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- New features at this year's Stan Rogers Folk Festival (The News)
(THE NEWS) – There's always something new at the Stan Rogers Folk Festival and this year visitors can, as usual, look forward to a couple of interesting firsts.
- When Experience and Disaster Collide - New York Times Blogs
Iowans have taken to calling this week’s devastating flooding “ our Katrina .” Katrina does come to mind when you look at these photos of Cedar Rapids engulfed by the Cedar River . But Iowa is lucky to have been spared a Katrina-sized death ...
- Curtain Up - nextbook
nextbookCurtain Upnextbook, NY - 3 hours agoDid it have any influence on poetry or literature? Actually it was the reverse. The Theater was influenced by the classics of Yiddish poetry and literature, ...
- The Frontline - Stage
The FrontlineStage, UK - 4 hours agoBut the demotic vigour and street poetry of the dialogue, and the vibrancy of the ska, gospel and hip hop-inflected musical accompaniment, ...
- Kids exercise their creativity at writing camp (Orlando Sentinel)
Teaching kids the joys and wonders of the written word might seem almost quaint in an era of text-messaging shorthand and languishing public libraries.
- Celebrating independence and heritage - Sterling Journal-Advocate
STERLING — Singing cowboys, a blacksmith, an auctioneer, demonstrations of butter churning and crafts, donkey rides, snow cones, fundraising, costume contests and lots of food — these were just some of the offerings at the 2008 Logan County ...
- Dick Polman: Obama-Clinton dream ticket not entirely fantasy - Post-Bulletin
Dick Polman: Obama-Clinton dream ticket not entirely fantasyPost-Bulletin, MN - 8 hours agoAnd, stylistically, he is the poetry, and she is the prose. We've all heard the arguments about why such a union could never happen. ...
- Your Rockland Express community news (The Journal News)
Sharon M. Goodman, the former principal of St. Catharine of Alexandria School in Blauvelt, has been named the principal of the newly formed Holy Family Catholic Academy in Norwood, N.J. The academy was formed through a merger of the Catholic Academy of Northern Valley in Demarest, N.J., and Holy Family Interparochial School in Norwood.
- William Stafford's Poetry of False Witness (The New York Sun)
When William Stafford (1914-93) was given the National Book Award for poetry, for his 1962 collection "Traveling Through the Dark," the judges said of his poems that "their music knows the value of silence." This seems a dubious tribute. Would a composer be acclaimed for his mastery of rests? In fact, though Stafford often wrote about silence — and made grand claims for it — he was an unusually ...
- Opera Camp Hits The Right Note - Yankton Daily Press (subscription)
Opera Camp Hits The Right NoteYankton Daily Press (subscription), SD - 16 hours agoIt’s the poetry, the melody and the harmonies,” she said. “He really stresses making the piece your own, internally, because people may have heard the same ...
- Origins - New York Times
OriginsNew York Times, United States - 3 hours agoHe is also a polemicist on behalf of the mongrel life. His 1998 book “Les Identités Meurtrières” (translated into English two years later as “In the Name of ...
- Flush with opportunity, bathroom bards perform - Business Gazette
Flush with opportunity, bathroom bards performBusiness Gazette, MD - 1 hour agoIt was a bizarre setting for a poetry reading, an art form usually associated with a sophisticated night club or poetry slam, but for Bathroom Poetry ...
- Margaret Atwood Wins EU50,000 Prince of Asturias Prize in Spain - Bloomberg
Margaret Atwood Wins EU50,000 Prince of Asturias Prize in SpainBloomberg - 4 hours agoAtwood, 68, has churned out more than 25 books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction in her 30 years of writing. She is best known for her novels, ...Atwood nets prestigious Spanish literary prize CBC.caall 93 news articles
- Uzoatu shortlisted for 2008 Caine Prize - Daily Sun
Uzoatu shortlisted for 2008 Caine PrizeDaily Sun, Nigeria - May 12, 2008Uzoatu’s first novel The god of Poetry was short listed for the 2005 NLNG, the Nigeria Prize for Literature. A former journalist, Uzoatu holds a BA from the ...
- Karadzic: From Dissident Poet to Most Wanted - BalkanInsight.com
Karadzic: From Dissident Poet to Most WantedBalkanInsight.com, Serbia - 3 hours ago... man who had published a few collections of poetry, had the reputation of a prominent doctor, and was a member of the Sarajevo Football team management. ...
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