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- The emperor's new peace plan - Salon
Ehud Olmert (left), George W. Bush and Mahmoud Abbas in front of a map of the Middle East. A Salon photo composite. Dec. 4, 2007 | I'd like to find reasons for optimism about the Annapolis peace conference. It feels mean-spirited and cynical to ...
- RIGHTS-ZAMBIA: Cyberspace Casts Light on the Lives of Death Row ... - Inter Press Service
LUSAKA, Jul 29 (IPS) - "Can governments solve urgent social or political problems by executing a few or even hundreds of their prisoners?" asks Benjamin Mawaya, sweltering on death row in Zambia’s Mukobeko high security prison in Kabwe, 150 ...
- Poetry students take flight in Houston (The Terrell Tribune)
Poetry Community Christian School fifth graders really took off this year when they placed first in the Southwest Airlines “Adopt-a-Pilot Career Takeoff†national contest.
- Sunday is libraries' new fun day (The San Francisco Examiner)
The prayers of San Francisco's library advocates have finally been answered.
- The eccentric genius of JMW Turner - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
The Star-Ledger - NJ.comThe eccentric genius of JMW TurnerThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 55 minutes agoTurner was indeed a Romantic painter, tied all his life to the Thames or the sea. He did his rocky Alpine crags, but it was water, light and fire he loved, ...
- Pupils shine in festival to celebrate their talents - Journal Live
Pupils shine in festival to celebrate their talentsJournal Live, UK - 3 hours agoThere has been poetry and music recitals, painting with the art department, photography and the history department has also made up a time capsule to show ...
- Adults, raise up students; don't let them down - Charlotte Observer
Adults, raise up students; don't let them downCharlotte Observer, NC - 9 minutes agoA'derrica Roseboro dropped by my public speaking class Friday a week ago to recite the poems she had prepared for the national Poetry Out Loud contest. ...
- NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith (Art Daily)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled†(Go-Go Dancing Platform), 1991. Wood, lightbulbs, acrylic paint, and Go-Go dancer in silver-lamé bathing suit, sneakers, and Walkman, Overall dimensions variable Platform: 21 ½ x 72 x 72 inches (54.6 x 182.9 x 182.9 cm) Installation view, “Lifestyle – From Subculture to High Fashion,†Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 2006. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, and ...
- Plotting a Crime - Wall Street Journal
For her new novel "My Sister, My Love," the acclaimed Joyce Carol Oates writes in the voice of 19-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family, a decade after the murder of Skyler's 6-year-old sister Bliss, an ice ...
- Austin Area Festivals: Music and More - American Chronicle
Austin Area Festivals: Music and MoreAmerican Chronicle, CA - 1 hour agoThe Luling Watermelon Thump in June garners national attention every year with its watermelon seed spitting contest. All these festivals reflect what the ...
- Messing about on the water - York Press
Messing about on the waterYork Press, UK - 1 hour agoThis is a celebration of the myriad insects that flutter along the banks of the Ouse and Foss, featuring performance poetry, projected images and music.
- The Renaissance Portrait Presented at The Museo Nacional Del Prado (Art Daily)
MADRID.- The broad time span covered by this exhibition (1400-1600) and its Europe-wide approach make it the first to provide an overview of Renaissance portraiture.
- On Stage: Cambria's Pewter Plough puts on 'The Belle of Amherst' (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
A virtuoso one-woman performance brings the talented, eccentric poet Emily Dickinson to new life in “The Belle of Amherst†at Cambria’s Pewter Plough Playhouse. Emma Duncan is a talented young actress who explores the poet’s history and psyche through a fine piece of writing by William Luce. Based on biographies and Dickinson’s many letters, the play weaves her enduring poetry into the ...
- East Visayas fellows garner awards in national writers workshop - Philippine Information Agency
East Visayas fellows garner awards in national writers workshopPhilippine Information Agency, Philippines - Jun 17, 2008Luciano L. Abia, also from Region 8, received an Honorable Mention for Individual Poem for his "Lagatob han Dughan hin Batan-on nga Mangirisda" while a ...
- About New York The Gift of Prose to Soothe the Traveler - New York Times Blogs
About New York The Gift of Prose to Soothe the TravelerNew York Times Blogs, NY - Jun 24, 2008“A couple of years ago, I visited my friend in New York,†Sabine Bartlet wrote last year to the Poetry Society of America, which helped the agency pick the ...
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