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- Animal whisperers help you communicate with your pets - Kansas City Star
Ears twitching wildly, Nikki and Lucy hovered near the telephone, aroused by the caller on the other end. He was their "whisperer," and the girls had something to tell me: "Their food tastes like sawdust." Nikki and Lucy are my 10-year-old cats. They ...
- Publisher Martin Reiner on books, business and Brno (Radio Prague)
As well as being a poet and novelist, Martin Reiner is one of this country’s most successful publishers. He has been in the business since 1991, first at Brno’s Nakladatelstvà Petrov, which he took over after a year at the helm, and more recently at Nakladatelstvà Druhé město (Second City Publishers), which he set up in 2005. He publishes the Czech Republic’s best-selling contemporary writer, ...
- Take a Look into the Complicated Life of a Straightforward Author of Poetry and Prose (PR.com)
The poetry in this collection speaks of issues people encounter everyday. Life experiences that would wear some people down have made this young writer stronger. [PR.com - June 17, 2008]
- Poetry Reading at Dr. Java Coffeehouse - WKRG
Dr. Java Coffeehouse (across from the University of South Alabama) is thrilled to announce our first Poetry Reading this Sunday, May 25th at 2:30PM. Our featured reader is Stephen Hedrick, Executive Director of the Mobile Symphony and author of Tall ...
- William Stafford's Poetry of False Witness (The New York Sun)
When William Stafford (1914-93) was given the National Book Award for poetry, for his 1962 collection "Traveling Through the Dark," the judges said of his poems that "their music knows the value of silence." This seems a dubious tribute. Would a composer be acclaimed for his mastery of rests? In fact, though Stafford often wrote about silence — and made grand claims for it — he was an unusually ...
- Narrow Minded (The Tuscaloosa News)
A disturbing genre of Web video flaunts extreme thinness. Is it art or dangerous propaganda?
- Authors get rock-star treatment at Brazil festival - Washington Post
Resize Text PARATY, Brazil (Reuters) - Paulo Cavalcante rode buses for 46 hours from the dusty Brazil northeast to this coastal town for the chance to rub literary shoulders with British dramatist Tom Stoppard and other famous writers. "This is ...
- New book explains author's struggle with misdiagnosis (Cape Gazette)
Local author Christina Weaver chose to begin her second book in Peggi Hurley’s Ancient Art Tattoo Studio on Route 1 near Lewes.
- Jacksonville poetry artists look forward to international slam - Florida Times-Union
Lucie Roberts is enthusiastic about spitting - the hip-hop term that has found its way to spoken-word poetry. Roberts says spoken-word poetry is a way to speak her mind and share a message. In her poem, Hypocrite , the Jacksonville Beach teen ...
- Hey kids, enter your works of art in competition - York Daily Record
Hey kids, enter your works of art in competitionYork Daily Record, PA - 7 hours agoPainting, sculpture, jewelry, photography, mixed media, poetry, short story and illustrated books are accepted media. Deadline for submissions is 1 pm July ...
- EDITORS' PICKS - Los Angeles Times
EDITORS' PICKSLos Angeles Times, CA - 53 minutes agoPerformers include folk trio the Chapin Sisters, nouveau mariachi band the Mariachi Divas and comedy ensemble Culture Clash, as well as folk dance, poetry ...
- 'Shack' improbably houses unusual success, grace - Star-Gazette
A little novel written by an Oregon salesman and self-published by two former pastors with a $300 marketing budget is lighting up USA Today's Best-Selling Books list with a wrenching parable about God's grace. First-time author William P. Young's ...
- Spice vendor finds niche in New York City, selling wares to upscale ... - Canada East
NEW YORK - With his flowing black hair, bushy beard and slight paunch, Behroush Sharifi hops off his bicycle and bounds into an expensive restaurant on the Upper West Side. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Tina Fineberg Behroush Sharifi, left, stands by as chef ...
- Animal whisperers come out of the shadows - The Canadian Press
Animal whisperers come out of the shadowsThe Canadian Press, NEW YORK - 2 hours agoIt's a love-hate sister relationship." It was Lucy's turn next. Link said he could see her "strong, healthy body" and that she took offence when I told him ...
- Daily TWiP - Limerick Day - Nashua Telegraph
Welcome to the Daily TWiP (short for The Week in Preview), a daily online round-up of unique holidays, compelling historical observances, nifty birth and death anniversaries, and all the other odds and ends we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview ...
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