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- The sonnetmeister (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
is a pleasant bonus to being a friend or colleague of Martin Bidney, Binghamton University professor emeritus of English. If you spend time together, have a lunch or even a conversation while passing in a hallway, he will often pen a poem in response. And then he will e-mail it to you.
- Express Lane: Kids’ book sings; What, you worry? (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Kids’ book singsDionne Warwick, she of sweet voice, now adds a sweet children’s book to her résumé. Warwick and her co-authors used one of her many No. 1 hits as the title of her first children’s book. “Say a Littl...
- Writers’ organisation to become NGO - Rwanda New Times
GASABO - Kivu Writers Organiation (KWO) announced yesterday that it plans to become a local Non Governmental Organisation. In a statement during the organisation’s annual conference held Saturday at Kigali Institute of Education (KIE), the Director ...
- Tribute to Bill Studebaker - Boise Weekly
Boise WeeklyTribute to Bill StudebakerBoise Weekly, USA - 10 hours agoRe-reading his poems now is like reading them for the first timeâ€â€new, as all good poetry should be. I hear his voice in every line. ...An Idaho Poet Boise Weeklyall 2 news articles
- Prose watch: Obama acceptance speech - Politico
Seattle Post IntelligencerProse watch: Obama acceptance speechPolitico, DC - 40 minutes agoHere’s Politico’s past-due look at those points in his speech where the poetry and prose diverge on closer examination. Of course McCain will be coming in ...Video: Democratic Convention: Recapping Obama's Acceptance Speech WSJDigitalNetworkall 2,125 news articles
- Andrew Motion - Eastern Daily Press
King's Lynn Arts Centre (King's Lynn Festival) A festival audience shared an intimate and delightful evening in the company of Andrew Motion, who has been the country's Poet Laureate since 1999. As well as reading from his previously published poems ...
- 2008 'Florida Book Awards' competition begins with call for entries - Herald Tribune
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Book Awards has kicked off its third annual competition with a call for entries in eight categories, including a new one for “Book Design.†Established in 2006 and now the most comprehensive state book awards ...
- Sweet memories of San Miguel (Ventura County Star)
Betsy Lester Roberti saw ghosts of love and a lost life on a recent afternoon at San Miguel Island. Both had been snatched away  suddenly, darkly  long ago. She held the ruins of her old home in her hands on this sunny midsummer's day. Ghosts, good and bad, have a way of hanging around like a permanent curtain, like the eternal sea. They come back whenever she returns to San Miguel. ...
- Agreda: Ubbog and Cordillera Writing - Sun.Star
Agreda: Ubbog and Cordillera WritingSun.Star, Philippines - 59 minutes ago... we conducted monthly Creative Writing workshops and occasionally performed vernacular poetry in open mike sessions and events in the city. ...
- Critic's Choice for the week of January 28-February 3, 2004 (East Bay Express)
If you find most pop-punk lyrics too dull and unimaginative, try "He whipped my ass in tennis/So I fucked his ass in bed" on for size. Indeed, it could only be the Pansy Division , famed out-and- really -proud Green Day coconspirators with a new album, Total Entertainment!
- Summer in the City: Out-of-this-world, yet down-to-Earth art - News 8 Austin
News 8 AustinSummer in the City: Out-of-this-world, yet down-to-Earth artNews 8 Austin, TX - 8 hours ago"We have workshops for grown ups, we have the sculpture safari, dance performances, poetry readings, plays … Midsummer Nights Dream during Summer Solstice … ...
- Prime Time Calendar the week of Aug 6, 2008 (Independent Press)
Butch Ross, performs traditional American songs with a mountain dulcimer accompaniment, and his own ballads. at The Minstrel Coffeehouse, Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 22. Admission to the coffeehouse is $7 at the door; donations on the way out.
- IN BRIEF - Pahrump Valley Times
Nevada Outreach Training Organization is seeking a volunteer "grandma" to work in the shelter. Qualifications include a lot of free time, must love kids and be a good listener, must be able to sleep at the shelter 2-3 nights a week. She can share ...
- Blogging LinuxWorld San Francisco - InfoWorld
Blogging LinuxWorld San FranciscoInfoWorld, CA - 12 hours agoThe InfoWorld crew has been kind enough to take on a LinuxWorld blog, but instead I am planning to focus on eighteenth century poetry, just to throw all you ...
- Fans inspired by Coventry Telegraph poet Martin Brown - Coventry Telegraph
Fans inspired by Coventry Telegraph poet Martin BrownCoventry Telegraph, UK - 6 hours agoFather-of- two Martin, aged 52, who lives with his wife, Jill, at Buckingham Rise, first discovered a talent for writing poems as a child. ...
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