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- Hot time planned for Winter Festival - Northumberland Today
Hot time planned for Winter FestivalNorthumberland Today, Canada - 2 hours agoOther activities are still being planned, such as a seniors' swim, photography contest and, new this year, possibly a poetry contest, focusing on a winter ...
- Notables (Peoria Journal Star)
Clarinet choir concert coming up Nov. 16; Peoria Lunaire concert to feature student works; Other Guys to perform Friday at Waterhouse; Coal mining culture topic of book, talk; Art sleuth to speak Thursday at Lakeview; Change Up to perform at jazz society program; Two poets to read work at Venue in Washington; Reader, 'Tribute to God' will have shows at Arlee; Curley earns honor for S.C. theater ...
- Fla. man gets 30 years for fatal homeless beating - The Associated Press
Fla. man gets 30 years for fatal homeless beatingThe Associated Press - 12 hours agoHooks' family testified he had a loving home and was a caring child who looked out for his younger sister, wrote poetry with his grandmother and was captain ...
- Stage set in Lismore for bard boys - Lismore Northern Star
Stage set in Lismore for bard boysLismore Northern Star, Australia - 43 minutes agoTwo years ago he sold his 20-year-old real estate business, and after 'dabbling' in poetry for 10 years he published his first book of poems, called Small ...
- South Bend remembers 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht - WNDU
Sunday night is the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, when German troops moved through the country and destroyed 7,000 businesses, killed 91 Jews, and deported over 30,000 Jewish men to concentration camps. Temple Beth-El in South Bend held a ...
- Wham bam, thank you Slam - News.com.au
IT'S a novel idea ¿ applying the format of mainstream television contests such as Australian Idol to an underground artform like spoken-word poetry. Hosted in Perth by WritingWA, Australian Poetry Slam ’08 is a battle of the words in which ...
- Havel to receive Seifert prize for 2008 - Prague Daily Monitor
Havel to receive Seifert prize for 2008Prague Daily Monitor, Czech Republic - Sep 21, 2008The prize winner is announced annually on September 22, on the eve of the birthday anniversary of poet Seifert (1901-86), Charter 77 signatory, ...
- Area Writers Encouraged to Submit Works for Regional Anthology - EastOregonian.info (subscription)
Area Writers Encouraged to Submit Works for Regional AnthologyEastOregonian.info (subscription), OR - 3 hours agoThe collection will be called "Writing Home: An Eastern Oregon Anthology" and will feature a wide range of prose and poetry by writers of all ages from ...
- translations of the Qur'an - Beliefnet.com
Beliefnet.comtranslations of the Qur'anBeliefnet.com, NY - 9 hours agoBut reading the Qur'an, immersing yourself in its rhythm and poetry, is an active act. In my mind the singular image of Ramadan is not the lack of food but ...
- Dresden Novelist Wins Prestigious German Book Prize (Deutsche Welle)
The former Dresden medical doctor turned novelist won the German speaking world's most prestigious literary award in a event that preludes the Frankfurt Book Fair.
- Rosemarie DeWitt on 'Rachel Getting Married' - Los Angeles Times
"THE VIBE was like a good poetry slam or something," said Rosemarie DeWitt of working on the set of Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married" with its upscale-bohemian, groovy, multicultural backyard wedding. Although the cast includes DeWitt as ...
- Judith Harris' "Gathering Leaves in Grade School" - Seattle Times
Judith Harris' "Gathering Leaves in Grade School"Seattle Times, United States - 14 minutes agoAmerican Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the ...
- Carving an outdoor museum - Des Moines Register
Iowans, no doubt, will have plenty to say about the artwork in the future Pappajohn Sculpture Park. Mark di Suvero's spiky bundle of red steel beams will soon arrive, like an alien spaceship, near the corner of 15th and Locust streets. Tony Smith's ...
- U.S. Troops in Baghdad Take a Softer Approach (Washington Post)
BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 -- It was billed as a peace concert in war-scarred Baghdad. But after 30 minutes of poetry and patriotic songs, only a scattering of tribal leaders and dark-suited bureaucrats were sitting in the vast expanse of white plastic chairs before a stage painted with doves.
- 'No' means 'yes to beer' if you want to drink in Ottawa County on ... - MLive.com
KalamaBrew Illustration Although KalamaBrew does not endorse one side or the other, we still hope that you will make the time to go to the polls and vote on Nov. 4. HOLLAND -- Some Ottawa County residents might want a drink after trying to decipher ...
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