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- Intoxicating Rhymes and Sobering wine: The life and times of Khayyam (Payvand Iran News)
This educational documentary is about the life and times of Khayyam, the famed 11th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer. This documentary reexamines Khayyam's life, work and poetry, and attempts to identify the reasons behind our intellectual preoccupation with his poetry and message.
- St. Gregory's sets lecture by cancer survivor (The Oklahoman)
SHAWNEE — Attorney and cancer survivor Jim Chastain will give a lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday at St. Gregory's University, 1900 W MacArthur. Chastain is a writer, film critic and attorney for the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. The theme for his lecture is "When bad things happen to good writers.” He also will talk about his book, "I Survived Cancer, but Never Won the Tour de France.” ...
- Show Review + Setlist: The Eagles at the Scottrade Center ... - Riverfront Times
Show Review + Setlist: The Eagles at the Scottrade Center ...Riverfront Times, MO - 1 hour agoLike Lennon, Don Henley’s songs have a little more depth and poetry to them, with more than enough moralizing to go around (his tabloid-bashing “Dirty ...
- tells the Post - New York Post
A Yeshiva University professor left two years ago as a man - and returned last week as a woman. Literature Professor Joy Ladin, formerly known as Jay Ladin, 47, showed up for her first day of school sporting pink lipstick, a tight purple shirt and a ...
- Book profiles the colorful 150 year history of Saginaw's First Congregational Church (The Saginaw News)
David A. Sommers | The Saginaw NewsJean R. Beach, 78, of Saginaw Township with her book "In Times of Sorrow and In Times of Joy." It tells the story of the 150 years of history at First Congregational Church, which...
- Bostonist Books: Edna St. Vincent Millay (Bostonist)
With the recent events of economic crisis, feminist derision and political collision, globalization and every other celebrity being carted off to rehab, whose voice from the past can guide us through the darkness, help us find solace and inspiration in this time of terror and turpitude? How about a jazz-age poet from New England with lesbian tendencies and a pretty serious drug habit? Kind ...
- Credit crunch poetry (BBC News)
Send us your poems on the credit crunch.
- Davies: ‘Farewell to Liverpool’ - Metro Canada - Toronto
Davies: ‘Farewell to Liverpool’Metro Canada - Toronto, Canada - 1 hour agoHe has chosen music, poetry, literature and his own dialogue as a narration for this valentine to the city of his childhood. Narration, by the way, ...
- Churches in the News - RedOrbit
Churches in the NewsRedOrbit, TX - 29 minutes agoAn eclectic concert inspired by Bible passages, hiking, poetry and "The Lord of the Rings" will be held Sunday, Sept. 21, 6 pm, at Wasatch Presbyterian ...
- Broussard, McFadden, Blaser vie for Griffin Poetry Prize - Montreal Gazette
Montreal feminist postmodernist Nicole Brossard and Pulitzer Prize winner John Ashbery are among the writers shortlisted for the $100,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the most lucrative poetry prizes in the world. The annual prize awards $50,000 to ...
- Orange church hosts women's conference - Beaumont Enterprise
Orange church hosts women's conferenceBeaumont Enterprise, tx - 7 hours agoShe also has written a book of poetry, "Off in a Distance." At 3 pm Saturday, the conference will continue with the Rev. Carolyn McCall, pastor of Salem ...Church news 8/9 Lufkin Daily Newsall 2 news articles
- Area writers win library's writing competition - Pembroke Daily Observer
Area writers win library's writing competitionPembroke Daily Observer, Canada - 3 hours agoLibrary hosted the presentation ceremonies for its poetry and prose contest, held in partnership with the city to mark the 180th anniversary celebrations. ...
- • Profile: Speech therapy pioneer Jean Silbar - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
• Profile: Speech therapy pioneer Jean SilbarThe Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com, MI - 4 hours agoHer refrigerator is covered with magnetic poetry. Among the latest verses: "Juicy fiends delicately eat chocolate sausages" and "Diamonds smell like peaches ...
- Herring 'n' butterflies: Rick Jones remembers his tutor, WG Sebald - The Independent
The inaugural WG Sebald conference took place under heavy skies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The 100 international delegates slept in student residences designed to resemble ziggurat pyramids by the architect Denys Lasdun in the 1960s ...
- X-Files Ending Spoiled - Cinema Blend
Cinema BlendX-Files Ending SpoiledCinema Blend - 26 minutes agoBetter bring a date to this one gentlemen. You don’t want to be the creepy dude sitting alone at the back while Mulder’s reading badly written love poetry.
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