroyer

Barry Hannah at 60, in Oxford, and on why -- despite the energy drinks -- he's not feeling up to saving American fiction right this very minute

"...a half-century later in the fiction of a failed poet named William Faulkner. It's a flawless, solid, Greek Revivalist..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Further Reflections

"...relate his observations about the ground-zero cultural unities among international war machines. The weakness is minor, as the strengths..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Books of a Lifetime

Dawn Powell: A Biography

"...diaries be published. For 30 years, publishers, critics, and students had asked the estate for access to Powell's voluminous..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Books Feature

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...the face of new drama locally, bringing to town national artists such as Laurie Carlos, David Hancock, Erik Ehn,..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Off the Record

Griff Luneburg breaks his silence on the Cactus Cafe

"..."The mission has always been to educate students to music that they're not normally exposed to," he..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

In Person

Roger Gathman, Belinda Acosta, and Maria Hong recap three of the Texas Book Festival's finest panels.

"...newspaper columnists, activists, academics, and even a 12-year-old honor student. It is one in a four-volume series, the next..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

In Person

Roger Gathman, Belinda Acosta, and Maria Hong recap three of the Texas Book Festival's finest panels.

"...newspaper columnists, activists, academics, and even a 12-year-old honor student. It is one in a four-volume series, the next..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

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