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- Library fall programs for adults, seniors suit all (The Chelsea Standard)
The McKune Memorial Library presents a full schedule of programs geared toward adults for this fall and early winter. "We look forward to the return of such favorite programs as Books & Banter and the International Book Club," Harmer noted.
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
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 opinions. He once argued that the public schools of his youth prepared neither blacks nor whites for "life in a multiracial, democratic nation." He called ...
- The Poetics Of Professional Tweeting (WebProNews)
Let’s assume we’re on the same page that says Twitter is good for something. Now let’s romanticize it and equate to a modern limerick; let’s make it vulgar and call it Limerick 2.0. (The number of characters bars it from Haiku status—keep all that meaning under 30 characters and that’s serious art.) What should your little poem—the professional tweeter’s poem—say to the world? read more ...
- Getting His Goat: Fun at the Mid-State Fair - Times Press Recorder
Getting His Goat: Fun at the Mid-State FairTimes Press Recorder, CA - 2 hours agoFeatured public contests include: the ugliest cake, famous cookie recipe, adult cake decorating, good ol’ cowboy poetry, junior fashion show, ...
- IIFF Arbiter Picks: (The Arbiter)
5. “Humboldt County†Directed by Danny Jacobs and Darrin Grodsky, Egyptian, Sunday, 7 p.m. A film taking consideration to the search for happiness and acceptance in an unlikely setting – backwoods marijuana farms.
- Out and About: Sept. 10 - 21 - Raynham Call
Out and About: Sept. 10 - 21Raynham Call, MA - 3 hours agoOpen mic signup, 8 pm Open mic followed by featured poet, concludes with poetry slam. The Trinity Church Flea Market every Saturday. ...
- Poet's Choice (Washington Post)
When prose cult figure David Foster Wallace committed suicide on Sept. 12, he succumbed to the depression that's murdered too many literary titans. The loss slammed into my solar plexus like a black medicine ball, knocking the wind out of me.
- William Golding - guardian.co.uk
William Goldingguardian.co.uk, UK - 13 hours agoGolding began writing at seven and published his first volume of poetry before completing his BA. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 (to some ...
- Northern Virginia Art Beat - Falls Church News-Press
Neo Indie Arts Festival, at the Jefferson Community Center (3501 S. 2nd St., Arlington) on July 26, between 6 - 11 p.m. You can find a little bit of everything here: a battle of the bands, ongoing performances, art exhibit, ‘zine making workshop ...
- Beatniks and Hollywood Royalty Descend Upon Edmonton Edmonton ... - DVD Creation
EDMONTON, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/08/08 -- Edmonton Festivals bring life to the streets for poetry lovers. If to you poetry means the stuff you did in high school English, think again: this is combat in the form of "blink poetry," a yell-a-thon ...
- Father finds solace to cope with death of firefighter son - Palm Beach Post
Father finds solace to cope with death of firefighter sonPalm Beach Post, United States - 6 hours agoPaul had a knack for carpentry and also enjoyed painting with watercolors and writing poetry. His chest and his arms were covered in Celtic tattoos that his ...
- Neil Griffiths' top 10 books about outsiders - guardian.co.uk
Neil Griffiths' top 10 books about outsidersguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe Palm at the End of the Mind by Wallace Stevens If poetry has more than its fair share of outsiders, American poetry has some of its oddest. ...
- `Billy Elliot,' Harry Potter's `Equus' Lead New Broadway Season - Bloomberg
`Billy Elliot,' Harry Potter's `Equus' Lead New Broadway SeasonBloomberg - 3 hours agoCast with teenagers and an onstage adolescent rock band, it premiered in January 2007 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and was shepherded to New York ...
- Casting Complete for Shanley & Krieger's Musical Romantic Poetry - Playbill
Jeb Brown, Jerry Dixon, and Emily Swallow have joined the company of Romantic Poetry, the new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger, which Manhattan Theatre Club will give a world premiere this fall. The complete cast for the New Yawk ...
- Arboretum honors founder (Albany Times Union)
Festival on Saturday celebrates legacy of Landis founder ESPERANCE -- The Landis Arboretum will celebrate its founder's legacy Saturday with a day of family-friendly activities and a night of music by starlight.A renaissance man of his day, Arboretum founder Fred Lape was a poet, musician, English professor, writer and amateur botanist who attracted a following in the local community. ...
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