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- Luncheon Supports Women's Cause (Garden City News)
A gala Book and Author Luncheon was held at the Swan Club on May 2nd by the Garden City branch of the American Association of University Women.
- Have a night on the town without leaving town, effort boasts - High Springs Heralds
Have a night on the town without leaving town, effort boastsHigh Springs Heralds, FL - 2 hours agoAbout 30 people gathered to watch fellow residents recite poetry, perform monologues and do stand-up comedy. Particularly entertaining was an old Abbot and ...
- Does music matter? Of course it does - Desert Dispatch
Does music matter? Of course it doesDesert Dispatch, CA - 29 minutes agoAs suggested above, for Plato “music†comprehended what was also called poetry in ancient times and has been known as literature in more modern times. ...
- UPDATE: Sneak a peek at "Into the Woods," one of the Great Lakes ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Katherine Jones/The Idaho Statesman All the fairy tale wishes come true and it looks as if the characters believe they might live happily ever after at the conclusion of Act 1 of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival/Great Lakes Theater Festival production ...
- Progressing from Bad to Verse - Article.nationalreview.com
O ne of the biggest raps against conservatives is that they’re a bunch of L7s inhabiting their own private Squaresville. This has never been true in any strict sense, but I’d be dishonest not to admit that there is a reason that people have the ...
- Remember when: On Memorial Day, remember men in trucks and children - Fort Pierce Tribune
It was the year about 1942. During the spring and summer months, we would hear the roar of the trucks going down Central Avenue, Seaside Park, N.J. We would stop our play and run to the corner to watch the miles upon miles of khaki transport trucks ...
- Our view: Busy City Council shouldn't have role in choosing laureate - Gloucester Daily Times
Our view: Busy City Council shouldn't have role in choosing laureateGloucester Daily Times, USA - 2 hours agoThat panel screened nine applicants and recommended Collinson, a Gloucester native who has written poetry most of her life and who works in book development ...
- A Voyage Long and Strange - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street JournalA Voyage Long and StrangeWall Street Journal - May 2, 2008The point is made by Peter Gomes, a Harvard chaplain of African-American and Portuguese lineage: "Myth is more important than history. ...
- A reading by Asoka Weerasinghe - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
Award-winning poet Asoka Weerasinghe will read from his 16th book of poetry, ‘The Land of Serendipity’ on Saturday, June 7 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Punchi Theatre, Borella. A geologist, paleontologist and museologist, Asoka attributes his interest ...
- Executive Director - Seattle Times
Executive DirectorSeattle Times, United States - 2 hours agoThe components: soccer, literacy (primarily through the use of poetry and creative writing), and community service, are bound together by the principles of ...
- Tao Te Ching Discussion Series - Cape Cod Today
Tao Te Ching: A six week discussion series led by Shoba Satya licensed acupuncturist and lover of sacred literature. Participants will read and discuss the 81 short poems of the Tao Te Ching that have enlightened people for thousands of years. Bring ...
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies (Miami Herald)
Michael Norton - who spent nearly two decades covering Haiti's coups, rebellions and disasters for The Associated Press - died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66.Norton chronicled the turmoil that followed former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier's ouster, spent almost a decade watching the rise and fall of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and wrote compelling accounts of ...
- King, Mitchell, Simon: A musical journey - International Herald Tribune
Sheila Weller, in her book "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation," which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: "It was the first line of the chorus ...
- An area of darkness and starvation - Newindpress on Sunday
An area of darkness and starvationNewindpress on Sunday, India - 49 minutes agoThe next literary stalwart to make tribal lore the subject of his literary creation is Sitakanta Mohapatra, whose seven collections of tribal poetry catch ...
- To Floyd Skloot, poetry emerges from emotional intensity and 'insistence' (The Oregonian)
L onger than he's lived in Oregon, longer than he's written essays, longer than he's penned novels, Floyd Skloot has been a poet.
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