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- Eager fans brim with anticipation - Canada.com
Eager fans brim with anticipationCanada.com, Canada - 14 hours agoAt 85, Gwen Berkowitz had been waiting a lifetime to see a live performance by the man whose poetry and music helped to define her life. ...
- Clergy in the closet - Washington Blade
The connection between sexual identity and Judeo-Christian values is fraught with complexities, which are explored in detail in “The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir” by poet Honor Moore. The searing chronicle lays bare the dual life of her father ...
- A first for Badlands Trio - Florida Times-Union
A first for Badlands TrioFlorida Times-Union, FL - 21 hours agoHe doesn't break a lot of new ground with his ragged poetry and broken heart. But he can turn a phrase and throw a little humor in when you're not looking. ...
- Hear & Near (5/30) - Ahwatukee Foothills News
Ahwatukee First Sundays - Healthy Laughter with Laurie's Laughter Club meets from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on the first Sundays (June 1) at Fire Station 43, Community Room, 4110 E. Chandler Blvd. Certified laughter instructor and local resident Laurie ...
- Holiday observances span valley - Medford Mail Tribune
It's Memorial Day. Schools, post offices, libraries and some businesses are closed today, and Memorial Day ceremonies span the valley. Here's a look at what's available: — In Medford, Eastwood Cemetery (off Siskiyou Boulevard across from Bear Creek ...
- Winners of Lorin Tarr Gill Writing Competition (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
The National League of American Pen Women's Honolulu chapter has announced the winners of the 2008 Lorin Tarr Gill Writing Competition. The biennial contest was open to all writers in categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The poetry winners are printed below.
- Funny prize from Rosen (Guardian Unlimited)
May 14: Children's laureate Michael Rosen has stepped up his mission to put the pleasure back into reading by creating a prize for the funniest children's books
- Memorable Speech: An Interview with David Yezzi - MichNews.com
David Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion and a well-known poet whose published collections include The Hidden Model and Sad Is Eros . His essays have appeared at Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New ...
- Shakespeare in the sun - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesShakespeare in the sunLos Angeles Times, CA - 35 minutes agoThese days, it takes a determined theater troupe to lure people away from malls and multiplexes for an evening of iambic pentameter poetry. ...
- Barbara Gowdy, Rachel Zolf win Ontario's Trillium Book Awards - Canada East
TORONTO - Authors Barbara Gowdy and Rachel Zolf were named winners Thursday of the 21st annual Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's top literary prize. Gowdy won for her novel "Helpless" (HarperCollins) while Zolf won the poetry award for her collection ...
- From Trash to Treasure ... and Back Again (East Bay Express)
There's an old African proverb: "If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing." This is as opposed to, say, walking around stiffly, with the cold skewer of civilization lodged deep in your bowels. Like most of us do. The lesson is that art is not a specialist profession.
- Etched with human passion - Daily Press
Etched with human passionDaily Press, VA - 29 minutes agoIt also provides a stirring, sometimes uncannily personal window into the disappointment, mystery and poetry of his old age, which was hounded both personal ...
- Refreshing breeze at the Bowl - Los Angeles Times
Tuesday night, for the 87th time, the Los Angeles Philharmonic opened its classical music series at the Hollywood Bowl. For the first time, at least as far as anyone could remember, it rained. Less a downpour than a spritz from a passing cloud, the ...
- Teacher uses poetry to connect with students, give them a voice - Avon Post
Teacher uses poetry to connect with students, give them a voiceAvon Post, CT - 1 hour agoSneha also said being in a book was a great experience, as was attending the first 2008 Sunken Garden poetry event and hearing former US Poet Laureate ...
- Island Expressions Erotica sensually captivating - SKNVibes.com
SKNVibes.comIsland Expressions Erotica sensually captivatingSKNVibes.com, St. Kitts and Nevis - 6 hours agoSeveral local writers of poetry and the spoken word expressed their innermost erotic thoughts and desires last evening at the Royal St. Kitts Hotel’s Cane ...
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