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- David Miliband and the art of criticism (Times Online)
Whatever else one thinks of David Miliband, he should be applauded for reviving what my English teacher used to call practical criticism.
- Idaho Peace Coalition to host discussion - IdahoStatesman.com
Idaho Peace Coalition to host discussionIdahoStatesman.com, ID - 3 hours agoSmith-Ferri will use poetry, stories and slides to tell the story of the Iraqi people. For information call 853-4435, or e-mail idahopeacecoalition@msn.com. ...
- The opinion pages: mostly a man's world - San Francisco Gate
When it comes to the opinion pages of some of the most influential American newspapers, it's far too often a man's world. One reason for the disparity is obvious: Women are still breaking through glass ceilings in business, government and academia ...
- Parallel Lives - Weekly Standard
Born a little over 150 years apart, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) both had the experience, on the threshold of adulthood--he was 20, she 22--of fleeing the culture they'd grown up in and entering another. For both, it ...
- No Shushing in This Library - San Diego Reader
No Shushing in This LibrarySan Diego Reader, CA - 1 hour agoA bulletin board reminds us that it’s the Year of the Rat or National Poetry Month. We don’t have art like the new libraries, which have benefited from the ...
- 'Poetry Out Loud' comes to town - The Huntsville Times - al.com
'Poetry Out Loud' comes to townThe Huntsville Times - al.com, AL - 45 minutes agoAt the regional level, the Huntsville Literary Association is providing $100 first-place prizes for recitation and for poetry writing, a state requirement ...
- Writers recommend the perfect literary travelling companions (Guardian Unlimited)
Take Alexandre Dumas to Paris, read Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil, pack Michael Dibdin for Sicily - wherever you are going on holiday this summer, writers recommend the perfect literary travelling companions
- A Whole New Approach to Modern Art - FOXBusiness
A Whole New Approach to Modern ArtFOXBusiness - 6 hours agoOther installations invite geocachers to add their own poetry and handiwork. Sculptures are hidden at 11 secret, family-friendly destinations in the ...
- Kay Ryan Is Named New U.S. Poet Laureate (The Online NewsHour)
The Library of Congress announced Thursday the appointment of Kay Ryan as the 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009.
- Family stories They mess you up - Economist
Family stories They mess you upEconomist, UK - 27 minutes agoIt had been a close shave, but what saved her in the end came from her father at his best: a love of writing, language, learning poetry, telling stories, ...
- Rhyme And Reason - Jamestown Post Journal
Rhyme And ReasonJamestown Post Journal, NY - 6 hours ago''There's so much bad poetry. I feel poetry exists when the limits of prose have been exhausted.'' Collins also said he writes addressing his readers and ...
- A new chapter for Kenny’s (The Galway Advertiser)
Des Kenny of Kenny’s Bookshop. Photo:- Mike Shaughnessy When Kenny’s closed its bookshop on High Street it was the end of an era, not only in Galway business life, but also in Galway literature and bookselling.
- Long-running workshop boosts writers (Post-Tribune)
GARY -- The Gary Historical and Cultural Society held its annual Writers Workshop at St. John Lutheran Church recently, allowing published and aspiring writers to share their ideas on creativity, choosing a topic and self-publishing.
- Review: 'Diminished Capacity' - RedOrbit
Review: 'Diminished Capacity'RedOrbit, TX - 2 hours agoActually, they're attached to dangling hooks, and it's the fish below who are creating poetry. The typewriter belongs to Uncle Rollie (Alan Alda), ...
- Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranks - Times Online
Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranksTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoAnd when, in the same poem, he records how ‘the wheels lurched over sprawled dead’, he was the driver of the limber-carriage referred to, ...
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