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- When Experience and Disaster Collide - New York Times Blogs
Iowans have taken to calling this week’s devastating flooding “ our Katrina .†Katrina does come to mind when you look at these photos of Cedar Rapids engulfed by the Cedar River . But Iowa is lucky to have been spared a Katrina-sized death ...
- Event Calendar this week - Denver Post
Event Calendar this weekDenver Post, CO - 4 hours agoPoetry slam Denver poet laureate, Cafe Nuba and Let Us Rise celebrate lyrical activism at Vision Slam in Five Points, with 15 of Colorado's most visionary ...
- Nepal's 'last king' to lose crown (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Seven years after most of Nepal's royal family were massacred by a drunken prince, the country's Maoists look set to scrap the Himalayan monarchy, turning the page on 240 years of history.
- WSUM: "Live From Oakhill" and the "Raveathon" - Dane101
WSUM: "Live From Oakhill" and the "Raveathon"Dane101, WI - 22 hours agoThis program will be structured as an open mic style reading; the members of this writing class will be reading their poetry and spoken word pieces, ...
- ART GALLERIES, MUSEUMS (The Wichita Eagle)
Today Final Friday, gallery crawl, 5-7 p.m., Wichita Center for the Arts, 9112 E. Central (Student-Faculty Exhibition reception); 5-8 p.m. at Larksfield Place Gallery, 7373 E. 29th St. North ("Young Guns," Part II reception); 5-8 p.m. at Kansas African American Museum, 601 N. Water (Pat Patterson/Mitchell Pearson, music by Sterling Gray); 5-8 p.m. at Garden Reflections, 3700 E. ...
- Creativity draws crowd at Art Fest - Marion Star
Creativity draws crowd at Art FestMarion Star, OH - 1 hour agoPoetry students from Mary Hardgrove's language art classes at Harding read their poems for an audience in the media center. Students are selling a book with ...
- What Makes a Singer “Good?†- New York Times Blogs
What Makes a Singer “Good?â€New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- A legend in his own lunchtime - Irish Times
A legend in his own lunchtimeIrish Times, Ireland - 52 minutes ago(He always says "trying", but has several books of poetry and stories under his belt - you can find them in the National Library, under "John McNamee born ...Colum McCann's top 10 novels on poets guardian.co.ukall 3 news articles
- AP Interview: Afghan journalist demands justice after death ... - International Herald Tribune
AP Interview: Afghan journalist demands justice after death ...International Herald Tribune, France - 3 hours agoHe tries to keep up his spirits in his lonely cell by singing and reciting Persian poetry. He says he is healthy and well-treated and allowed outside his ...
- Books on religion - Dallas Morning News
Books on religionDallas Morning News, TX - 23 minutes agoThis collection of essays by 14 contemporary poets grapples with the magnificent poetry of the Book of Psalms as it speaks to the modern reader. ...
- Can Game Theory save our at-risk kids? - San Francisco Gate
Over wonton soup, Patricia Johnson confessed she spent the entire day watching "Friday Night Lights" on DVD. She was trying to beat a flu, and the 2006 television show -- centered on a small-town football coach, high school athletes, and their ...
- Abu Dhabi launches dates festival (Middle East Online)
Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage launches ‘Mazayin Al Ratb Festival’.
- 2b or not 2b: David Crystal on why texting is good for language (Guardian Unlimited)
Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spelling
- Chicago poet translates sorrow of immigrants into his works - Des Moines Register
Poet Li-Young Lee recently had an eye-opening experience. The acclaimed poet from Chicago said he suddenly came to a definition of poetry. "Meaningful coincidences in language," he said. "Language itself is a mediator, a medium, between our concepts ...
- His Old Friends, Loyal to the End - Buzzle
Canada.comHis Old Friends, Loyal to the EndBuzzle, CA - 1 hour agoApart from Dostoyevsky, he says, the greatest literature is Serbian epic poetry, especially when recited with accompaniment by the whining, single-stringed ...Video: EU hails Karadzic arrest france24englishall 2,979 news articles
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