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- Maui poets to compete in National Poetry Slam - KHNL News 8
WAILUKU, Maui (KHNL) - For the first time in three years, a team of poets from Maui will compete in the National Poetry Slam in Madison, Wisconsin. Maui SLAM! is sending four of Hawaii's top spoken-word poets to compete in the annual championship ...
- Gift of words: Festival of the Written Arts (Coast Reporter)
The last line that author Lorna Goodison read aloud from her book, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People, went something like this: “My mother dipped her finger in sugar and ran it around my mouth when I was born to give me the gift of words.”
- Classic Poetry for Modern Life - The Epoch Times
Classic Poetry for Modern LifeThe Epoch Times, NY - 27 minutes agoAs the second stanza describes, we must free ourselves from the inner “passions” that would, if unleashed, turn our freedom into chaos. ...
- Michael Rosen’s favourite children’s books - Socialist Worker
Adults become attached to children’s books in three overlapping ways – as memories of when they were children, as moments when reading books with children in their care and as pleasurable reads in themselves. So, when we come to recommend ...
- Author with Tacoma connection shares her love of the Amish - Tacoma Weekly
Author with Tacoma connection shares her love of the AmishTacoma Weekly, WA - 11 hours agoIn her teen years she wrote skits for her church teen group to perform. In 1980, she took a course in writing for children and teenagers, and became serious ...
- The Messenger of Athens, By Anne Zouroudi - Independent
The Messenger of Athens, By Anne ZouroudiIndependent, UK - 40 minutes agoIn the 1920s FantĂ´mas novels a "battered" body would be likely to be served up with chips; in any of Chandler's stories the plot rests on poetry. ...
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, August 14th - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Thursday, August 14thOpEdNews, PA - 8 minutes agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Literary Inspiration on the Streets of DC - Washington Post
Literary Inspiration on the Streets of DCWashington Post, United States - 1 hour agoAs for tomorrow's talent, check out the poetry scene at Ebenezers Coffeehouse. Who knows? You might be listening to the next Sterling A. Brown, ...
- Sorouh honoured to support 2008 Liwa Dates Festival (AME Info)
Organisers of the fourth Liwa Dates Festival, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and sponsored by Sorouh Real Estate PJSC, proclaimed the event a huge success today, presenting an award of appreciation to Sorouh at a special ceremony in Liwa City in the Emirates Western Region.
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Religions should not be allowed to make ghettos - The Independent
I cannot stand Cristina Odone, and the feeling is mutual. We haven't spoken for years, since the week when, as deputy editor of the New Statesman, she commissioned a hatchet profile on me by a female journalist (of course), who had met me once on a ...
- Award entries overflow with a rural theme (Central Western Daily)
THERE’S something about the country which has been inspiring the Central West’s wordsmiths over the past few months.
- THE DEVIL DANCES ON STAGE by Peter Burdon - Sydney Star Observer
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea scored a rare triumph at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe by winning every award it could, including a gig in New York. Its co-creator Suzanne Andrade said she was not just pleased with the production’s success ...
- Winners of William Rockhill Nelson Awards - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Winners of William Rockhill Nelson AwardsSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 11 hours agoWalter Bargen’s West of West and John Gallaher’s The Little Book of Guesses were poetry finalists, and Michael L. Johnson’s Hunger for the Wild and R. Alton ...
- POETRY READINGS AID GALWAY'S SPIRIT CENTRE - Indymedia Ireland
Friday, July 4th at 1pm sharp is the date and time of a lunchtime reading, organised by the Western Writers’ Centre in support of Galway’s The Spirit Centre. The readings, which will take place at the Spirit centre at 34 Nuns Island, Galway, is ...
- My life with Leonard - Jewish Theatre
My life with LeonardJewish Theatre, Israel - 3 hours agoHe's enjoying his new book of poetry and his artwork. He's enjoying being a grandfather and having a close relationship with his children. ...
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