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- Guest column: New prize to tap richness of state's history - DesMoinesRegister.com
Guest column: New prize to tap richness of state's historyDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 17 hours agoThe Iowa History Prize follows the model of the Iowa Poet Laureate, a title that personalizes poetry by attaching a name and face to that powerful and broad ...
- Snackr: A Tasty RSS Reader - Washington Post
Snackr: A Tasty RSS ReaderWashington Post, United States - Jun 30, 2008... is broken whenever I look at my task bar, wasting valuable brain cycles until I realize the author, Narciso Jaramillo, is just being funny and ironic.
- John Lundberg: American Indian Slam Poets (HuffingtonPost)
Slam poetry gives Indian American high-schoolers a chance both to explore and express their rich culture and to celebrate the music and rhythms of American Indian languages.
- Feel the pulse - Malaysia Star
Malaysia StarFeel the pulseMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 35 minutes agoThe venue will also play host to a selection of performance arts events such as KL poetry slam by Dram Projects and WordForward, improv and sketches by ...
- The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s Othello doesn’t flinch from the obvious race issue (The Pitch)
The story of a black man tricked into strangling his white wife because she's careless with her hanky, Othello isn't bring-the-kids-and-pack-a-basket fare, but I applaud director Sidonie Garrett and the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for daring it. The sex and murder probably upset nobody the ...
- Sideline Chatter (The Montana Standard)
SEATTLE — They don’t call him Kimbo Slice for nothing. The 6-foot-2, 240-pound mixed martial-arts mauler, it seems, is a 50-50 proposition. “He has an on-off switch,” promoter Gary Shaw told the Los Angeles Times. “If it’s off, he can baby-sit your kids, everything’s great.
- Nonfiction review: Masters of 'Make-Believe' - San Francisco Chronicle
Nonfiction review: Masters of 'Make-Believe'San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 21 minutes ago... where I yearned for the poetry and magic behind the bottom line. "Minders" picks up considerably for me, a child of the '50s and '60s, ...
- Survivor recalls horrific bridge collapse, fifty years later - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunSurvivor recalls horrific bridge collapse, fifty years laterVancouver Sun, Canada - 22 minutes ago"It was a fascinating image I had of him dangling from his umbilical cord of oxygen," said Geddes, who will read from Falsework, his book of poetry about ...
- Poland’s Imperfect Revolution - Foreign Policy
For Westerners who remember the Poland of 1989, when Solidarity triumphed and not only toppled the communist government in Warsaw but set off a chain reaction throughout the region, today’s Poland is a perplexing place. Despite enormous economic ...
- Thinking outside the box - Bangkok Post
Thinking outside the boxBangkok Post, Thailand - 49 minutes ago... a script reading (modelled after poetry readings); something called Seatless Cinema; a live punk band performing during the screening of a silent movie ...
- Text size (Malaysia Today)
The political system has become very corrupt; the crime rate has increased and environmental degradation has continued. Political dynasties proliferate. Few families are controlling the nation's economy – for their own political gains.
- Prose and poetry: Random thoughts on the Gratiaen award - Sunday Times.lk
Prose and poetry: Random thoughts on the Gratiaen awardSunday Times.lk, Sri Lanka - 2 hours agoPoetry had a field day, five collections of poems being nominated. This was worrying and it prompted me to clarify my ideas on writing – How does one assess ...
- The book of revelation - National Post
The book of revelationNational Post, Canada - 20 minutes agoIt's a compelling idea that we seem to have lost. z Anne Simpson is the author of Falling, Canterbury Beach and three books of poetry. ...
- New in Paperback - News & Observer
New in PaperbackNews & Observer, NC - 18 minutes agoAnd a peek at The Raleigh Quarterly, an online forum for essays, poetry, stories and photography. "New England White," by Stephen L. Carter (Vintage). ...
- Young authors find their place with second book publication - Newport News-Times
“Find Your Place: Poetry & Prose from Seashore Family Literacy” is a book published by the participants in the Young Writers Group in Waldport. A book event is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at the Waldport Community Learning Center ...
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