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- Thursday 2nd October National Poetry Day - Indymedia Ireland
Liam Aungier is a poet from Kildare. His collection Apples in Winter was published by Doghouse books. Among other awards, he was twice runner up in the Patrick Kavanagh Award. Ross Hattaway was born in Wellington New Zealand, but has lived in Ireland ...
- China Opera Festival - CCTV
CCTVChina Opera FestivalCCTV, China - Oct 10, 2008Poetry, romance, elegant music and beautiful surroundings integrated in what we know today as Kunqu Opera. Today Kunqu opera, considered the pinnacle of ...
- Jewelle Gomez and Diane Sabin (New York Times)
The couple were married Saturday at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library.
- Louis Riel's death-row poetry set for auction - Winnipeg Free Press
A Toronto antiquarian is set to auction a "never before seen" set of poems handwritten by the famed Métis rebel leader Louis Riel and given to one of the Mounties who guarded him at a Regina jail ahead of his 1885 hanging for treason. The artifacts ...
- Days of Macedonian Culture in Serbia - MINA
Days of Macedonian Culture in SerbiaMINA, Canada - 14 hours agoPoets Svetlana Hristova-Jocic, Petko Dabeski and Hristo Petkovski presented part of Macedonia's poetry treasury, proving that such events are the best ...
- Humor, Poetry and Politics in New Group Exhibition - IcelandReview
Humor, Poetry and Politics in New Group ExhibitionIcelandReview, Iceland - 3 hours agoIn their artwork, humor, poetry and politics were used as means to define or reveal certain life values. The artists in the exhibition use different forms ...
- Digitization | ‘Open Yale’ sparks global interest - Yale Daily News
About a month after his “Fundamentals of Physics†course was posted on the Open Yale Courses Web site in December 2007, physics professor Ramamurti Shankar received an e-mail from a high school teacher at Victoria Bilingual Christian Academy in ...
- Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini (The Christian Science Monitor)
(From Barnes & Noble review) 11/24/2008 Khaled Hosseini A conversation with James Mustich, Editor-in-Chief, Barnes & Noble Review Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965. At the age of 11, he moved to Paris with his family as a result of his father's diplomatic posting to the French capital by the Afghan ...
- Hood will host poetry reading - Business Gazette
Hood will host poetry readingBusiness Gazette, MD - 6 hours agoWardrop is also the author of two books of literary criticism, "Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge" and "Word, Birth, and Culture in the Poetry ...
- I believe in UFOs. Am I crazy? - Salon
My daughter saw a UFO while at a camp in Idaho a few summers ago. Her recitation of the event was rather cavalier; she described its dimensions and its behavior and told me there were other people with her that witnessed it. My interest was piqued ...
- 1-25 of 177 results - Seattle Weekly
Category Art Exhibitions Art Openings & Events Books & Authors Cabaret/Burlesque/Variety Classical/Opera Club Events Comedy Dance Family Events Fashion Festivals/Parades Food Events Lectures LGBT Local Film/Arthouse Museums Music Poetry/Spoken Word ...
- Funny poet visits school to seek out budding bards - Epworth Bells
Funny poet visits school to seek out budding bardsEpworth Bells, UK - 2 hours agoSTUDENTS from two Isle schools enjoyed an interactive poetry session with a difference earlier this week. Performance poet and sell-out funnyman John Hegley ...
- Don’t Be Afraid to Study War - Inside Higher Ed
Don’t Be Afraid to Study WarInside Higher Ed, DC - 2 hours agoIn a World War II era poem, “Of Modern Poetry,†Wallace Stevens declared that among other things, modern poetry “has to think about war. ...
- Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize (Portage Daily Graphic)
NEW YORK  Judges for the National Book Awards honoured a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen’s ‘‘The Shadow Country.’’
- Mark Doty Wins National Book Award for Poetry (The Advocate)
An acclaimed gay writer just got more acclaimed. Writer Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems won the National Book Award for poetry at an awards presentation Wednesday night in New York City.
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