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- Feeding the Spirit and the Mind at the Summer Festival of Sacred Music (The New York Sun)
England's Coventry Cathedral is best known in the history of 20th-century music as the bombed ruin whose restoration inspired the creation of the Benjamin Britten masterpiece "War Requiem." But other pieces were commissioned for this miraculous architectural project, including the "Missa Brevis" of Sir William Walton, which was featured Sunday at the Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. ...
- Recent UBC Media Releases - University of British Columbia
Recent UBC Media ReleasesUniversity of British Columbia, Canada - 20 minutes agoKunqu – a synthesis of drama, opera, ballet, poetry and music – is one of the oldest literary styles of traditional Chinese theatre performed today. ...
- Anselm Kiefer awarded the 2008 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Art Daily)
BERLIN.- The Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade has chosen German artist Anselm Kiefer to be the recipient of this year’s Peace Prize.
- A Weird Sort of Poetry, Indeed - New York Times Blogs
A Weird Sort of Poetry, IndeedNew York Times Blogs, NY - 8 hours ago... has been translated from the Japanese by a non-native speaker,” Alex Balk of Radar writes, “but there’sa weird sort of poetry to it, don’t you think? ...
- Poetry with a sense of place - The State
Poetry with a sense of placeThe State, SC - 6 hours agoThe Medical University of South Carolina seeks poetry submissions to accompany art work at a new center for the diagnosis and treatment of heart, ...
- Meeting of laureates - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
There’s a sparseness to Gertrude Halstead’s work, a delicacy of image and language that seems to be lost on many younger poets today. Halstead, the poet laureate of Worcester, is celebrating her 92nd birthday by reading alongside Boston poet ...
- Happenings (The Post and Courier)
--Lavonne J. Adams, author of the chapbooks "In the Shadow of the Mountain" and "Everyday Still Life," will sign copies of her work following a Poetry Society of South Carolina meeting at 7 p.m. Friday at Second Presbyterian Church downtown.
- From car seats to condoms, nasty compounds have invaded our lives (Colorado Springs Independent)
I am half the man my father is. This disturbing fortune came to me about five years ago, but not from an odd relative or a sadistic girlfriend.
- Entertainment Calendar: 5/15-5/21 - Mankato Free Press
“Image and the Word” Opening reception and Poetry Reading — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Emy Frentz Arts Guild, Mankato. Exhibit runs through June 3. Capital For a Day — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., New Ulm. Featuring popcorn wagon dedication and naming, Pictorial ...
- Lawrence Lessig's Supreme Showdown - Wired
What's left of a dream is stored at the Stanford Law School library in 12 fat green loose-leaf binders and several legal boxes of supporting documents and briefs. They chronicle the 54 days that Lawrence Lessig, the Elvis of cyberlaw, helped Judge ...
- Rainn Wilson’s Sasquatch Blog: Reveling in REM, Waking Up to the ... - Rolling Stone
Rainn Wilson’s Sasquatch Blog: Reveling in REM, Waking Up to the ...Rolling Stone - 3 hours agoWith such mystery and intensity and poetry. Why, oh why did the Cure insist on doing its sound check at 6:30 AM???!!! I’m not making that up. ...
- It should be a hot night with Pasadena Pops - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
It should be a hot night with Pasadena PopsInland Valley Daily Bulletin, CA - 5 hours agoWe are using poetry by Dylan Thomas and Eli Weisel, music by Porter, Mendelssohn and Gottschalk, and poetry by Steven Connell and Sekou (the misfit) as ...
- Classic album, bands get a second look - Biloxi Sun Herald
T his April 22 release is another installment of Eagle Rock's Classic Albums series, and is one of the most interesting/involved/expansive ones yet. The Doors eponymous debut album, recorded in 1967, was the often-dark flipside to the flower-power ...
- Art glimpses - Al Watany
WATANI International 22 June 2008 Works by the handicapped From 6 to 14 June, the Syndicate of Journalists hosted the first exhibition of creations by handicapped children. The exhibition was opened by the artist Mohsen Shaalan, head of the plastic ...
- Goose was one bad mother - but she helps kids read (Montreal Gazette)
In the age of This Little Piggy Went to Prada, it's easy to get misty-eyed over the diminishing appeal of traditional nursery rhymes. But when Mother Goose is fĂŞted nationally today for her contributions to literacy and storytelling, let's remember that despite the sentimental memories her name evokes, the icon of childhood poetry was one bad mother.
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