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- Poetry Inspires Prose in New Novel Goldengrove - Columbia Spectator
“It is the blight man was born for/ It is Margaret you mourn for.†So ends Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, a poem about a little girl crying over falling leaves and the loss of her innocence. And so begins former ...
- New Words for New Times - WebProNews
New Words for New TimesWebProNews, KY - 52 minutes agoPure poetry from an otherwise silly language. This Slate.com article says it owes its birth to Engrish, or poorly executed translations from Japanese as ...
- Susan Meiselas with Phong Bui - Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn RailSusan Meiselas with Phong BuiBrooklyn Rail, NY - 3 hours agoIt’s quite sad that he doesn’t seem to remember the whole so-called “Concerned Decade,†which arose out of the late 1960s. By that I mean, what can be more ...
- Museum’s Burying Grounds Committee seeks new members (Newton Tab)
The Burying Grounds Committee of the Newton History Museum is currently seeking new members. Participation is open to everyone who has an interest in historic preservation, the art and poetry of New England’s early burying grounds, Puritan and early American history, Newton’s green space, New England’s cultural heritage, and the restoration and maintenance of these cherished spaces.
- Dawn of a new star: Shawanda wins 5 Aboriginal Music Awards - CBC News
Country music sensation Crystal Shawanda led the field taking home five awards at Friday's 10th annual Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards in Toronto. The star-studded gala celebrating the best in aboriginal music featured performances by 7th Generation ...
- Poetry and Taxis - Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
"So much of a writer's life consists of assumed suffering, rhetorical suffering, that I felt something like relief, even elation, when the doctor told me that I had cancer of the prostate. Suddenly there was in the air a rich sense of crisis, real ...
- Charity begins at school - guardian.co.uk
Charity begins at schoolguardian.co.uk, UK - Oct 20, 2008Photograph: Martin Godwin "You can either be a Christian school or a school for Christians. You can't be both." It's the sort of simple paradox that the Rev ...
- Wordfest a readers’ feast - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Wordfest a readers’ feastTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 14 minutes agoShe achieves what any author hopes to with a reading: she has made us want to run and read her book. Patrick Lane, at 68, with more than 20 books of poetry, ...
- Dé Avery La Monte Priest Announces the Publication of His First Book - PRLog.Org (press release)
Dé Avery La Monte Priest Announces the Publication of His First BookPRLog.Org (press release), Romania - 57 minutes ago... poetry complete with seven original black and white photographs. The book’s first nineteen compositions explore Love, Death, Heartbreak, and the Divine. ...
- Loft's EQ series produces CD - Pioneer Press
Loft's EQ series produces CDPioneer Press, MN - 8 hours agoBy Trisha Collopy When Bao Phi launched the Loft's Equilibrium series in 2002, spoken word was still a noisy newcomer crashing the local poetry scene. ...
- Mirror’s Edge Gold - Xbox Circle
Mirror’s Edge GoldXbox Circle, NY - 6 hours agoMirror’s Edge has been praised by top industry media saying it is ‘the most exciting first-person adventure of the year’ (EGM) and ‘poetry in motion’ ...
- West Richland teen memorizes the Quran - Tri-City Herald
WEST RICHLAND -- It took Reshad Jalalyar three years to memorize the Quran. He started with a single page, reading the Arabic words over and over again. Then he moved on to the next page, then the next, until he knew all 30 sections and 77,701 words ...
- Christmas check a simple pleasure for fixed-income woman (San Jose Mercury News)
When a friend referred Loie Johnson to the Christmas Bureau of Palo Alto, a nonprofit that sends holiday checks to some of the city's poorest residents, she had some initial reservations. 'I felt like I didn't deserve it,' she said. 'I told him, 'I'm sure other people need it more. It was a gracious response from a single woman who has been living on less than $900 a month since chronic fatigue ...
- Regionalist painter documented rural, urban scenes from his life (The Columbus Dispatch)
Clyde Singer was a beloved artist, critic and administrator in northeastern Ohio. During a 50-year career at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, he held many titles -- including artist in residence and assistant director. He inspired fellow artists and guided students. His most impressive legacy, however, is his stunning volume of work: He produced more than 3,000 paintings, ...
- Spoken word event on Friday to honor Jeffers (The Monterey County Herald)
On Friday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., a group of five young professional spoken word artists from the "Youth Speaks Program" in San Francisco, plus local talent from hip hop influenced "Baktun 12"of East Alisal in Salinas, will mix it up at a poetry and spoken word event.
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