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- Poetry Out Loud competition open to students (Muskogee Phoenix)
OKLAHOMA CITY —The Oklahoma Humanities Council announced plans for the 2009 Poetry Out Loud competition, a national recitation contest sponsored in cooperation with the Oklahoma Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation.
- Johann Hari: Dare we stand up for Muslim women? (Independent)
It's the smell I remember. Shahnaz's face – what was left of it – reeked of a day-old barbecue, left out in the rain. Her flesh was a mess of charred meat: her skin, the soft flesh of her cheeks, and the bones beneath had been burned away. Her nose was gone. Her lips hung down over her chin like melted wax. Her left eyelid couldn't close, so it watered all the time in an endless stream of ...
- RenFaire artists like to stay in character (Las Cruces Sun-News)
Las CRUCES — They come from next door and throughout the United States. They dress in Renaissance garb and often bring displays and decorate tents in tributes to lifestyles and traditions that date back several centuries.
- David Archuleta still adjusting to the limelight - MLive.com
NEW YORK -- On last season's "American Idol," David Archuleta's version of "Imagine" earned him the title of "the one to beat" early on. He never once placed in the bottom three. In the end, David ended up losing the crown to another David -- David ...
- Cho’s VT writings now online (The Hook)
Hundreds of pages of internal university documents released to the families of the victims of the April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech are now online. Among the papers posted by the Tech’s Collegiate Times are several writings by Seung Hui Cho, the 23-year-old senior who shot and killed 32 Tech students and faculty before [...]
- Beats, Streets and a Touch of Twang - New York Times
Beats, Streets and a Touch of TwangNew York Times, United States - 2 hours agoThe repertory forms a trustworthy picture of his sound world: not just his own songs but white and black gospel, cowboy tunes, obscure contemporary nothings ...
- Broken flowers, old boss inspire budding poets - Democrat and Chronicle
College didn't work out so well for Brian Guthrie the first time around, so he got a job at the Nalgene plant in Perinton, and later, working at Webster Plastics. He would read and write between tasks at the factory. He wrote poetry on the back of 3 ...
- People Profile --Clower spent 5 years as Hanoi POW, released with ... - Brenham Banner Press
People Profile --Clower spent 5 years as Hanoi POW, released with ...Brenham Banner Press, United States - 3 hours ago... would manage to put at least some of his strongest emotions into poetry, dedicated to Maurine and lamenting missing Virginia’s 13th-18th birthdays. ...
- Auxiliary Unit 164 holds ceremony - Bryan County News
Auxiliary Unit 164 holds ceremonyBryan County News, GA - 3 hours agoMonday, Bryan County Middle School students read selected poetry and essays written by the students themselves in addition to music performed by the school ...
- Patriotic Fervour Pervades Country (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI - With the UAE National Day just around the corner, colours of red, green, white and black dot roads, buildings and vehicles across the country and Emiratis and expatriates alike, belonging to every nationality, are bristling with the nationalist fervour.
- Arts & Entertainment: (Berkeley Daily Planet)
Teen Playreaders, which meets weekly at the Berkeley Public Library to read aloud from plays and monologues, have invited the whole community to their free show of Bizarre Shorts, featuring short plays, musical numbers and monologues (some original), “something for everybody, from Shakespeare to Sondheim to Stoppard,†7:30 p.m., this Saturday at the Willard Middle School Metal Shop Theater, 2425 ...
- News briefs - Kingston Reporter
News briefsKingston Reporter, MA - 1 hour agoThe New Art Forum will host “Art, Poetry and Music Night†from 7 to 9 pm Monday, Dec. 1. Call Lilias Cingolani for further information at 781-585-5622. ...
- A Pig with a Lip Stick is still a Pig - Ghana News
A Pig with a Lip Stick is still a PigGhana News, Ghana - 4 hours agoThere is not much to find in his drivel and tired prose. Often he launches into pompous language and obscurantism to mask his lack of substance. ...
- Youth with experience - Calcutta Telegraph
Youth with experienceCalcutta Telegraph, India - 11 hours agoFinally, Joy Goswami read out his poem, Tumi jaano, Srijatokishore, but it seemed to reinforce the idea that poetry is better read than listened to.
- Ricci wins Governor General's Award for fiction - Calgary Herald
Nino Ricci has won the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction for his novel, The Origin of Species. The Toronto writer beat out Rawi Hage (Cockroach), David Adams Richards (The Lost Highway), Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances) and ...
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