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- Workshop gives students tools to use power of words - The Olympian
Workshop gives students tools to use power of wordsThe Olympian, WA - 5 hours agoThe weeklong workshop uses poetry to teach students to be leaders. Students didn't let one another get away with a quick recitation of their poems. ...
- Tagore house to Twenty20, Rabindra Jayanti revelry sweeps Kolkata (Calcutta News)
Kolkatans made it a point to celebrate their 'Bengaliness' Thursday. They may love their discos and lap up Bollywood-Hollywood through the year, but on 'Pochishe Boishakh' only one name ruled their hearts - the famous bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore, whose 147th birth anniversary it was.
- Faber to revive classics with 'print on demand' (Daily Telegraph)
A wealth of lost literary classics, many of them out of print for decades, are to receive a new lease of life.
- Slanted Script - San Diego Reader
Slanted ScriptSan Diego Reader, CA - 3 hours agoShe plays piano and adores poetry and art; he raises prize bulls in the Napa Valley and is numb to culture. Though their differences are obvious, ...
- Arts calendar for 7/6-7/12/08 (The MetroWest Daily News)
Arts and entertainment calendar for Sunday, July 6, through Saturday, July 12
- Kid Rock to ride wave of success into Detroit shows - DetNews.com
Kid Rock to ride wave of success into Detroit showsDetNews.com, MI - 6 hours agoHey, it may not be poetry, but it works. And as for the question of if the song was written for any one girl in particular, Rock isn't giving up the goods. ...
- Show your support. - Huffingtonpost.com
Hot on the heels of California's legalizing of gay marriage comes a new social study on healthy marriages. The New York Times reports that "same-sex couples have a great deal to teach everyone else about marriage and relationships." After Vermont ...
- Worth the Waits - Tulsa World
Worth the WaitsTulsa World, OK - 15 hours agoHe barked out poetry to tunes like "Lucinda," "November," "Black Market Baby," "Innocent When You Dream," "Cemetery Polka," "Come on Up to the House," "Rain ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search - NWI.com
BOSTON - Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is ...
- Interfaith service remembers children - Greenwich Post
Interfaith service remembers childrenGreenwich Post, CT - 3 hours agoFor example, parents may relate anecdotes about children being honored, read poetry, play or sing songs with special meaning, or read stories they had hoped ...
- New in Paperback - News & Observer
New in PaperbackNews & Observer, NC - 18 minutes agoAnd a peek at The Raleigh Quarterly, an online forum for essays, poetry, stories and photography. "New England White," by Stephen L. Carter (Vintage). ...
- Persian music's super star - Vancouver Sun
Persian music, that is, Iranian music, probably has no more famous exponent than Mohammed Reza Shajarian. "They were hailed with three standing ovations - one before they'd performed a note," said the Washington Post, whereas the Globe & Mail ...
- Utah Phillips: radical US folksinger and pacifist - Times Online
Utah Phillips was an American folk singer, story-teller and political activist of the old school who kept alive the freewheeling hobo spirit of Woody Guthrie. He was born Bruce Duncan Phillips in 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were both labour ...
- Books notes (Asheville Citizen-Times)
The Writers' Workshop of Asheville is offering a series of summer writing classes.
- £1,000 poetry prize (icWales)
WRITERS from across South Wales are being urged to enter the UK’s biggest poetry competition.
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