Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- London bishop to investigate gay church ceremony (AP via Yahoo! News)
The bishop of London said Sunday he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines.
- Radio free you - Meganmcardle.theatlantic.com
I accidentally wandered into an open mike night yesterday. You can be sure that I wandered back out just as fast as my little feet could carry me, but not before witnessing the girl on the stage finishing her horrendous poem, and the audience ...
- Jazzfest review: Ottawa Composers Collective - Ottawa Citizen
Jazzfest review: Ottawa Composers CollectiveOttawa Citizen, Canada - Jun 28, 2008... poetry, bits of singing - some in the style of Bjork, some with echoes of Irish folk music - passages of soloing, duo and trio playing, moments of dark ...
- Long chair transforms into lounge - Las Vegas Review - Journal
Long chair transforms into loungeLas Vegas Review - Journal, NV - 10 hours ago... returning the chaises to be made firmer and less comfortable because instead of writing poetry when they reclined, they actually fell asleep instead! ...
- New Novel Asks Whom Do You Love? Whom Do You Bomb? - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Third World is full of grist for the pulp mill. Adam Kellas is a reporter who wants to sell out, write a rollicking thriller that will earn him scads of cash and put his embossed name on a cover in gold lettering 2 inches high. And though he ...
- Mehrgan Cultural Foundation: Agents of Change through Community-Based ... - Payvand Iran News
Founded in 1994, Mehrgan Cultural Foundation was conceived by Hassan and Faezeh Firouzi in San Diego, California as a non-political, non-religious, and non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Iranian heritage. This aim is most notably achieved ...
- Robert Greacen: Ulster poet of considerable gifts (Independent)
In the years just before and after the Second World War, the north of Ireland was thought of, if at all, as a province culturally in the doldrums and religiously on the boil. "There was an almost complete blank in poetic utterance and in drama," Robert Greacen wrote. For an aspiring poet at the time in Belfast, he went on (in an article for the magazine Rann), few local literary exemplars ...
- Cambridge students examined on Amy Winehouse song (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - They might not be Shakespeare or Wordsworth but lyrics by soul singer Amy Winehouse have been included in a Cambridge University literature exam for the first time.
- Let's give the past a future - Globe and Mail
Let's give the past a futureGlobe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours agoSo does history have a Sugar Daddy with Cundill, in similar fashion to the way industrialist Scott Griffin has championed poetry? ...
- Melody in diversity: Jazz a Carthage - eJazzNews
Melody in diversity: Jazz a CarthageeJazzNews, Canada - 28 minutes agoHe led a very cohesive sextet that included the front-line horns of Black Rock Coalition trumpeter Lewis ‘Flip’ Barnes, and alto saxophonist Robert Brown, ...
- Literary Prize Adds a Pleasing Epilogue to College Career (Washington Post)
The elation of winning one of the nation's largest literary prizes for undergraduate students perhaps can be summed up best by the winner, Emma Sovich, 22, who described the moment in a breathless post-award interview.
- Vito Schnabel Cultivates a Community - New York Sun
New York SunVito Schnabel Cultivates a CommunityNew York Sun, United States - 18 minutes ago(Mr. Ricard has published several volumes of poetry.) "There's a lifetime behind his work," Mr. Schnabel said. "He's a grown-up. ...
- He found his passion by accident, but Racine library’s teen patrons benefit (The Journal Times)
RACINE — After graduating from Carthage College last spring, Nick Demske went west. He left his home, his girlfriend, his family, and went to the National Outdoor Leadership School for a semester. He climbed rocks in Colorado, canyoneered and kayaked in Utah and mountaineered in Wyoming.
- Poet laureate of American hymns dies at 89 (West Salem Coulee News)
ST. LOUIS — It wasn’t until the Rev. Jaroslav Vajda was nearly 50 that he began to pursue the craft that would leave his name etched in history. Or at least the hymnal.
- Kathy Sheppard - Greenville News
Kathy SheppardGreenville News, SC - 28 minutes agoThe girl who made a "D" in high school English enjoyed literature to an extent -- especially poetry -- but dyslexia severely limited her as a writer. ...
|
|
Mortgage Quotes
Second Mortgages
December 2007 Mortgage News
|