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- Poet Spencer Reece to Read at Smith - Smith College Gate
Poet Spencer Reece to Read at SmithSmith College Gate, MA - 4 hours agoReece’s first book, “The Clerk’s Tale,†was chosen by poet Louise Glück to win the 2003 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Poetry Prize. ...
- Anita Lahey: Cape Breton, east of Krakow - Cape Breton
“Last year, I was nervous because it was all of my father’s relatives,†Anita Lahey says about reading her poems in her father’s hometown of Main-a-Dieu. “But the minute it started, it went away becasue I saw everyone was genuinely ...
- Eleanor Wachtel talks with poet and fiction writer Jackie Kay in the ... - CBC News
All of us go through a search for identity. But that personal quest has special resonance for Scottish writer Jackie Kay, and it has been at the root of much of her award-winning work. The daughter of a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, Kay was ...
- Job Search meets Aug. 18 - Hudson Hub-Times
Job Search meets Aug. 18Hudson Hub-Times, Ohio - 25 minutes agoAdmission is free and open to the public daily from 9 am to 9 pm The show incorporates words and images as well as traditional patterns, into colorful work ...
- Publisher's focus on exiles benefits Cuban poet - MiamiHerald.com
Publisher's focus on exiles benefits Cuban poetMiamiHerald.com, FL - 6 hours ago''The poem [Balsero I] asks for an equestrian statue -- often dedicated to the martyrs that die in battle -- for people who lost their lives searching for ...
- Village poet receives six awards (Hot Springs Village Voice)
Marilyn Camden Norton of Hot Springs Village was recently notified that she had received six awards in the 71st Ohio Poetry Day 2008 Contest. The notification came from contest chairman, Bill Reyer, Department of English, at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio.
- Special Summer Camp Helps Girls Recognize Inner and Outer Beauty - PR Newswire (press release)
Special Summer Camp Helps Girls Recognize Inner and Outer BeautyPR Newswire (press release), NY - Aug 20, 2008"Emotional stress has been linked to severe acne episodes, and certain factors in a teen's life -- such as getting ready to go back to school, ...
- Sitti: Soothing the soul (Philstar.com)
She is known as the country’s Bossa Nova queen. Sitti has a gentle and soothing voice that calms and soothes both body and soul. Sitti is beauty and brains combined. She has depth and passion not only for her music but also for her advocacy in education.
- Daniel Radcliffe: I'd Love to Play a Drag Queen (US Weekly)
Forget Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe's dream role? "I think part of me would love to play a drag queen," he says in the October issue of Details. "It would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup." It wouldn't be the first controversial role the 19-year-old star has tackled. Radcliffe - who recently revealed he suffers from a mild brain disorder that sometimes prohibits him from tying...
- Christian Fine Arts Society sponsoring poetry contest - Peoria Journal Star
A $1,000 grand prize will be awarded in a poetry contest sponsored by the Christian Fine Arts Society. Poems of no more than 21 lines can be sent to the society by Aug. 18. In all, 50 prizes valued together at $4,000 are being offered. Send a poem ...
- Cayuga Opens New Book (The Post-Standard)
Don't be surprised to see everyone from teenagers to senior citizens in Cayuga County reading Jeanette Walls' memoir, "The Glass Castle" this fall. The book has been chosen for the 2008 Cayuga Reads program. Public meetings to discuss the book will run throughout October.
- Open wounds - guardian.co.uk
Open woundsguardian.co.uk, UK - 21 minutes agoThe narrator is horrified at both her avarice and her macabre appearance: no longer the beauty made famous by Aspern's love poetry, she resembles a "ghastly ...
- The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of October 6, 2008 (Blogcritics.org)
Anne Rice, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcella Hazan, John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution, the Hunt for Bin Laden... Ahem. I call this piece, "In Celebration of Autumn: New Books, in Poetry and Prose." Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted ManBy Dalton Fury In its endeavor to track down the world’s most dangerous man, the 40 members of America’s ...
- Remember? Larry King was killed? Shot point blank in the head? - Huffingtonpost.com
Read the article and you'll be informed that in fact, Larry was the problem. He was always the problem. And while kids are experimenting with sexuality at younger and younger ages overall, being gay is dangerous. Heterosexual play is fine but, "Kids ...
- Destination: Alaska - Salon
Put aside stories of a freezing, exotic locale full of igloos and kooks in favor of these portraits of the hardscrabble -- and magical -- Northern state. Happenstance and various provocations -- one being that Jack London lied about spit freezing ...
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