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- Frat housemother at SMU loves serving Pi Kappa Alpha - QuickDFW.com
The bass of a neighbor's stereo thumped against the thin walls of Lila McCurtain's apartment. Deep voices shouted profanities outside her window. A car alarm went off. Oblivious to the chaos, Ms. McCurtain calmly crossed her legs and leaned forward ...
- What’s black and white and read all over? - World Magazine
Graphic novels are the latest blockbuster answer to an image-driven culture in search of stories and meaning Every once in a while Christians discover that they are way behind in some emerging art form—and then comes a rush to compete, sometimes by ...
- Wisdom went with the words at Native Son (Las Vegas Sun)
Fri, May 2, 2008 (2 a.m.) The first black senator in Nevada’s Legislature, corporals and coaches, the first black women in the fire departments of Clark County and Las Vegas, directors of programs to help gang members, engineers, no-hitter pitchers — they all learned something at Native Son.
- 12th May tragedy & new challenges (Pakistani Newspaper)
by Amjad Malik April was a month to celebrate the birthday of our national poet Sir Allama Mohammad Iqbal who with his visionary poetry tried to wake our long slept nation as well as ummah and declared our youth ‘eagles’ who with their strong character and intelligence will earn repute for their country in the community of nation.
- That Is the Question - Nymag.com
E ven by the standards of Things You Might See in Central Park at Night, the scenery David Korins has designed for the Public’s revival of Hamlet is perverse. He has erected amid all that green loveliness a massive whitish wall, topped by a black ...
- Maoist China foreign policy: 1970s and 1980s - Centre des Médias Alternatifs du Québec
The Mandate of Heaven (Excerpt). A detailed account of Maoist Chinese foreign policy is beyond the scope of this article, but some examples will illustrate the central thesis: that China’s foreign policy is in no way different from that of other ...
- New Yorker praises C.D. Wright's latest book of poetry - Harrison Daily Times
A new book of poems by Carolyn Wright, daughter of Ernie and Aline Wright of Harrison, is drawing critical acclaim. Her “Rising, Falling, Hovering” brought this review from The New Yorker: “Wright is a resolutely experimental poet, funny and ...
- The 'lighght' of conceptual poetry (The Daily Utah Chronicle)
In 1965, 22-year-old Aram Saroyan shifted the gaze of poetry with his one word poem, "Lighght." "Lighght," written in the middle of a white sheet of typing paper, altered and even removed the conventional reading procedures of official verse culture: gone were rhyme, meter and versification.
- Calendar for June 4 (The Kansas City Star)
MONEYVILLE CHILDREN’S EXHIBIT: Dollars and cents in fun environment. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Crown Center Shops Showplace and Atrium, 2450 Grand. Free. www.crowncenter.com (816-274-8444)
- Audience enjoys Dawson's quirks - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription)
Audience enjoys Dawson's quirksMilwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI - 7 hours agoBetween the spare instrumentation and the minimalist melodies, the songs were a stream-of-consciousness poetry. But that shyness was also linked to a ...
- Cool and Breezy Cuba - World Music Central
World Music CentralCool and Breezy CubaWorld Music Central, India - 2 hours agoDelving into the "nueva trova" movement of mixing lyrical poetry with the island's folk traditions, Cafe Cubano smartly flavors the familiar with a ...
- 90-Year-Old Poet Holds Public Reading Of New Book - Western Queens Gazette
90-Year-Old Poet Holds Public Reading Of New BookWestern Queens Gazette, NY - 5 hours agoLeon Zuckrow, a 90-year-old Flushing House resident, will give a free public reading from his just-published, first book of poetry, Love & Death & Love, ...
- Readable and ‘rememberable’ - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
nothing prepares you, by Vivimarie Vanderpoorten, Zeus Paperbacks, 2007. Rs. 295.00. Reviewed by Malinda Seneviratne. There are two kinds of writers. Some describe what we all see in exquisite ways. They give the ‘everyday’ a beauty that we never ...
- Library News for Monday, June 30, 2008 (The Milford Daily News)
Library News for Monday, June 30, 2008
- America Back on Track... for Thursday, June 19th - OpEdNews.com
Our Quote of the Day is from William Shakespeare who said, "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it ...
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