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- Washington's first poet laureate to read at Vashon Winery Sept. 6 - PNW Local News
Washington's first poet laureate to read at Vashon Winery Sept. 6PNW Local News, WA - 46 minutes agoGreen currently teaches at Seattle University and for many years has acted as editor, publisher and printer of poetry books for Brooding House Press in ...
- Scot given £10000 top prize for poetry - The Herald
Scot given £10000 top prize for poetryThe Herald, UK - 7 hours agoAnother Scottish poet, Don Patterson, won the prize for best single poem for Love Poem For Natalie Tusja' Beridze, which was described as "an affectionate ...
- Milton, who was blind, dictated the whole of Paradise Lost to a scribe - BBC News
BBC NewsMilton, who was blind, dictated the whole of Paradise Lost to a scribeBBC News, UK - 7 hours agoThe marathon covers all 12 books of the 1667 work, some 10000 lines of poetry. It gives an expansive retelling of the Creation, the defeat of the rebel ...
- Star power meets philanthropy with celeb charities (AP via Yahoo! News)
Bono battles the AIDS epidemic. Leonardo tries to make the world a greener place, and Martha has a soft spot for animals.
- Mark Morris's Romeo & Juliet, Barbican Theatre, London - Independent
Mark Morris's Romeo & Juliet, Barbican Theatre, LondonIndependent, UK - 7 hours agoBut any potential poetry is scuppered by the banality that follows, the pair whirling, joined at the wrists, as if in some celestial school playground. ...
- Retracing Fraser's steps pure poetry - Calgary Herald
Retracing Fraser's steps pure poetryCalgary Herald, Canada - 4 hours agovancouver Sun columnist Stephen Hume is not an academic -- for which readers of his luminous book about Simon Fraser can be eternally grateful. ...
- Michael Levy photographs of Cleveland's black churches go on view in a moving new exhibition (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Michael Stephen LevyMichael Levy's photographs of worshippers in Cleveland's black churches vary from a spirit of literal documentation to the near abstraction of "Red Hat.'' One of the joys of writing for a newspaper is watching a gifted staff photographer...
- Following his footsteps - guardian.co.uk
Following his footstepsguardian.co.uk, UK - 44 minutes agoHe began to produce literary features for the Times, a volume of poetry emerged and a study of Chatterton that led him to Shelley, who in the early 70s ...
- Book ban ends rare Arab-Israeli cultural exchange (Yahoo! Asia News)
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - For 15 years Israeli Saleh Abbasi has traded books between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbours, fostering a rare cultural link.
- Local poets to honor poetry professor, radio personality at Nov. 23 event (Dayton Daily News)
Conrad Balliet fell in love with poetry at an early age. He remembers his mother used to bounce him on her knee and recite verses to him in Pennsylvania Dutch.
- Leonard Cohen celebrates 74th year on Sunday, by performing in Bucharest (Nine O'Clock)
The famous Canadian singer Leonard Cohen is due to perform on Sunday, September 21, on the Bucharest Arch of Triumph Stadium, on his 74th birthday. The concert is part of a world tour that started on June 6 in Toronto, Canada.
- Did our History teachers lie to us? - Malaysia Today
Did our History teachers lie to us?Malaysia Today, Malaysia - 10 minutes agoThe modern state - the 'necessary evil'- dictates the ideology of historicising; thus the maxim "winners write history, losers write poetry or study ...
- UAS' Tidal Echoes now accepting submissions for 2009 edition - Capital City Weekly
UAS' Tidal Echoes now accepting submissions for 2009 editionCapital City Weekly, AK - 37 minutes agoAs in past years, Tidal Echoes once again will feature poetry, prose and all forms of artwork ranging from photography and paintings to sculptures, pottery, ...
- Review: Ways of Life by Andrew Motion - Telegraph.co.uk
Review: Ways of Life by Andrew MotionTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoHe faced a difficult brief in following on from an indisputably great poet, Ted Hughes, whose poetry was reinvigorated by the demands of public myth-making ...
- Gatherings at border break down barriers - San Diego Union Tribune
Gatherings at border break down barriersSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 10 minutes ago“We've had music and dancing, yoga and meditation, and always the poetry readings.†The area near the fence is marked with the celebrations of life and ...
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