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- Yard Dogs hop the train to Asbury Lanes (Asbury Park Press)
The Yard Dogs Road Show is a modern-day living patchwork of carnival-inspired road show entertainment. Inspired by American road culture of the 1800s, show performances are complete with hobo poetry, cabaret, vaudeville and rock 'n' roll.
- Editorial: The legacy of Solzhenitsyn - Daily Gazette
The death of the famed Russian author and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn Sunday won’t receive the kind of attention it would have had it happened at the height of the Cold War, but it certainly is worth noting. There was a 19th century ...
- Teachers get refresher on creativity at workshop - Spartanburg Herald-Journal
A group of 21 teachers is participating in the college’s Creativity Institute this week, which is funded by the South Carolina Department of Education. This is the third session the college has organized in three years, and its long waiting list is ...
- Enrique Iglesias comes full circle - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Enrique Iglesias comes full circleThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 1 hour ago"It's nice to see how people have fallen in love with my songs. When you fall in love for the first time, some people write letters or poems. I wrote songs. ...
- The world's oldest jokes revealed by university research - Daily Telegraph
Researchers found examples of double-entendres buried in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral Photo: SAM FURLONG / SWNS They found the wry observation in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of ...
- Portland rose garden attracts international travelers (Greater Houston Weekly)
Portland, Oregon is known as the city of roses but it could also be known as the city of gardens. We visited the International Rose Test Garden, the oldest garden of its kind in the United States and it is free.
- The Poet as Everyman - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
The Poet as EverymanChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 12 hours agoMr. Schug, who has published four collections of poetry, is also the recycling and deliveries coordinator at the College of St. Benedict, in St. Cloud, ...
- Budding writers centre stage at Literary Lapses - Orillia Packet & Times
Budding writers centre stage at Literary LapsesOrillia Packet & Times, Canada - 2 hours agoThere will also be a performance by the Garage Door Players of bits from last winter's hilarious production, "The Gospel According to Life," along with some ...
- 'Wire' an amazing feat of balance - Baltimore Sun
'Wire' an amazing feat of balanceBaltimore Sun, United States - 52 minutes agoMany New Yorkers thought the World Trade Center too stark, even arrogant; Petit revealed its capacity for poetry. And the director of Man on Wire, ...
- Community News & Notes - Falls Church News Press
Community News & NotesFalls Church News Press, VA - 7 hours ago"Huggings," a story about a meeting of two people united by love, told through dance, music and poetry, will be performed as part of the 11th Festival of ...
- June L. Emanuel - Mankato Free Press
Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 30, 2008, at Christ The King Lutheran Church. Visitation will be 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday at Woodland Hills Funeral Home and will continue 1 hour before services at the church. Interment ...
- Pak poet Ahmed Faraz dies at 77 - Times of India
MUMBAI: The Urdu feminist writer Ismat Chughtai once recalled meeting a young poet in Moscow. "He isn't the usual betel-chewing, kurta-pyjama-clad poet. He is smartly dressed and can dance with the girls," she remarked. Non-conformist in his views ...
- Chris Matthews, former supervisor who owned Poet and Patriot pub, dead ... - Santa Cruz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ -- Chris Matthews, a former county supervisor for the Pajaro Valley who founded the landmark Poet and Patriot Irish Pub, died Saturday after a bout with lung cancer. He was 61. The passionately Irish playwright and social justice activist ...
- Events Calendar - Independent Press
Independent PressEvents CalendarIndependent Press, NJ - 3 hours agoMs. Ryan has won poetry prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. ...
- Cantus firmus - The Christian Century
Cantus firmusThe Christian Century - 46 minutes agoIn the process, I came across this poem written by my friend Mark Perlberg almost 40 years ago, and it repossessed me. In Letters and Papers from Prison, ...
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