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- Volunteer says taking first step is the hardest (The Doings Hinsdale)
One friend asking her to be involved kick-started a 20-plus year volunteer career for Hinsdale's Lisa Wilhelm Haag. "Start where you can to help a cause and say, 'What else can I do,' " she said. "Someone is going to call you about a volunteer opportunity." Since the 1980s, she has been involved with the YWCA of Metro Chicago, where she is the treasurer of the board and chairman of the finance ...
- Janus salutes Brecht as entertainer, reformer - The Courier News
Janus salutes Brecht as entertainer, reformerThe Courier News, IL - 4 hours agoVecchio performed with Tony n' Tina's Wedding touring company for seven years and has appeared in numerous independent films and Chicago theater productions ...
- Full fathom five - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukFull fathom fiveguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoJorie Graham's poetry is all about the vertiginous (and sometimes heady) experience of falling through the cracks - in reason, in consciousness, in time. ...
- • Thomas Disch; Sci-Fi Writer Was Part of 'New Wave' - Washington Post
Washington Post• Thomas Disch; Sci-Fi Writer Was Part of 'New Wave'Washington Post, United States - 41 minutes agoLast year, he published a book of poetry, "About the Size of It," which included many poems about being overweight. "He was writing for the first time in ...Thomas M Disch Telegraph.co.ukThomas M. Disch, 68; prolific science-fiction author Los Angeles TimesThomas M. Disch | 1940-2008 Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide Columbus DispatchEntertainment Weekly - San Francisco Chronicleall 438 news articles
- Books of life - Guardian Unlimited
Books of lifeGuardian Unlimited, UK - 39 minutes agoDoes this, as in the case of the racist, sexist Philip Larkin revealed by Andrew Motion affect the way we read their novels or poetry? Of course it does, ...
- Poetry tribute launch night - Lancashire Telegraph
Poetry tribute launch nightLancashire Telegraph, UK - 6 hours agoBy Telegraph newsdesk THE LAUNCH of an anthology in memory of an East Lancashire newspaper editor who died of motor neurone disease in 2005 is taking place ...
- Mental-health conselor named to Florida Bar's Citizens Forum (Pensacola News Journal)
Florida Bar President Jay White appointed Pensacola mental-health counselor Connie Reeves Bookman to the Florida Bar's Citizens Forum for a three-year term.
- Poetry Gathering in Fernley on July 16 - Reno Gazette Journal
Poetry Gathering in Fernley on July 16Reno Gazette Journal, NV - 1 hour agoThis forum will give anyone who wishes to share their work the opportunity to do so. There will also be a special edition of the poetry leaflet, ...
- Judging the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukJudging the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 5 hours agoOrlando Figes's The Whisperers draws on letters, memoirs and conversations to depict personal life in Stalin's Russia. Hannah Rothschild said: "It's a book ...
- Redwood High senior wins first prize for poetry - Marin Independent-Journal
Redwood High senior wins first prize for poetryMarin Independent-Journal, CA - 5 hours agoRedwood High School senior Andrew Lin won first prize at the Marin Poetry Center's 19th annual High School Poetry Awards ceremony. Lin won for his poem ...
- Lost Dog collars $40,000 fiction prize (The Australian)
MELBOURNE author Michelle de Kretser has won the $40,000 Christina Stead Prize for fiction, the biggest of the NSW Premier's literary prizes announced in Sydney last night.
- Summer '08: Bring a chair and enjoy the weather as the best in mid ... - MLive.com
Summer '08: Bring a chair and enjoy the weather as the best in mid ...MLive.com, MI - 1 hour ago7 pm Thursday, June 19, "Rhythm and Art in Roethke's Children's Poetry," for children and their parents. 10 am-11:30 am Tuesday, June 24, "History of the ...
- Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi Wins a Peabody Award! (Payvand Iran News)
A Peabody went to Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi, from American Public Media. This edition of the long-running series explored resurgent interest in the 13th century Persian poet:
- Haver Scholarships award $79,000 to 16 students - Recorder Community Newspapers
Sixteen Hunterdon County high school seniors have been awarded $79,000 in college aid by the Jennie M. Haver Memorial Scholarship Fund. The Haver Fund has now bestowed $1,220,950 in scholarships to 430 students in its 52 years. For the first time ...
- CD Wright's 'Rising, Falling, Hovering' - International Herald Tribune
CD Wright's 'Rising, Falling, Hovering'International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoBut the fragmentary forms and skittering attention of her poems suggest that 21st-century activist poetry may face some novel challenges, ...
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