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- Kaiser Center may see new life again - Tri Valley Herald
Kaiser Center may see new life againTri Valley Herald, CA - 6 hours agoActress Bette Davis was slated in 1960 to present Oakland with an evening of poetry by Carl Sandburg. And the center looked more like a fortified embassy in ...
- Poets and authors have their say as Spoken Word Festival starts - Virgin Islands Daily News
Daily News Photo by ALDETH LEWIN Children's book author Phillis Gershator speaks with poet and University of the Virgin Islands student Matthew Thomas outside the Virgin Islands Voices Literary and Spoken Word Festival on Friday. ST. THOMAS ...
- Palestinian national poet Darwish buried - International Herald Tribune
RAMALLAH, West Bank : Poet Mahmoud Darwish, who gave a voice to the Palestinians' longing for independence, was buried Wednesday in a pomp-filled ceremony fit for a head of state. Thousands marched behind the casket, draped in a Palestinian flag and ...
- Author Ha Jin still waiting for the right time to visit his native China (The Kansas City Star)
On a trip that has put him the closest he has been to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books.
- Flying Monkey hosts fundraiser to reform beer law - Everything Alabama
Beers, bands and 'Bama laws are the focus of Saturday's second annual Flying Monktoberfest. The event featuring bands Johnny Black and the JBirds, Damascus and Shametown, is a fundraiser to help reform Alabama's beer and brewery laws. The music ...
- Ho Xuan Huong poetry introduced in the US - VietNamNet Bridge
Ho Xuan Huong poetry introduced in the USVietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - 8 minutes agoProfessor Balaban is a poet who has been nominated for the US National Book Awards. He was previously the president of the American Literary Translators ...
- In the burning house - Signandsight.com
In the burning houseSignandsight.com, Germany - 37 minutes agoShe had initially viewed her enforced victimhood ironically and as something external to her (in 2005, with the trial still going, she made a poetry collage ...
- David Miliband and the art of criticism (Times Online)
Whatever else one thinks of David Miliband, he should be applauded for reviving what my English teacher used to call practical criticism.
- Even after war, many Georgians revere Stalin (International Herald Tribune)
A cult of Stalin persists in Georgia, where the Georgian-cobbler's-son-turned-20th-century-titan remains a towering if contentious figure.
- Up Front (New York Times)
Henry Alford is no slouch in the rhyming department, having composed, among other works, a poem using snippets from Los Angeles real estate ads.
- saturday, september 13 (St. Petersburg Times)
Giselle St. Petersburg's most popular and oft-performed ballet, Adolphe Adam's tale of a young peasant woman deceived in love by a young aristocrat. Hermitage Theater, 8 p.m.
- Schofield guilty of double murder - DesMoinesRegister.com
Schofield guilty of double murderDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 56 minutes agoJurors heard repeated testimony about Schofield's hatred for snitches, from the poetry posted on a MySpace Web page to snippets from a handwritten journal ...
- Fun family picks for the week - Detroit News
Have some live culture, kiddie-style this week. Stagecrafters' summer play, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is playing at the Baldwin Theatre in an all-kids cast for five performances. Or catch Bill Harley - singer, poet and storyteller - who is ...
- What a load of crockpots! (Salon.com)
Who doesn't want a Manwich? Sarah Haskins' new video spoofs the advertising world's rosy vision of motherhood.
- Experts scale back forecasts of sea levels - Globe and Mail
George Morrison from Toronto, ON, writes: This reporting is somewhat bass ackwards. The IPCC AR4 scenarios had scenarios with sea level rises of between 0.18 metres to 0.59 metres. See page 8, Table SPM.1 of the IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report - Summary ...
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