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- Urbanscapes Hits Town - RedOrbit
Urbanscapes Hits TownRedOrbit, TX - 3 hours agoThere's Rather Peculiar Theatre, a group that will be doing improvised sketches, and KL Poetry Slam will showcase the variety of prose and limericks our ...
- In defence of the mother tongue - Tonight
In defence of the mother tongueTonight, South Africa - 8 hours agoTell me about Raisibe - is there a specific theme that the poetry follows? I wrote Raisibe when I was 17 and 18, a time when I was discovering the ...
- Local authors attend book-signing in Roswell (Revue & News)
Six local authors will gather May 17 to sign their books and meet the public.
- Captain’s knock - Indian Express
Politics is the last resort of the ageing actor. For Vijayakanth, the Jackie Chan of Tamil cinema, there is also the pancake factor. His dark complexion and pudgy features have earned him the title of ‘Black MGR’, or Karupu MGR, the once and ...
- Books: Welcome to the Club - Newsweek
Books: Welcome to the ClubNewsweek - 28 minutes ago... even food writing (the Library has also just published an anthology of that), as often as in conventional novels, stories, poetry and plays. ...
- 'Voice of my ancestors' guided N. Scott Momaday, keynote speaker ... - Dallas Morning News
'Voice of my ancestors' guided N. Scott Momaday, keynote speaker ...Dallas Morning News, TX - 50 minutes ago"I regard poetry as the highest form of literature," he says, "the best possible way of expressing something in words. There is no waste at all in the ...
- Harmony Run arrives on Emerald Coast - NW Florida Daily News
The World Harmony Run, a global torch relay that promotes international friendship and understanding, is coming to Okaloosa County this week as part of a journey through all 50 states. Beginning in Fort Walton Beach, the runners will stop by Elliott ...
- Plus: Slideshow and entry details for Herald/Glasgow University McCash Scots Poetry Competition (The Herald)
His bizarre Scottish "peace mission" generated more conspiracy theories than the killing of John F Kennedy. Now the story of Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, and his wartime appearance in Renfrewshire has sparked yet another mystery.
- Barbara Gowdy, Rachel Zolf win Ontario's Trillium Book Awards - Canada East
TORONTO - Authors Barbara Gowdy and Rachel Zolf were named winners Thursday of the 21st annual Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's top literary prize. Gowdy won for her novel "Helpless" (HarperCollins) while Zolf won the poetry award for her collection ...
- Grape escapes (Adelaide Now)
AN eclectic guide to the best wineland accommodation in Australia and New Zealand.
- Book review: Finding the deeper Albert Camus in his 'Notebooks, 1951-1959' (International Herald Tribune)
Beneath the author's ideological quarrels is a deeper unhappiness with the critical bent of the Paris intelligentsia.
- Refuting God's Crucible - Brussels Journal
Refuting God's CrucibleBrussels Journal, Belgium - 58 minutes agoI can count endless amounts of books on the dark sides of European colonialism, some of them no doubt justified, yet comparatively few good books have been ...
- Kimya Dawson Plays Harlem Tonight, Speaks About Songs and Stuff - Nypress.com
A couple weeks ago singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson played at the Music Hall of Williamsburg . During the show, I stepped outside with my friend as a gaggle of 17-year-old kids came out to smoke. We had seen them earlier when a drunken hula-hooping ...
- Elsie von Maur, driving force of Quad-City symphony, dies at 106 (Quad-City Times)
The Quad-City Symphony Orchestra used to practice on Sunday afternoons in Davenport’s Masonic Temple, sometimes only to a one-person audience of Elsie von Maur.
- Deep-felt tales of nature, a work of transformation (Toronto Star)
In one poem in Spirit Engine , John Donlan refers to an area of wetlands as "our vulnerable cathedral." This reverence for the natural world, which is the bedrock of the collection as a whole, also permeates Louise Bernice Halfe's The Crooked Good , though her way of expressing it is different.
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