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- Happy Birthday, Stephen Crane, Author of “The Red Badge of Courage†- findingDulcinea
findingDulcineaHappy Birthday, Stephen Crane, Author of “The Red Badge of Courageâ€findingDulcinea, New York - 32 minutes agoCrane continued to write, churning out 100 stories and sketches, two volumes of poetry, and six novels in his short career. Based on his own experiences of ...
- 'The Express' Tells the Story of Ernie Davis' Love and Battles - The Ledger
Rob Brown and Dennis Quaid in a scene from "The Express," the story of Ernie Davis, the first black to win the Heisman Trophy. click to enlarge The new film "The Express" - about Syracuse running back Ernie Davis - holds special importance for Helen ...
- The new Cicero - Guardian Unlimited
In the run-up to the US presidential election, the online magazine Slate ran a series of dictionary definitions of "Obamaisms". One ran thus: "Barocrates (buh-ROH-cruh-teez) n. An obscure Greek philosopher who pioneered a method of teaching in which ...
- National Public Lands Day focused on GBNP (Ely Daily Times)
Great Basin National Park, Baker, NV, October 3, 2008 - Great Basin National Park was the site for this year's White Pine County National Public Lands Day event held on Saturday, September 27. A total of 94 area residents joined with local, state and federal agency employees in the largest annual coast-to-coast, single-day volunteer restoration effort for America's public lands.
- Word of Mouth seeks members for slam poetry and more - Pace University The Pace Press (subscription)
Word of Mouth seeks members for slam poetry and morePace University The Pace Press (subscription), NY - 2 hours agoThe art of spoken word poetry is a collaborative effort. Some of the members simply write, some prefer to perform and others are a total package, ...
- Peter Schjeldahl: Joan Miró at MOMA. (The New Yorker)
I want to assassinate painting,†Joan Miró is reported to have said, in 1927. Four years later, the Catalan modern master elaborated, in an interview: “I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.†(He is quoted, along similar lines, as having put . . .
- Oration contest for Oyster Gala - The Westerly
Oration contest for Oyster GalaThe Westerly, Canada - 3 hours agoThe contest calls for poetry, prose, or spoken word entries with the winning submission to be read aloud at the Oyster Gala on Nov. 22. ...
- Fflur’s young, gifted and Welsh - WalesOnline
Fflur’s young, gifted and WelshWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 7 hours ago“The fact that she works mainly in poetry helped,†said Fflur. “But we didn’t want people to pick up on the association. As my career has developed and I ...
- Tate08 Series: William Blake - The River of Life Opens in December (Art Daily)
William Blake, Newton, 1795/circa 1805 © Tate 2008. LONDON.- At the end of 2008, Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture, Tate Liverpool is presenting a display of major works by William Blake (1757-1827), the renowned painter, printmaker, poet and mystical philosopher.
- Bill Conlin: In heavyweight bouts, Birds 1-1 - Philadelphia Daily News
PLAYING THE Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers back-to-back is like fighting Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier 6 days apart. Having lost a narrow decision to the Cowboys' dancing, prancing Ali, Andy Reid prepared for the unbeaten Steelers' mauling ...
- Setting my voice free with journalistic vaudeville - The Herald
Setting my voice free with journalistic vaudevilleThe Herald, UK - 9 hours agoThe workshop's theme was "Finding your voice", and it covered fiction, non-fiction, poetry - and newspaper columns. Peter Jenkins, that outstanding ...
- Two of a Kind: A Chat with Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman (Playbill Arts)
While still in rehearsal, the longtime friends chatted with writer Jason Victor Serinus about their duo-recital program that toured the country this month.
- Waterstone's should not have been shouted down by Christian Voice - guardian.co.uk
Waterstone's should not have been shouted down by Christian Voiceguardian.co.uk, UK - 10 hours agoChristian Voice's campaign wasn't even half as orchestrated or as personal or as vicious as the one they waged against the BBC's screening of Jerry ...
- Shakespeare and Steampunk (The Epoch Times)
One of Shakespeare's great comedies of mistaken identity and misguided love, “Twelfth Night†has been adapted into a highly original show by New York director Cat Parker at the Maddox Theater on W. 26th St.
- Writers Receive Whiting Awards - Authorlink (subscription)
Writers Receive Whiting AwardsAuthorlink (subscription), TX - 6 hours agoRick Hilles, poetry. His first collection, Brother Salvage, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is an assistant professor in the MFA ...
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