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- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance - San Francisco Gate
Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road Not Taken" and ...
- Play looks at poet in new light - Cape Cod Times
Play looks at poet in new lightCape Cod Times, MA - 50 minutes agoJudging from her poems and letters, scholars agree that the secretive Dickinson had a love life of her own. She was swept off her feet by Charles Wadsworth, ...
- Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize - NWITimes.com
NEW YORK - Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago-based ...
- NEA awards 'Big Read' grants (Contra Costa Times)
LOS ANGELES — The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host The Big Read, an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture.
- cold snack wins 2008 Montana NZ Book Award for Poetry - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
cold snack wins 2008 Montana NZ Book Award for PoetryScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 45 minutes agoJanet Charman’s cold snack, published by Auckland University Press, has won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and $5000. ...
- Poetry for the eye - Aucklander
Poetry for the eyeAucklander, New Zealand - 26 minutes agoSeventy artists and writers have enthusiastically tackled an idea dreamt up by artist Hannah- May Thompson and poet Christian Jensen. ...
- Dr. Joe Harrop: Entymological adventures and the same old words - Red Bluff Daily News
Dr. Joe Harrop: Entymological adventures and the same old wordsRed Bluff Daily News, CA - 4 hours ago... however, and I even began to enjoy poetry more, and I loved jump rope rhymes. There are only so many words that children shouldn't say at school, ...
- Peace Be With You - Cleveland Free Times
Peace Be With YouCleveland Free Times, OH - 2 hours agoIt'll be published by Cleveland-based vanZeno Press which has specialized in poetry books but, with this book, launches its Lyric Series. ...
- Make Art, Not War - Film Stew
Film StewMake Art, Not WarFilm Stew, CA - 13 hours agoAs part of the event, a group of Iraq veterans from both coasts will spend the week making art, poetry and written word out of their mulched uniforms, ...
- Author keeps readers on hook (Tacoma News Tribune)
For fans of fly-fishing author John Gierach, the wait is over.
- In a different medium, Lennon tapped into his childlike side - San Diego Union-Tribune
Most artists make a name for themselves in one field: visual art, writing, music, etc. But creative impulses don't have tidy boundaries, so they often spill over into other forms. Picasso wrote poetry, for example, some of it quite good. Henry Miller ...
- Arts calendar for 7/6-7/12/08 - Daily News Transcript
VILLAGE HARMONY, a teen world music ensemble based in Vermont, performs tonight at 7:30, at the First Parish Church, 7 Harrington Road, Lexington. The program features gospel and Appalachian music from America, traditional music from Bulgaria and ...
- The 10 most popular misconceptions about Oscar Wilde (Guardian Unlimited)
Merlin Holland is Oscar Wilde's grandson and the sole executor of his estate. He is the author of Irish Peacock & Amp; Scarlet Marquess, the first unabridged publication of the famous libel trial.Buy Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess at Amazon.co.uk
- Religious lesbian organization lays down code - Ynetnews
Religious lesbian organization lays down codeYnetnews, Israel - 2 hours agoHowever, the Bat-kol members will respect the different life-styles of their members, aspiring to establish mutual responsibility between them. ...
- Saginaw's 19th Annual All Area Arts Awards honors Marion Tincknell ... - MLive.com
Saginaw's 19th Annual All Area Arts Awards honors Marion Tincknell ...MLive.com, MI - 18 hours agoby Janet Martineau | The Saginaw News Poetry was a big winner Tuesday night at the 19th Annual All Area Arts Awards, sponsored by the Saginaw Arts and ...
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