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- Lisa Starr: ‘Mad with Yellow’ (The Block Island Times)
Rhode Island’s poet laureate and island resident Lisa Starr proves the adage that the “show must go on.†Though she broke her leg playing tennis on Saturday with her husband Champ, Starr kept her promise to read from her recently published third book of poetry “Mad with Yellow†on Sunday afternoon, October 12. Her audience filled the sanctuary of the Harbor Baptist Church.
- Found in the translation - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeFound in the translationBoston Globe, United States - 56 minutes agoThe poems may be distant from American life in terms of origin and culture, but the details within them remain relevant to people reading the work today. ...
- Dole, McGovern receive World Food Prize - Southeast Farm Press
Dole, McGovern receive World Food PrizeSoutheast Farm Press - Nov 3, 2008But life has taken some funny turns for the two men, both of whom ran unsuccessful campaigns for president and are better known for things besides launching ...
- Youth flock to bust rhymes at poetry slams across the country (Whistler Question)
TORONTO - Once a month, in cities across the country, the atmosphere is electric as crowds of smooth-talking kids converge for a battle of words and ideas and beat.
- Cancer survivor to lecture, discuss book at Shawnee university (The Oklahoman)
SHAWNEE  Attorney and cancer survivor Jim Chastain will give a lecture at 7 p.m. today at St. Gregory's University, 1900 W MacArthur. Chastain is a writer, film critic and attorney for the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. The theme for his lecture is "When bad things happen to good writers.†He also will talk about his book, "I Survived Cancer, but Never Won the Tour de France.†Chastain ...
- Boston area author visits, Nov. 16-22 - Boston Globe (registration)
Boston area author visits, Nov. 16-22Boston Globe (registration), United States - Nov 14, 2008By Judith Maas SUNDAY: FD Reeve, Diana Der-Hovanessian, and Charles Phillips read at 3 pm, at the Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow St., Concord. ...
- Ludwig von Mises Institute - Tu Ne Cede Malis (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
1. Dialectics and Marxism DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM as taught by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels is the most popular metaphysical doctrine of our age. It is today the official philosophy of the Soviet empire and of all the schools of Marxism outside of this empire.
- 'Double Helix' - Ashland Daily Tidings
A rollercoaster ride akin to the spiraling structure of DNA, "Double Helix" is a techno thriller that may leave you drop-jawed as to why you'd never heard of it or Ashland author Nancy Parker. Parker is that rare breed of cat in whose hands technical ...
- Worship Directory - Arlington Advocate
First Baptist Church , 819 Mass. Ave., 781-643-3024, fax 781-646-4882. The Rev. Dr. Jon Hevelone, pastor. Web site: www.firstbaptistarlington.org; email: info@firstbaptistarlington.org. Join us for Sunday Worship at 10 a.m. We are a congregation ...
- Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Ring' cycle delayed The Washington National Opera announced late last week that financial pressures would force the postponement of the final installment of the company's new production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle - a project undertaken in partnership with the...
- Holy Cow! What my 3,000-pound steer has taught me about faith. - Slate
I've attended churches, Quaker Meetings, synagogues, and Buddhist temples. I've taken yoga and read Joseph Campbell, Thomas Merton, C.S. Lewis, St. Augustine, and the Bible. I pray often. But I had an unsettling realization recently, which is that my ...
- The Atmospheric Railway, By Shena Mackay (Independent)
In Shena Mackay's lush, entrancing tales, people are never quite who they seem to be. In this collection of new and selected stories, a long-disappeared illusionist with an embroidered bolero and ornamental dagger emerges from the sea to revenge himself on the lover who betrayed him; a woman can turn into a ferocious goat to pursue the professor whose lecture she attends; a tenderly remembered ...
- Spirit of safari - Financial Times
Spirit of safariFinancial Times, UK - 8 hours agoThere's poetry to it - the stares of the heavy-headed wildebeests, the swirls of birds like tumbling schools of fish. It is intense, confounding, ...
- Writers on writing: Winter quarter English class is an open book - The Daily of the University of Washington
Writers on writing: Winter quarter English class is an open bookThe Daily of the University of Washington, WA - 13 minutes agoAnd for those who are studying poetry, fiction or nonfiction, the class will reinforce the fundamentals of writing. But, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be ...
- Community Digest - Tribune-Chronicle
Council to vote on land rules: The San Ramon City Council will meet tonight to consider approving changes to the way the city regulates and controls the division of city land. There are 10 changes or additions to the city's subdivision ordinance ...
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