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- Meditations on the spiritual life - Arlington Advocate
Meditations on the spiritual lifeArlington Advocate, MA - 13 minutes agoI started writing and preaching sermons during my junior year in college. I became serious about writing poetry after graduate school. ...
- Roger Rees on Shakespeare in one-man show - San Francisco Chronicle
Roger Rees on Shakespeare in one-man showSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 31 minutes agoIn the meantime, Rees is performing a bit of Lear, along with speeches from roles he's played - Hamlet, Berowne ("Love's Labour's Lost") - and some he ...
- Remember When: Sub skipper had no time for heroes at war's end (Vero Press Journal)
In July 1945, just weeks before the Japanese surrendered to end the war in the Pacific, my new submarine, USS Diablo, was in her last stages of training before starting her first war patrol. The realistic training mission, conducted on the surface, was to find and "rescue" two aviators in a rubber life raft on a windy, dark, moonless night, 30 miles south of Pearl Harbor in the Pacific. This ...
- The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust - Aversion
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy TardustAversion - 1 hour agoIt took Nine Inch Nail Trent Reznor merely an album to help Saul Williams achieve what several published volumes of poetry, a screenwriting credit, ...
- John F. Kennedy Library is slamming for teens - Listen & Be Heard
John F. Kennedy Library is slamming for teensListen & Be Heard, CA - 5 hours agoJFK teen librarian is hoping to start a tradition of poetry slamming for teens in Vallejo. In this spirit, we are welcoming prof poets ForWord, -GO, Aria, ...A Celebration of Local Authors Listen & Be Heardall 2 news articles
- Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen Bring "One Ounce of Truth" to Joe's Pub May 12 (Playbill)
Broadway singer-actress Capathia Jenkins and songwriter-performer Louis Rosen celebrate the release of their new CD, "One Ounce of Truth: The Nikki Giovanni Songs," with a Joe's Pub engagement starting May 12.
- 'Freedom Rings' at Diamond Park Thursday (The Meadville Tribune)
June 19, 1865: A Union general delivered news to Texas that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were to be freed — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Eman-cipation Proclamation.
- Popular Authors Sign On For National Book Festival - WJLA
Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among the 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival. The Library of Congress is organizing the festival on September 27th on the National Mall. The event was started by first lady Laura ...
- By SHIRLEY WEST (The Post-Journal)
RIPLEY — Ripley Central School sixth-graders wowed parents and faculty this past week with a presentation of original poems. "The students worked very hard on this," said Susan Hammond, secondary school principal. "It is all their own original work.
- Midwest City teen died saving friend's life - Tulsa World
Midwest City teen died saving friend's lifeTulsa World, OK - 18 minutes agoGerald Lee said his sister wrote poetry and music and was an aspiring rapper and radio broadcaster. Her stage name was Proverb, he said. ...
- Freshwater Festival returns to ACC this weekend - Journal Inquirer
ENFIELD — Just like April showers and May flowers; Valentine’s Day and chocolates; popcorn and movies; springtime and Asnuntuck Community College go hand in hand, to present the ninth annual Freshwater Poetry Festival Friday and Saturday, May 9 ...
- Hallelujah, it's Leonard! - Edmonton Journal
Edmonton JournalHallelujah, it's Leonard!Edmonton Journal, Canada - 1 hour agoTickets: Many events are free. Tickets for Saturday's gala concert at the Winspear are available at the Winspear Box Office 428-1414 EDMONTON - The man of ...
- Five questions for . . . Lloyd Robson - Metro
MetroFive questions for . . . Lloyd RobsonMetro, UK - 22 minutes ago... his latest book, poet and author Lloyd Robson visited America to find out more about actor Robert Mitchum's little-known penchant for writing poetry. ...
- HUMPHREY GAVE GREATEST CONVENTION SPEECH YOU'VE NEVER HEARD (David Shribman via Yahoo! News)
MINNEAPOLIS -- If you have an eye for these things, you might have noticed that Sen. Barack Obama is going to deliver his acceptance speech in a football stadium on Aug. 28. The last man to deliver an acceptance speech in a stadium was John F. Kennedy. The last important speech to be delivered on an Aug. 28 was given by the Rev. Martin Luther King 45 years ago.
- Gary Snyder Wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize - Earthtimes (press release)
Gary Snyder Wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry PrizeEarthtimes (press release), UK - 8 minutes agoChristian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chair of the selection committee, made the announcement today. The prize will be presented at an evening ...
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