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- Trop rock show to help New Hope Foundation (Atlanticville)
Jim Morris and the Big Bamboo Band will take the stage at New Hope Foundation's first Trop Rock Festival on Sept. 21 from 1-7 p.m. at the Shore Casino in Atlantic Highlands. Other featured musicians include John Frinzi, Doyle Grisham, Rackett, Sunny Jim White, Charlie DeCosa and Gary Philips.
- Gay Cinema! Aram Shelton! Museum Party! (Free Times)
WEDNESDAY 23 We hear you, Eight Days reader: It’s Wednesday, and you’re smacked in the face with a mid-week funk. Well bust that funk with some honest-to-goodness funk!
- Here's to that ever-rewarding standard, the sonnet (Toronto Star)
Ah, the sonnet. It's the Scrabble of poetic forms – irresistible to many a writer who enjoys the challenge of wordplay within set rules.
- Mixed bag at Latitude - Evening Standard
Aggressive intermittent showers may have encroached on the weekend but there were enough hours of factor-30 sunshine to keep the 25,000 cheerful. Latitude, this year proving itself as much an arts as a music festival, has doubled in size since its ...
- Woman shares great joy with 'Grandmotherhood' (The Oklahoman)
Sandra Gales Shapard has published her fifth book of poetry, and it should be a resounding hit with grandmothers. The small volume, "Grandmotherhood: Poetry About Life in the Best Neighborhood in the World,” (Tate Publishing, $10.99), features 50 endearing poems. It takes readers through the varying stages of being a grandmother, from the first announcement of a daughter's pregnancy, at which ...
- Iranian professors to participate in Roudaki confab in Tajikistan (Islamic Republic News Agency)
Iran - Tajikistan - Roudaki A five-member group of Iranian Persian language professors arrived in Tajikistan on Wednesday. The Iranian professors are going to participate in a conference marking the 1,150th death anniversary of the founder of Persian poetry, Abu Abdollah Jaafar Roudaki.
- 8 1/2 things to do this week - Edmonton Journal
Edmonton Journal8 1/2 things to do this weekEdmonton Journal, Canada - 19 minutes agoHear CAA award winners Asa Boxer (poetry), Colleen Murphy (drama), Mark Haroun (emerging writer, and Edmontonian!), Robert Wright (history) and more! ...
- A tribute to Grace Paley: a writer who found beauty in the everyday - Somerville News
A tribute to Grace Paley: a writer who found beauty in the everydaySomerville News, MA - 1 hour ago... a National Book Award. She published several volumes of poetry, was elected the first New York State Writer, and the Vermont Poet Laureate in (2003). ...
- LETTERS IN THE EDITOR’S MAILBAG - Register-Guard
One of the most disturbing outcomes of the most recent cyclist fatality in Eugene is the blame-the-victim sentiment expressed by The Register-Guard and reflected by much of the public. I have heard no evidence of any recklessness on the part of ...
- Pick the verse that wins the purse - Minnpost.com
Your genial host's father once confided to him a bit of wisdom that he claimed to have learned somehow from insiders on the vaudeville circuit: The three slowest weeks of the year were Easter, Christmas and Milwaukee. As both your genial host's ...
- 08-01-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE - Eurweb.com
08-01-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGEEurweb.com, CA - 4 hours ago"I also felt like it showed who I really was as a young man outside of the music, because sometimes you can get lost in that box of being just a teen ...
- Let’s go to camp - Georgetown Record
Let’s go to campGeorgetown Record, MA - Jun 23, 2008Seventh- and eighth-graders participate in Teen Leaders Camp on Children’s Island developing leadership qualities and social skills while building ...
- Original poetry: White Moon by Wang Xiaoni (Guardian Unlimited)
As part of our series of new Chinese writing, a poem from Wang Xiaoni
- Discussing 'Writing for Social Change' - IdahoStatesman.com
Discussing 'Writing for Social Change'IdahoStatesman.com, ID - 15 minutes agoThe 30 southern Idaho educators visited the Anne Frank Memorial, took part in a slam poetry workshop led by poet/teacher/Rep. Nicole LeFavour, D-Boise, ...
- 'Stitching' Extends Through August 9th - Broadway World
'Stitching' Extends Through August 9thBroadway World, NY - 2 hours agoThe visceral poetry and physicality between the lovers creates a surprisingly tender, often humorous, brutal romance. Stitching challenges the notions of ...
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