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- Beijing where it sizzles (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
ONE IMPRESSION OF Beijing is that it’s forbidding. Its structures are gray hulking monoliths, particularly the government buildings. And its people look grim-faced and more robust than those in Taipei and Shanghai, for instance.
- Talks/Authors (Palo Alto Weekly)
Hilton Obenzinger on Protest from Vietnam to Iraq A conversation with Hilton Obenzinger, author of "Busy Dying," "Running Through Fire," "American Palestine" and other works of poetry, fiction, history and criticism; associate director, Stanford program in rriting and rhetoric.
- How a poetry-enhancing technique boosts memory - Newindpress
How a poetry-enhancing technique boosts memoryNewindpress, India - 5 hours ago“In our experiments, concepts presented early in a poem (or prose passage) were more available when alliterative sounds overlapped between lines than when ...
- The Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition 2008 - Times Online
Times OnlineThe Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition 2008Times Online, UK - 13 hours agoMick Imlah, Poetry Editor of the TLS, and Alice Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America and formerly Poetry Editor of the New Yorker, ...
- Bemis festival celebrates creativity in all forms this weekend (Southwest Iowa News)
OMAHA - The Bemis08: Creativity Festival will be a festival unlike anything in the area. Featuring three days of all things creative, tonight through Saturday, the festival will be held inside and outside the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 12th and Leavenworth streets, Omaha.
- Bibliofiles: Plenty of activity for poetry lovers this week (The Kansas City Star)
A first-glance look at this week’s literary calendar reveals only a few events, but glances can be deceiving. Quite a few Kansas City poets, actually, will be stepping up to the podium in the next few days.
- chicky chappy - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukchicky chappyguardian.co.uk, UK - 32 minutes agoHave you read Pablo Neruda's love poetry? It's more than enough to reduce your average Andy McNabb reader to tears. Have you heard How Can You Mend A Broken ...
- Montreal poet Asa Boxer wins the CAA Award for his debut book, The ... - CBC News
Asa Boxer won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry last month for his first collection, The Mechanical Bird (Véhicule Press). An early draft of one of the poem suites, “The Workshop,” claimed first prize in the 2004 CBC Literary ...
- Winnebago County Fair kicks off Tuesday - Appleton Post Crescent
Winnebago County Fair kicks off TuesdayAppleton Post Crescent, USA - 6 hours agoThose include everything from electricity and cucumbers to poetry and music. In addition, junior fair exhibitors also have a bounty of animals. ...
- Check (my manuscript), please: At Bread Loaf, young writers wait on ... - Grand Forks Herald
RIPTON, Vt. Students Gerald Maa, 27, center, of Washington, D.C., and Christian Anton Gerard, 26, right, of Norfolk, Va., refill food trays in the buffet line as lunch is served during the Breadloaf Writers Conference in Ripton, Vt., Tuesday, Aug. 19 ...
- Have racy ads finally crossed the line? (WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
Ad agencies have found ways to pair just about everything with sex.
- Orange County Calendar - Los Angeles Times
Book signing: Author of "The Devil Wears Prada," Laura Weisberger discusses and signs her new book, "Chasing Harry Winston." Reservation recommended. 7 p.m. Free. Newport Beach Central Library, 1000 Avocado Ave. (949) 548-2411 or www.city.newport ...
- More than a year since father’s death - La Crosse Tribune
It’s been more than a year since my father, Dale Wallin, was killed by a hit and run driver at the intersection of Rose and Logan streets. There are still no leads. The La Crosse Police Department has done as much as it can, but there has not been ...
- Random Urban Static: Spoken Word Poetry Power - Blackvoices
Random Urban Static: Spoken Word Poetry PowerBlackvoices - 7 hours agoThe most talented spoken word artists, or "rhymecologists," proffer clever, vocabulary acrobatics as observations about the way we live in the world. ...
- Poetic Gift To 'Olympic's Heroes - Oneindia
OneindiaPoetic Gift To 'Olympic's HeroesOneindia, India - 4 hours agoSharing the same turf with Hockey and Poetry in his book 'Poetic Hockey', which has a collection of 86 poems, Shukla this time eulogised the charisma of the ...
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