Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Ways with Words festival at Dartington begins - Daily Telegraph Blogs
I'm back at Dartington Hall, Devon, for the Ways With Words festival. Has it come round so soon? The hall is as lovely as ever, the gardens as green. At a loss for something to say in my welcome speech I quote Marvell - "annihilating all that's made ...
- Poets to kick off Pig IronSSRqs daylong festival - Youngstown Vindicator
Poets to kick off Pig IronSSRqs daylong festivalYoungstown Vindicator, OH - 7 hours agoAn eight-hour stage program will feature 11 acts, including music, theater and poetry, and a talent show. The festival runs from 10 am to 9 pm Food will be ...
- He stood up to Wilt - Hampton Roads Daily Press
Even though Butch van Breda Kolff was an original, this basketball savant never marched to the beat of his own drummer. No, man. Just one drum? Boring, brother, boring. ''VBK'' boogied through life to the sweet, sweet sounds of a full orchestra. Some ...
- Voices from the past (Business Standard India)
Less story, more memory: new fiction looks back to re-imagine the past. Memory is in. It's the renaissance of the memoir, the biography and autobiography. Even fiction these days is read, and possibly written, as real life-stories transposed to a fictional context.
- Review: Gloria and The Hat, by Selima Hill (Guardian Unlimited)
Review: Gloria and The Hat, by Selima HillSelima Hill plumbs the depths and unearths more gems. By Fiona Sampson
- Marc Cabrera: Slams a chance to shine ... or come in last - Monterey County Herald
Marc Cabrera: Slams a chance to shine ... or come in lastMonterey County Herald, CA - 6 hours agoThere is no real reason for me to perform at poetry slams other than to seek attention and maybe inspire someone to write a poem themselves. ...
- Iconic Palestinian poet Darwish buried - Los Angeles Times
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK -- During the six years he spent in an Israeli prison, Haidar Jaradat read one poem over and over: "My Mother," by Mahmoud Darwish. "I long for my mother's bread," it begins. "My mother's coffee/Her touch." "It brought me comfort ...
- On and Off the Shelf: A Bookseller on Selling (and Reading) the Novel - Los Angeles Weekly
I have on my desk two new books on a subject that now seems to be so last century. The title of Jeff Gomez’s offering, Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age , speaks for itself. The cover illustration shows a USB connection, wire trailing off ...
- Review: Carla Bruni's new album - Daily Telegraph
The Premiere Dame may have a colourful past, but her music has always been as classically chic and subtly sexy as her Christian Dior wardrobe. The supermodel-turned-chanteuse has been worried that her left-leaning fanbase might desert her now she's ...
- More readers' favorites, but not for much longer - Kentucky.com
More readers' favorites, but not for much longerKentucky.com, KY - 21 hours agoâ€A great teen novel that's much deeper and much better than the average teen romance. Read this instead of Gossip Girl.“ 9. Saints at the River by Ron Rash. ...
- Wishes for Madiba pour in as city gets ready to party - Cape Argus (subscription)
Wishes for Madiba pour in as city gets ready to partyCape Argus (subscription), South Africa - 6 hours agoFestivities will include cultural performances, poetry, tributes by local school children and team members of both Ajax Cape Town and Santos, ...
- Final festival lineup decided - Montana Standard
The line-up for the 70th National Folk Festival is complete. Thirteen additional performers have been added to the roster for a total of 27. In all, 250 individuals will demonstrate, exhibit and perform at the festival July 11-13. The newest ...
- The satisfying compromises of collaboration - Daily Star - Lebanon
Daily Star - LebanonThe satisfying compromises of collaborationDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 19 hours ago"But this project started when a mutual friend suggested I work with Jacques poetry. "I worked with Jacques for about eight months on the adaptation. ...
- Best-Value Art Lovers' Getaway: Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival ... - Biloxi Sun Herald
Best-Value Art Lovers' Getaway: Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival ...Biloxi Sun Herald, USA - Jul 31, 2008... locally-flavored offerings as country music, cowboy poetry and regional cuisine -- all while surrounded by the Teton Mountains in their autumn glory. ...
- Grants available through LARAC - Glens Falls Post-Star
Grants available through LARACGlens Falls Post-Star, NY - 4 hours agoThis year’s funding priorities are master classes for teens, projects that celebrate our similarities and differences, the written word poetry readings, ...
|
|
Mortgage Refinancing
Florida Mortgage
Free Simple Mortgage Calculator
|