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- A new and improved widow-maker - Chicago Tribune
A new and improved widow-makerChicago Tribune, United States - 36 minutes agoHe was a businessman, a salesman, and his life illustrates what author William Dean Howells once called "that American poetry of vivid purpose. ...
- How Ghadar Forged Patriotism Among Diasporic Desis - Indolink
The stories that books on South Asian immigration tell us are nearly all the same: the theme is of unmitigated, runaway success. Success, yes, but the price paid by some of the Indian immigrants of the early 1910s was with their lives: deportation ...
- Teens forced to take poetry class (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
By JOHN CURRAN Associated Press MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former ...
- Slam some poetry - Malaysia Star
Slam some poetryMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 5 hours agoAt this month’s KL Poetry Slam, you get the chance to wax lyrical about life’s two certainties (forget taxes!): Death and Dessert. ...
- 'Crazy Girl With Lighter' Author In West Hartford - Hartford Courant
'Crazy Girl With Lighter' Author In West HartfordHartford Courant, United States - 1 hour agoIt was partly through writing that she regained her footing, and now, at 29, she has published a poetry collection, "Crazy Girl With Lighter" (Antrim House, ...
- Tagore elevated Bengali Literature to new heights - New Nation
After Pohela Boishakh, 25th Boishakh keeps occupying the Bengali with another greenish aspiration for enlivening Bengali bond among us. This especial day has been bejeweled by the arrival of one great scholar of Bengali literature for which our ...
- Young Vic's New Season to Include Weill's Street Scene and McCraney U ... - Playbill
The Young Vic has announced its new slate of productions that will run from July 2008-January 2009. Among the attractions are a new production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene , the return of Peter Brook's production of a bill of five short Samuel ...
- Palestinian poet: History laughs at both victim and aggressor - Haaretz.com
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish said on Wednesday his new works blend sarcasm and a deep sense of hope in their treatment of the decades-old conflict with Israel. Darwish drew thousands of Palestinians to a rare public reading in the West Bank city ...
- Book Briefs: Sunday, July 6, 2008 (The Oklahoman)
Mysteries • "Last Rituals†by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (William Morrow, $23.95). The mutilated body of a German student is discovered at the University of Reykjavik, and police quickly make an arrest. But the student's parents think the police have the wrong man. The parents send a representative to hire Thora Gudmundsdottir, an attorney and single mom who takes the case because she needs the ...
- Remembering Bobby Kennedy - Macleans.ca
Remembering Bobby KennedyMacleans.ca, Canada - 4 hours agoWhen addressing the crowd, Kennedy spoke without notes and, in his unique way, referred to poets to bring solace to the devastated crowd. ...
- Long may it wave, laundry on the line - Quad City Times
Long may it wave, laundry on the lineQuad City Times, IA - 1 hour agoA recent Sunday column, “Hanging Out,†has brought everything from poetry and oodles of letters to a box of clothespins. “People who do not hang their ...
- Betjeman popular in town hall - Morley Observer
Betjeman popular in town hallMorley Observer, UK - 29 minutes agoCoun Varley had even donned tennis whites and sunvisor to match, in honour of Teacakes and Tennis Whites, a John Betjeman collection of poems and prose. ...
- New writers' group launched in Ripon - Ripon Today
New writers' group launched in RiponRipon Today, UK - 18 minutes ago“Feel free to bring along any prose or poetry you may have written for a lively, uncompetitive and, hopefully, enjoyable evening,†says organiser Tim ...
- Arts Calendar: 6/5-6/8 (The MetroWest Daily News)
A listing of events in and around MetroWest for Thursday, June 5, through Sunday, June 8.
- Grey Bruce Poetry Project (Owen Sound Sun Times)
I believe poetry is the core of language, the shortest distance between two hearts, the song of our species. Poetry is a community across countries and borders.
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