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- Sahais to be honored by state - Daily Freeman Journal
Sahais to be honored by stateDaily Freeman Journal, IA - 4 hours agoPark is the 2004 Poet Laureate from Queens, New York and she has regularly appeared on HBO's Russell Simmons Presents: Def Poetry Jam. ...
- Of bassoons and bestsellers - The Kingston Whig-Standard
Of bassoons and bestsellersThe Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - 3 hours agoAnd I am a great fan of WH Auden's poetry. Q: Is it true you live down the road from [popular mystery writer] Ian Rankin? A: Yes, Ian is my neighbour two ...
- A tribute to Jonathan Williams planned - BlueRidgeNow.com
A tribute to Jonathan Williams plannedBlueRidgeNow.com, NC - 7 minutes agoAmong his many honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry, numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, honorary degrees and the 1977 North ...
- In the beginning, there was the 'Spoken Word' - Tri State Defender
Tri State DefenderIn the beginning, there was the 'Spoken Word'Tri State Defender, TN - 14 minutes ago... after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. The group used poetry to try to break the chains of racism and injustice just as Dr. King did with oratory. ...
- JFK's reclusive daughter returns to limelight to push for Obama - Daily Mail
JFK's reclusive daughter returns to limelight to push for ObamaDaily Mail, UK - 8 hours agoShe has written two books on civil liberties and she has also edited a volume of poetry and an updated version of her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, ...
- An Upstate Saga (The New Yorker)
From the first pages of Ethan Canin’s new novel, “America America” (Random House; $27), we feel in safe hands; the prospects are panoramic, and the prose, in the author’s preferred first-person mode (“It’s easier to write when you have a voice,” he has said), is ruminative, ominous, and . . .
- Five years down the road - Half Moon Bay Review
When Nancy Elliot pays one of her regular visits to the handsome Mexican rosewood cross on Highway 1 just south of Half Moon Bay, she picks up litter and, if it’s spring, tends the cheerful daffodils she planted there. Sometimes she is joined by ...
- Letters to the Editor (Santa Monica Mirror)
As a long-running fan of your “Alert Police Blotter” column, I wonder if perhaps (given its recent contents) it should be renamed: “How Santa Monica Police victimize the local homeless.”
- Johnson’s power and vision endures - Wicked Local Provincetown
Johnson’s power and vision enduresWicked Local Provincetown, MA - 4 hours agoShe loves to write and read when she is not sculpting and still writes poetry, some of which is also included in the catalog. In answer to why she does not ...
- World writers decry censorship at Swedish literary meet - AFP
AFPWorld writers decry censorship at Swedish literary meetAFP - 2 hours agoNasreen, who has written some 30 books of poetry, essays, novels and short stories that often criticise the oppression of women in the name of religion and ...
- Alsace wine growers looking for a cheesy boost (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The wine growers of the Alsace region in northeast France, close to the Rhine river on the border with Germany, are trying to boost sales by promoting the combination of their mostly white wines with cheese.
- A fond farewell after two decades of nature writing (Cape Cod Times)
I wish for you the lyric of the commonplace, the poetry of ordinary things.
- We're just about tolerated: Gay activist - CNN-IBN
We're just about tolerated: Gay activistCNN-IBN, India - Apr 14, 2008His Urdu poetry has won him the grudging respect of the Pakistani literary establishment. He has also recited his poems at the festival in India to honour ...
- A tribute to Grace Paley: a writer who found beauty in the everyday - Somerville News
A tribute to Grace Paley: a writer who found beauty in the everydaySomerville News, MA - 1 hour ago... a National Book Award. She published several volumes of poetry, was elected the first New York State Writer, and the Vermont Poet Laureate in (2003). ...
- Dave Matthews Band - Rolling Stone
Dave Matthews BandRolling Stone - 1 hour agoI always have ambitions to read 30 books but rarely do. Between a bottle of whiskey and a book of poetry, I'll find time to relax.
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