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- Celebrities abroad - Today's Zaman
Celebrities abroadToday's Zaman, Turkey - 3 hours agoWe have always told other people how Hikmet promoted Turkish poetry and the country in the world. These favorable references imply that a person should do ...
- Dolphins rookie makes one giant leap (Miami Herald)
Look at the physique on Dolphins' sixth-round draft pick Donald Thomas -- short, massive neck; chest deeper than John Donne's poetry; Exxon-profit-sized upper arms -- and you would be excused for thinking Thomas (6-3, 303 pounds) must be a football player.
- Memorable speech: An interview with David Yezzi - Enter Stage Right
David Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion and a well-known poet whose published collections include The Hidden Model and Sad Is Eros. His essays have appeared at Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New York ...
- Music Review: Yusa - Haiku (Blogcritics.org)
Yusa's new CD "Hiaku"; yet another argument for ending the embargo against Cuba. Ever since Ry Cooder broke the rules and went to Cuba to record the first Buena Vista Social Club disc, here has been a resurgence of interest in that country's music. He ended up having to pay some sort of astronomical fine as a result of that first visit and was only able to return for his second go round because ...
- Dad 'floored' by escape - Evansville Courier & Press (subscription)
Dad 'floored' by escapeEvansville Courier & Press (subscription), IN - 15 hours agoHe said he wanted to be a writer and that he had been doing some poetry. He said he was getting ready to take some college classes. ...
- 0418 city festivals (Provo Daily Herald)
Hardly a day will go by this summer without some sort of celebration in a Utah Valley city. Beginning May 30 with Pony Express Days in Eagle Mountain and ending with Onion Days in Payson on Labor Day, there's almost non-stop partying all summer long. As soon as one city's celebration ends, another's is beginning.
- China cracks down on earthquake rumors (Los Angeles Times)
Hearsay has vexed Chinese leaders throughout history. The disaster has set off a new round. Almost as soon as the initial aftershocks stopped reverberating last week, the rumors began. Some say that frogs, insects and other animals fled shortly before the earth shook. Others insist that water mysteriously drained from ponds, or that Beijing knew the massive earthquake would strike but chose ...
- Indian Culture and Social Life - NewsBlaze
Indian Culture and Social LifeNewsBlaze, CA - 23 minutes agoAs a result Greek and Indian cultures influenced each other especially in the war, philosophy, poetry, sculpture, architecture, theatre and literature etc. ...
- Words of Youth - Loudoun Connection
Words of YouthLoudoun Connection, VA - 1 hour agoA Poetry Slam was scheduled for this month but has been pushed back until the fall so that the students can organize it better and get more poets to come. ...
- Gary Snyder wins $100,000 poetry prize - NWITimes.com
NEW YORK - Gary Snyder, a poet known for his verse about nature and spirituality and a former member of the beat movement along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Chicago-based ...
- The Mistress of Spices - Indolink
I, for one, will never again take my spices for granted, thanks to Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's wondrous new novel "The Mistress of Spices." I now know that the dry red chili "was born of Agni, god of Fire to bring taste to this bland world," and "is ...
- BLEMF to stage an unearthed treasure, wealth of early music riches - The Herald-Times (subscription)
The Herald-Times (subscription)BLEMF to stage an unearthed treasure, wealth of early music richesThe Herald-Times (subscription), IN - 1 hour agoWe need to understand the ideals of the period, when poetry and theater and artwork and music were meant to be integrated. That’s what we’ve been working ...
- Eighth-graders create Holocaust museum - Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette
Eighth-graders create Holocaust museumUrbana/Champaign News-Gazette, IL - 3 hours ago"It was sad. It kind of made you fearful that this actually existed in the world. "Because we did see this, when we're old, if this could possibly ever ...
- Raising Ezra - Boise Weekly
Raising EzraBoise Weekly, USA - 26 minutes agoPound set out to change not only the world of poetry, but the world of banking and finance as well. His plan to eliminate debt by taking control of credit ...
- FESTIVAL TIME: At East Preston - Shoreham Today
FESTIVAL TIME: At East PrestonShoreham Today, UK - 7 hours ago7.30pm, Conservative Hall, Sea Road, Poetry and Pints evening. 9.45-11.15am, Village Hall, La Rhonda Dance Studio open keep fit class. 2-4pm, Village Hall, ...
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