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- Local poet wins Editors Choice Award - Tehechapi News
Delores Ann Velasco, a local poet from Keene, has won the Editor's Choice Award from the International Library of Poetry and Poetery.com. The poem, Agbayani, appears in a just published poetry book called Collected Whispers. Velasco wrote the poem in ...
- Gary Snyder inspired by nature - Union
Years of physical work, intimate travels across the Pacific West Coast, Alaska and Asia, and a lifelong fascination with language thread the poetry of Gary Snyder. On May 1 - one week before the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet turned 78 - he was ...
- Afghan poet's tomb calls to lovelorn (Toronto Star)
A lady who died for love is perhaps not the best patron saint for romance. I'm just saying. Yet Afghan girls of nubile age keep coming to her austere tomb here and pouring out their hearts, so often yearning for what has been forbidden.
- The Nicotine Vote - New Republic (subscription)
The Nicotine VoteNew Republic (subscription), DC - 1 hour agoVirginia Slims (my undergraduate literary experience confirms that "Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off ...
- The universal god vs. the local god - Somerville Journal
The universal god vs. the local godSomerville Journal, USA - 10 hours agoServices and a dairy/vegetarian Shabbat dinner Friday, June 27, will be followed by a class on Yiddish poetry, taught by Larry Rosenwald. ...
- Books of life - Guardian Unlimited
Books of lifeGuardian Unlimited, UK - 39 minutes agoDoes this, as in the case of the racist, sexist Philip Larkin revealed by Andrew Motion affect the way we read their novels or poetry? Of course it does, ...
- Dnepropetrovsk Machon Bids Farewell to Graduates - Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS
Federation of Jewish Communities of the CISDnepropetrovsk Machon Bids Farewell to GraduatesFederation of Jewish Communities of the CIS, Russia - 13 hours agoThe graduates thanked their teachers, mentors and parents for their guidance over the years and, following a poetry reading, presented them with flowers and ...
- 'The Invention of Scotland' by Hugh Trevor-Roper - Los Angeles Times
In the mid-1700s, Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart, a Scot) failed to take the British crown. Scots, suffering from an identity crisis, started rummaging through manuscripts and oral traditions for a great national epic but couldn't find ...
- Nightlife Calendar: 07/18/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Nightlife Calendar: 07/18/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 2 hours agoMon. open mic, music and poetry third Thurs. of month; 1121 E. Front, TC; 946-4476; www.jacobswell.info. Kilkenny's Irish Public House, live music 9:30 ...
- Who is Barack Obama? - Spiked
Who is Barack Obama?Spiked, UK - 10 hours agoAt Harvard, he was elected editor of the Harvard Law Review, the first person of any African-American heritage to reach that prestigious position. ...
- IP-Art comes back with added colour - Evening Star
IP-ART 2008 is to be launched tomorrow heralding a fortnight of colourful arts and cultural events in Ipswich. A special bus, painted up with festival colours, will launch the arts fortnight on the Cornhill at 4pm tomorrow and will be greeted by ...
- Literary luminaries attend unveiling of statue of ’people’s poet ... - Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal
TORONTO - Eurithe Purdy sat at the feet of her late husband, renowned poet Al Purdy, on Tuesday as a statue of him was unveiled at Queen’s Park. "His pose to me looks so natural, as if he could almost walk away from where he’s reclining," she ...
- News & Notes - Modesto Bee
1 Ooh and ahh at the aerial stunts at the 14th annual Modesto Airport Appreciation Day with aerobatic performances, family activities and more. Today, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Modesto Airport, 700 Tioga Drive. $5 adults, free for children 12 and younger. 968 ...
- Theater review: Freakshow - Pegasus News
Theater review: FreakshowPegasus News, TX - 1 hour agoShe says, "The play is a unique blend of beauty, poetry, and raw animalism. I am fascinated to explore Kreitzer's world where the profane and the divine ...
- Poetry champ performs for Moss Point students - The Mississippi Press - gulflive.com
Poetry champ performs for Moss Point studentsThe Mississippi Press - gulflive.com, MS - 5 hours ago... of his short poetry addressed to an ex-girlfriend in the midst of commentary about the need for political change. Ott said he writes one poem every day, ...Stories abound prior to state track meet SunHerald.comall 2 news articles
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