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- A Novel Reason for Rapture (Washington Post)
EXILES By Ron Hansen Farrar Straus Giroux. 227 pp. $23. Here is what happened when I began raving to some (very nice) friends about "Exiles," a new novel by Ron Hansen about how the 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came to write perhaps his most inaccessible poem, "The Wreck of the ...
- Literary Calendar (Austin American-Statesman)
Poetry on the Plaza: Lost and Found — Noon Wednesday. Graduate students from Coleman Hutchison's '19th Century American Poetry and the Poetics of the Page' class present a selection of American poems. Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe streets. Free. 471-8944 , www.hrc.utexas.edu.
- Summer issue of New England Review features fiction, poetry and prose - Middlebury College News and Events
Summer issue of New England Review features fiction, poetry and proseMiddlebury College News and Events, USA - 38 minutes agoThe issue also includes new fiction by Chris Gavaler, Rebecca Cook, David Philip Mullins, Rita Mae Reese, Robert Oldshue and Rebecca Makkai; poetry from ...
- Latvian Embassy in Estonia organizes "Poetry Ride 2008" - The Baltic Course
Latvian Embassy in Estonia organizes "Poetry Ride 2008"The Baltic Course, Latvia - 14 hours agoThis year "Poetry Ride 2008", organized jointly by the Latvian Embassy in Estonia, the Estonian Institute and the Finnish Institute, starts in Helsinki. ...
- Haunted by his prison job - Las Vegas Sun
Haunted by his prison jobLas Vegas Sun, NV - 2 hours agoOnce he left, he published poetry in newspapers and magazines about the job, and started a blog, Vegas Quixote, where he does more of the same: tell stories ...
- Syria on Screen - Al Arab Online
Conceived as a summation of life’s postponed projects, this beautifully shot black-and-white film is a monument to humankind’s great resilience and love of life in the face of loss, exile and death. Interviews with three Syrian women living in ...
- Virtual Greats Enters $1.5 Billion Virtual Goods Market - Consumer Electronics Net
SAN FRANCISCO, BUSINESS WIRE -- Millions of Us LLC, an agency specializing in virtual worlds and large online communities, today announced that it is launching a new company, Virtual Greats, to take advantage of the rapidly growing market for virtual ...
- Nomination period extended for state poet laureate honor - Daily Oklahoman
Nominations will be accepted from universities, poetry societies and other cultural organizations only, not from individuals. "Nominees should be distinguished poets who are residents of Oklahoma and who are committed to outreach and the promotion of ...
- CSULB dedicates a week of celebration to West Coast writers - Daily 49er
CSULB dedicates a week of celebration to West Coast writersDaily 49er, CA - 1 hour agoGuests will celebrate Locklin's career and the publication of two books of poetry. "One is a selection of Locklin's poems throughout his whole career, ...
- Festivities to mark Israel's 60th birthday - Charleston Post & Courier
The celebration begins. Today, Israel turns 60. The 1948 War of Independence and subsequent United Nations recognition established Israel as an autonomous modern Jewish state, and the first Jewish nation in two millennia. That independence came at no ...
- Ten questions with… (California Aggie)
Editor's note: UC Davis department of English lecturer John D. Boe recently sat down with Aggie Features Writer Danai Sakutukwa to talk about everything from his journey to UC Davis to his experience as a stand-up comedian.
- Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth opens 5th festival - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth opens 5th festivalFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 8 hours agoSeattle’s Deborah Birrane had two winners based on poetry. Eva Stone’s The Raven used literal reactions to a hilarious, updated version of Poe’s work; ...
- Art: Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence, Royal Academy, London - Guardian Unlimited
It is hard to believe that there could be any modern masters still left for rediscovery, in this country at least, but so it seems with the mysterious painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. He was a recluse who scarcely left the Copenhagen apartment he shared ...
- Mary-Sherman Willis' "The Laughter of Women" - Seattle Times
So often, reading a poem can in itself feel like a thing overheard. Here, Mary-Sherman Willis of Virginia describes the feeling of being... So often, reading a poem can in itself feel like a thing overheard. Here, Mary-Sherman Willis of Virginia ...
- 'Everything Is Cinema': A forgiving biography of Jean-Luc Godard (International Herald Tribune)
The author Richard Brody's urge to assess the film director's work thoroughly seems to spring from a heartfelt desire to comprehend this complicated and, by most accounts, thoroughly disagreeable man.
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