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- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - San Diego Union-Tribune
HONOLULU – At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- A macabre little treat - Globe and Mail
A macabre little treatGlobe and Mail, Canada - 29 minutes ago... to remake Giovanni Boccaccio's sexual-shenanigans classic The Decameron as an adrenalin-driven teen flick clad in period costumes and set in Tuscany. ...
- Poetry for the masses in Brighton - Chichester Observer
Multi-millionaire businessman Felix Dennis is reclaiming poetry for the masses once again with his latest collection. "I think in the last 60 years since Ezra Pound edited The Wasteland for T S Eliot, poetry entered a very rarefied world and became ...
- Did Van Gogh Need More Sleep? Starlit Obsessions at MoMA Show - Bloomberg
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Sunflowers aside, Vincent Van Gogh was captive to the night. The nocturnal sky is full of brightly ringed stars and spirals in ``The Starry Night,'' one of the top draws in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art ...
- Nadine Chapman: Colleague and friend - Whitworthian
Nadine Chapman: Colleague and friendWhitworthian, WA - 2 hours agoCooley first met Chapman in a poetry-writing group, and both volunteered at their children’s elementary school as reading tutors. “Nadine had a quiet grace ...
- Community Calendar - Daily Comet
Community CalendarDaily Comet, LA - Oct 5, 2008The event, sponsored by the Thibodaux Main Street program and the Houma Regional Arts Council, features visual art, live music, poetry readings, food, ...
- Review: Kristofferson's humility, talent charm his audience - Canada.com
Review: Kristofferson's humility, talent charm his audienceCanada.com, Canada - 2 hours agoBut his phrasing is pure poetry. There are reasons why the people who have covered his songs - Jerry Lee Lewis, Faron Young, Roger Miller, Ray Price, ...
- Wordslingers 2008 brings a modern message from the 13th Century - Union
The answers can be found at Literature Alive!'s Wordslingers 2008 on Sept. 13 with poet, Coleman Barks. Dr. Barks, poet and professor emeritus of the University of Georgia in Athens, has gained worldwide acclaim as the primary English translator of ...
- Sidway creates sesquicentennial buzz - EastOregonian.info (subscription)
Sidway creates sesquicentennial buzzEastOregonian.info (subscription), OR - 8 hours agoBut even if that's too difficult to pronounce, she at least wants to get Oregonians thinking about their state's 150th birthday - which officially is Feb. ...
- Quantum poetics (Guardian Unlimited)
A friend emailed months ago and asked me to contribute to an anthology of "space poems". He was pairing up poets with astronomers in the hopes that new poetry would result, and my counterpart was Paul Murdin, the treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Pupils have a green day - Shields Gazette
Pupils have a green dayShields Gazette, UK - 2 hours ago... ate, a waste-free picnic. The oldest children in the school made tribal masks and bird feeders, wrote poetry and held a debate: deforestation versus ...
- TOPIC: Re:Question about peoria - Flattrack.com
TOPIC: Re:Question about peoriaFlattrack.com, CA - 10 hours ago... was free. I'd pay $50 to go back in time and see it again. LOL Roberts on a 750 yamaha on a TT in the Astrodome and at Peoria was simply poetry in motion.
- Art: Old salts in a new vessel - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Art: Old salts in a new vesselMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 2 hours agoWinona's poet laureate, James Armstrong, an English professor at Winona State University, kicked off the program with a reading of sea-themed poetry. ...
- Quran contest takes on reality shows - The National
Quran contest takes on reality showsThe National, United Arab Emirates - 11 minutes agoUnlike previous shows in the North African nation modelled on American Idol-style talent competitions, the new programme will see reciters compete against ...
- Book Festival Schedule - RedOrbit
Book Festival ScheduleRedOrbit, TX - 18 hours agoHere is a selected list of Milwaukee Book Festival events from today through Oct. 14. Unless otherwise noted, admission is free. For a complete schedule, ...
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