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- Hue student and Kieu on stone (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – The Huong River banks in Hue city are now decorated by special stone blocks which have lines of poetry from the famous Tale of Kieu by great poet Nguyen Du.
- Jurist finds the sacred in daily life - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeJurist finds the sacred in daily lifeBoston Globe, United States - 52 minutes agoJudge Charles Reynard is a Roman Catholic who finds poetry more serene than the prayers uttered in church. (ESSDRAS M SUAREZ/BOSTON GLOBE) Two Mondays ago, ...
- Great Book of Gaelic exhibition launched in Corner Brook - St. John's Telegram
Great Book of Gaelic exhibition launched in Corner BrookSt. John's Telegram, Canada - 9 hours agoThe Great Book of Gaelic celebrates Gaelic poetry of Ireland and Scotland from its earliest written sources to the 21st century as interpreted by artists ...
- Tony Fitzpatrick exhibit a real cause for celebration - Chicago Sun-Times
It's not often that art openings in Chicago turn into sprawling celebrations of sheer joy. But last week's opening-night party for "The Wonder -- Portraits of a Remembered City," the beautiful new show of drawing-collages by Tony Fitzpatrick, was one ...
- Bach Festival asks Swede for new take on ‘Messiah’ - Register-Guard
STOCKHOLM — Prominent Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström has written a new “Messiah†that will have its world premiere during the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival. Sandström’s setting of the text from George Frideric Handel’s famous oratorio ...
- When Hemingway turned his hand to verse - guardian.co.uk
When Hemingway turned his hand to verseguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoHemingway scribbled two poems - unpublishable at the time because of their rudeness - in the 1925 first edition of In Our Time for his lifelong friend and ...
- Priceless gifts for Mother's Day (Dayton Daily News)
Sunday, May 11, is Mother's Day, and if you're lucky enough to have a mother still living, you should be thinking about what would be meaningful to her.
- Longtime letter-writer dies - Albany Democrat-Herald
Lunette Mulkey, a 20-year Albany resident and one of the most prominent writers of letters to the Democrat-Herald, has died. She was 96. A longtime writer, though never professionally, Mulkey was a regular contributer to the “Editor’s Mailbag ...
- Kiwi's affair with death row killer - New Zealand Herald
Kiwi's affair with death row killerNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 1 hour agoAbout a year ago they "fell for each other", reading poetry and weekly letters _ "keeping New Zealand Post in business", she joked. ...
- Art calendar - Monterey County Herald
Art calendarMonterey County Herald, CA - 56 minutes agoPoetry trail hikes, nature photography tutorials and plein air demonstrations with local artists. Cost: $9 per car; discounts for seniors. ...
- 'Scandal' needs schooling in comedy - The Washington Times
One of the scandalous things about "School for Scandal" is how it strains for laughs. Dry-eyed through a tragedy, you can endure, but not cracking many smiles during a comedy is particularly insufferable. All the ingredients for laugh-inducing ...
- Wilmington storyteller's resume reveals long list of jobs - WRAL
Posted: Today at 12:02 a.m. WILMINGTON, N.C. — Ronald McDonald performer. Circus clown boss. Musician in a Cajun/Zydeco band. Actor, wizard, pirate. Stilt walker. Radio man. The Star-News of Wilmington reports that John Henry Scott's eccentric ...
- "The Pearl": a nobleman defies social conventions (Seattle Times)
"The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia" by Douglas Smith is a love story between the richest nobleman in Imperial Russia and a young serf with a spellbinding operatic voice — the scribbler of a bodice-ripper romance novel could not ask for better stuff.
- Diminished Capacity - Chicago Sun-Times
Diminished CapacityChicago Sun-Times, United States - 3 hours agoHe searches the resulting manuscripts for actual words, and combines them into poetry. Well, if monkeys can do it, why not fish? The plot deepens. ...
- Latifa surprises fans - Al-Bawaba
Al-BawabaLatifa surprises fansAl-Bawaba, Jordan - 1 hour agoLatifa will also participate in the award ceremony in honoring the late Lebanese poet Nizar Al Qabani, where she sang some of his poetry with the Iraqi ...
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