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- Exhibit a testament to city's visual-arts scene (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
The exhibition "Pittsburgh Now" at SPACE, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's largest Downtown gallery, is a tidy showing of works by mature Pittsburgh-area artists.
- Changing world of commencement speakers - San Francisco Gate
On Sunday morning, America's most famous media personality and philanthropist will take the podium at Stanford Stadium to deliver a commencement speech to the class of 2008. Oprah Winfrey's charge is nothing less than to inspire an elite segment of ...
- Thomas Jefferson, Gentleman Scholar (The New York Sun)
The title of Kevin Hayes's new study of Thomas Jefferson, "The Road to Monticello" (Oxford University Press, 752 pages, $34.95), holds out several possibilities. Is it a book about Jefferson's famous house, which he spent much of his life building and rebuilding, and which still stands as a monument to his multifaceted genius? Or could it be a biography covering the first decades of Jefferson's ...
- From bread lines to book awards - Toronto Town Crier Newspapers
Toronto Town Crier NewspapersFrom bread lines to book awardsToronto Town Crier Newspapers, Canada - 39 minutes agoGrimberg would recite poetry and to her surprise one day, a man waiting in line jumped in to help her finish a poem. The hours in line is just one of many ...
- Twombling Free - Evening Standard
Estate, from Cy Twombly's series: Quattro Stagioni (A Painting in Four Parts) Inverno, from Cy Twombly's series: Quattro Stagioni (A Painting in Four Parts) Primavera, from Cy Twombly's series: Quattro Stagioni (A Painting in Four Parts) Crudeness ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (Guyra Argus)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- Sensational Russian Lionhearts! (Pravda)
Holland 1 Russia 3. What an amazing game of football, what a sensational victory for Russian football, for the players of this young, talented, disciplined and determined Russian team and what a shining medal on the chest of Guus Hiddink, the Dutchman who came to Russia to transform a team of spirited young and inexperienced boys into the most valliant lions this game has ever known.
- Poets offer a taste of the medieval - Lakeland Today
Poets offer a taste of the medievalLakeland Today, UK - 21 minutes agoTWO poets with an interest in Medieval England will be joining forces to read their work at the Summer Poetry readings organised by the Wordsworth Trust in ...
- Urdu awards event set for May 15 (Gulf Times)
THE annual Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Awards ceremony and the Aalmi Mushaira (International poetry symposium) will be held at the Doha Sheraton on May 15.
- Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of 'people's poet ... - The Canadian Press
Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of 'people's poet ...The Canadian Press, TORONTO - 4 hours agoScott Griffin, founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and a member of the Friends of the Poet Laureate, hatched the idea for the statue in 2001. ...
- Unique literary genre - Hindu
Unique literary genreHindu, India - 52 minutes agoPerhaps, this prose-poetry form of composition is the only genre that continues to exist in different literary stages through the ages in Kannada literature ...
- Poetic punishment is just for teen vandals - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Here's some poetic justice: Recently 25 teens in Ripton, Vt. -- who had desecrated the hallowed ground of Robert Frost's summer home in the nearby woods last December -- were sentenced to hard poetry by a frosted judge. Their punishment took the form ...
- Obituaries in the news - Guardian Unlimited
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Eugenio Montejo, a Venezuelan poet and essayist who won the 2004 Octavio Paz prize, died Thursday. He was 70. The poet's publishing house said he died of natural causes. Montejo's poetry is known for its rich texture and was ...
- Editorial: Teacher of the Year - Philadelphia Inquirer
Editorial: Teacher of the YearPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 5 hours ago... in the poetry club, the Asian club, the academic club, the theater program, the mentally gifted program, the yearbook and the Latino writers' forum. ...
- Houston teens to compete at Washington poetry slam (Houston Chronicle)
Their inspirations come from all over — observations made while busing tables at an Outback Steakhouse, a family nightmare in Indonesia, a poster from the Vans Warped Tour.
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