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- Author Events (Cape Cod Times)
Reading and reception for winner (Nancy Pearson of Wellfleet) and finalists of Cape Cod Cultural Center's first annual Poetry Contest, 3 p.m. today, at 308 Old Main St., South Yarmouth. Information: 508-394-7100 or www.cultural-center-org.
- The 2008 Jackson Young Influentials (Jackson Free Press)
Jackson is the sort of place that has the potential for great change, a mid-sized city with both a rich cultural history and a fierce “up-and-coming” attitude. Given its size and accessibility, it’s also the sort of place that begs its citizens to become actively involved in the development process.
- Support arts at Arts Festival next week (The Heights)
It's a sad fact that the arts can get overlooked in Boston College's sometimes one-dimensional Superfan culture (although even that label is inaccurate, as student sections consistently fail to be filled at sporting events). For the average student, artistic hobbies often take a backseat to the hustle and bustle of everyday college life.
- What’s Happening! Journal of the San Juans Entertainment Calendar - PNW Local News
What’s Happening! Journal of the San Juans Entertainment CalendarPNW Local News, WA - 28 minutes agoJoin other adults and listen to poetry, articles and essays, snippets and stories. Free. n Poetry and Spoken Word, 7 pm, San Juan Island Library. ...
- The Erotic, the Political, and the Personal (The New York Sun)
The Surrealist writer André Breton once declared that beauty would have to become convulsive, otherwise it would cease to be. As if in late vindication of this injunction, the paintings of Dawn Mellor set off a strange chain reaction of anger and lyricism. She is an artist driven by both sociopolitical protest and ambiguous, personal longings, linking her to Surrealism. Her paintings are at the ...
- 4 new artists ready to explore Hub City - Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription)
4 new artists ready to explore Hub CitySpartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - 3 hours agoPatrick Whitfill, a 28-year-old from Silverton, Texas, writes poetry. He plans to revise his dissertation, which is a book of poems, to write a verse drama ...
- NIU professor discusses detainees' defense (The MidWeek)
DEKALB - If it weren't so awful, it might have been funny. Attorney Marc Falkoff, assistant professor in the College of Law at Northern Illinois University, said the defense wasn't even allowed to see evidence - it was classified.
- The 'lighght' of conceptual poetry (The Daily Utah Chronicle)
In 1965, 22-year-old Aram Saroyan shifted the gaze of poetry with his one word poem, "Lighght." "Lighght," written in the middle of a white sheet of typing paper, altered and even removed the conventional reading procedures of official verse culture: gone were rhyme, meter and versification.
- They need help from flooding - La Crosse Tribune
It’s a sad situation all over the state of Wisconsin. One thing I have found to be very disturbing is that in all the flooding taking place in Wisconsin, residents of Elroy in Juneau County have fallen off the list of flood victims who lost homes ...
- Captured pedophile's history began here 19 years ago (Houston Chronicle)
When U.S. federal agents and Mexican cyberpolice recently captured an American pedophile on the FBI's most-wanted list, they snared a predator whose criminal deviance quietly began 19 years earlier in Houston.
- Effort on to restore Ga. poet Byron Herbert Reece's farm - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Union County — Drive around this precipitous territory, high up on the North Carolina line, and it's easy to see a connection between Union and its native bard. Byron Herbert Reece was tall, lean and hard, with a profile as flinty as an Appalachian ...
- Things to do this long weekend (Toronto Star)
Looking for something to do this long weekend? Here are some entertainment events going on around the city: Acoustic Harvest Folk Club has world music with an Indian flavour from Tasa, Sat. 8 p.m. ($15 at 416-264-2235). St. Nicholas Anglican, 1512 Kingston Rd.
- Young Vic's New Season to Include Weill's Street Scene and McCraney U ... - Playbill
The Young Vic has announced its new slate of productions that will run from July 2008-January 2009. Among the attractions are a new production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene , the return of Peter Brook's production of a bill of five short Samuel ...
- medici.tv Launches Major Summer Webcast Season: A Chat with ... - PlaybillArts
PlaybillArtsmedici.tv Launches Major Summer Webcast Season: A Chat with ...PlaybillArts, NY - 10 hours agoThe Medici family was one of the greatest supporters of the arts during the Renaissance, commissioning a wide array of music, painting, poetry and ...
- The revival in Britain's stately homes (Times Online)
British stately homes were written off 40 years ago. But now they have undergone an economic and social renaissance, upstairs and down. If only they could find the staff. Clive Aslet reports.
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