Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet - London Review of Books (subscription)
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan SonnetLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 3 hours agoThe book contains 154 poems, all except two made up of 14 lines; with the exception of one poem, each of these lines has ten syllables and five iambic feet. ...
- Literary award goes to Internet blogger (The Washington Times)
BALTIMORE (AP) — A 22-year-old English major at Washington College who has used new media to reflect on her experiences with old-fashioned printing yesterday won one of the county's largest undergraduate literary awards.
- Gongs galore as the Queen honours the great and good - Scotsman
Gongs galore as the Queen honours the great and goodScotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoHis first collection of poetry was Nil Nil, published in 1993, and his latest collection was Landing Light, published in 2003. Another book of his poems is ...
- Fairfax Woman Named Nation's Poet Laureate (KRXI-TV Reno)
FAIRFAX, Calif. -- Kay Ryan, a 62-year-old Fairfax resident, was appointed today by the Library of Congress as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.
- Documentary: "Global Moms Iran" takes us behind the headlines, into ... - Payvand Iran News
THE FILM: Global Moms Iran (working title) took filmmaker Justine Shapiro, a Jewish American mom, and her six-year-old son Mateo to Iran. Before she became a mom, Justine's work as a documentary filmmaker and as host of GlobeTrekker , an ...
- Amy Winehouse song used in Cambridge exam - News.com.au
AS spoken verse, it may scan a little awkwardly, and the rhymes could be considered somewhat laboured. But Amy Winehouse might argue her lyrics were never intended to be scrutinised by the poetry brains of Cambridge University. To the surprise of ...
- A Diary Found, And a World Recovered - Forward
A Diary Found, And a World RecoveredForward, NY - 10 hours agoThe poetry records his memories from Eastern Europe and his transition to life in Ireland. Gilman, a published writer herself, received the journal in the ...
- Band performs Gaelic Dylan songs - BBC News
BBC NewsBand performs Gaelic Dylan songsBBC News, UK - 2 hours agoHe has published many poetry collections in both Scottish and Irish Gaelic, and has worked as a writing fellow at Sabhal Mor Ostaig in Skye and at ...
- It's Brecht-bashing season once again. Will this sorry bunch of ... - Guardian Unlimited
It's strange how forgiving we are of artists who were involved with Hitler's Third Reich. In 1933, Goebbels appointed the composer Richard Strauss - whose dreamily decadent operas Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier remain central to any ...
- Saying Goodbye After All These Years - TheDay
Saying Goodbye After All These YearsTheDay, CT - 1 hour agoHe is passionate about the English language and shares with his students his love for literature, in particular American literature, and poetry. ...
- How To Build A Creative City - Newsweek
How To Build A Creative CityNewsweek - 6 hours agoMany had stopped over in the great European capitals, where they had read the visionary poetry of Rimbaud, seen the work of the impressionists and debated ...
- Historian and history maker - Guardian Unlimited
When a friend dies, a part of you dies too. When Bronislaw Geremek was killed in a car accident on Sunday, a part of Europe was lost as well. I remember him once turning to me in a corridor of the Polish parliament, which he had helped to make again ...
- Kenya: Putting On the Kwani Lit Fest - AllAfrica.com
Kenya: Putting On the Kwani Lit FestAllAfrica.com, Washington - 31 minutes agoA whole 360 publishing houses specialising in science, poetry, fiction, turn out hundreds of wonderfully designed, immaculately executed books for a 100% ...
- Nature's Ecstasy: Joan Mitchell on Paper and Canvas - New York Sun
Spring and summer provide us with some of the headiest and most ephemeral experiences in the garden. While describing the suddenness and intensity with which our Yoshino cherry tree blossomed a full, feathery white and then, like snowfall, shed its ...
- Living Colour drummer Will Calhoun offers clinic at Portman’s - Connect Savannah.com
Connect Savannah.comLiving Colour drummer Will Calhoun offers clinic at Portman’sConnect Savannah.com, GA - 1 hour agoHe recently wrapped four shows at NYC’s Performance Space 122 that found Calhoun integrating his loves of poetry, sound and photography into a mixed-media ...
|
|
Get better Mortgage Rates today and save!
Get your Online Degrees today!
|