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- Writing contest open to students this year - Sun Journal
The New Bern Literary Symposium is accepting entries for its 2009 writing contest, which is open to students this year. "We are inviting students in grades six to 12 to sharpen their wits and pencils and join in the competition," said Phyllis Hoffman ...
- Bookseller blogs on artifacts retrieved from used books - Brookline TAB
Bookseller blogs on artifacts retrieved from used booksBrookline TAB, MA - 5 hours agoYellowed and tattered, the telegram is the centerpiece of the store’s archive of scribbled love notes, family photos and discarded poetry collected from ...
- The passions of John Stuart Mill. - New Yorker
New YorkerThe passions of John Stuart Mill.New Yorker, United States - 1 hour agoThe curriculum had no room for new poetry, and not much for old music. It was nothing but history, math, economics, the classics, and the Benthamite axioms: ...
- Terrell's Tune-Up - New Mexican
Terrell's Tune-UpNew Mexican, NM - 2 hours agoThey were a mysterious explosion of comedy, kitsch, experimental theater, neo-Beat poetry, and pop culture run amok — backed by a supertight band navigating ...
- Prince Cometh - Sixshot.com
Sixshot.comPrince ComethSixshot.com, Switzerland - Sep 8, 2008A veteran of the spoken word circuit, some might recognize him from an appearance on Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam and others will know him from his ...
- Acting as he likes it - Tonight
Acting as he likes itTonight, South Africa - 1 hour agoBy Diane de Beer From a young age, Thami Mbongo lost his heart to poetry. "I fell in love," is how he explains this first brush with performance poetry. ...
- Bookstore melds African-American culture, spiritualism - New Haven Register (subscription)
Bookstore melds African-American culture, spiritualismNew Haven Register (subscription), CT - 20 minutes agoNearly every book carried by the store, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, is by an African-American author and deals with race, religion or both. ...
- Cheeky Biscuit - Melbourne Community Voice
Cheeky BiscuitMelbourne Community Voice, Australia - 14 minutes agoPut simply, Cynara: Poetry in Motion is what happens when a Billie-Jean King look-alike is given a camera and the means to present her fantasy life to a ...
- 'Mummy' takes on 'Dark Knight' in UK - Variety
'Mummy' takes on 'Dark Knight' in UKVariety, CA - 31 minutes ago"It combines technical perfection, true poetry and a lot of risk," glowed El Pais. For La Razon, helmer Andrew Stanton is "unusually gifted for making ...
- The Great Outdoors (The Milan News-Leader)
Camping in Southeast Michigan is no longer only about s'mores and soggy sleeping bags.
- My wife waltzed away with a suave French seducer, reveals Strictly's ... - Daily Mail
His twinkly charm and eccentric sense of humour have made Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman an unlikely TV icon. Now he's telling the story of his life in a rollicking autobiography. In the first of two exclusive extracts, he looked back on his ...
- A Literary Life - Newsweek
The conflicts between mothers and daughters have long interested Doris Lessing. Growing up on a farm in colonial Rhodesia in the 1920s, the Nobel laureate in literature certainly experienced her fair share of such conflicts. She found herself in ...
- Mystic Rumi's poetry has the capacity to uplift - IndiaPost.com
Mystic Rumi's poetry has the capacity to upliftIndiaPost.com, CA - 4 minutes agoLove is a frequent subject of Rumi's poems, descriptions of seeming romantic love is an illusion to the all encompassing pure, divine love. ...
- Nicole Cooley reads her poems - The Hullabaloo Online
Nicole Cooley reads her poemsThe Hullabaloo Online, LA - 4 hours ago"It's odd to me that we can watch disasters and yet do nothing about them," Cooley said in her preamble to next poem, "Breach." Her second book of poetry is ...
- On the scene: Corey Smith returns for stadium concert - The State
On the scene: Corey Smith returns for stadium concertThe State, SC - 2 hours ago... will celebrate his 57th birthday Saturday with the Travelin’ Man Road Show. It begins with poetry and music at 5 pm at Ella’s Cafe, 1117 Augusta Road, ...
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