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- Inmate-actors find purpose in jail theater performance - Gary Post Tribune
Inmate-actors find purpose in jail theater performanceGary Post Tribune, IN - 2 hours ago"Yellow is the color of new beginnings," according to the Sunflower Poetry of Hope, a book the women compiled while participating with the Theatre of ...
- Obasanjo, Soyinka, Ulli Beier, Trade Words - Nigeria Guardian
C ONTROVERSY over the siting of the proposed UNESCO institute in Nigeria persists, with renowned arts archivist, editor, writer and scholar, Ulli Beier refusing attempts to locate his art collections anywhere else except Osogbo, where he lived and ...
- The beauty of Islam (The Kansas City Star)
Several readers of last week’s column asked why I called Islam “incredibly beautiful.” Based on decades of study, world travel and long friendships with Muslims, I answer with three hints.
- Meet the folkers (Independent)
The stocky, articulate Chris T-T looks like Jack Black without the manic twitches, while the lean, equally garrulous Frank Turner resembles Ed Norton’s Disquieting Derek Vinyard in American History X . Both of these bolshy folkies are from Winchester (“I’m furiously middle class,” claims Turner), both sport beards, both swear profusely and they’re both signed to Xtra Mile Recordings, the ...
- 'Exiles' is sure to get its claws in your brain (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Here is what happened when I began raving to some (very nice) friends about “Exiles,” a new novel by Ron Hansen about how the 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came to write perhaps his most inaccessible poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” after hearing of the death of five German nuns in a shipwreck on the shoals of the Thames.
- Ni, Wo, Ta: the early Chinese education of an ABC - People's Daily Online
Ni, Wo, Ta: the early Chinese education of an ABCPeople's Daily Online, China - 49 minutes agoI went to Chinese school in the summer with many other American-born Chinese (ABCs), toting my plastic lunchbox and a few Chinese grammar and poetry books. ...
- Jeff Cohen's Shortlist - MediaRights
MediaRightsJeff Cohen's ShortlistMediaRights - 1 hour agoI've loved films that take us, through depth or poetry or whimsy, into slices of our culture - like Hoop Dreams, Tongues Untied or Super Size Me (a doc even ...
- Local book events - Long Beach Press-Telegram
Local book eventsLong Beach Press-Telegram, CA - 13 hours agoKate Buckley and Carine Topal read their work at a Tebot Bach poetry meeting. 8 pm, Golden West College, Community Room 102 (near Gothard Street entrance), ...
- East News Briefs - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Elizabeth Area Community Development Corp. is seeking volunteers for RiverSweep 2008, scheduled for 8 a.m. to noon Saturday along the shoreline of the Monongahela River in Elizabeth Borough. RiverSweep is a riverbank cleanup that extends the ...
- 'Exiles': Hansen gets inside poet Hopkins' head (San Francisco Chronicle)
Exiles By Ron Hansen Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 227 pages; $23 Ron Hansen's best novels, "Mariette in Ecstasy" (1991) and "Atticus" (1996), probe the realms of religion and ethics with uncommon intelligence and deeply felt characterizations of people in crisis....
- Muse Frontman Stalked By Fan - KBS Radio
Muse Frontman Stalked By FanKBS Radio, Canada - 5 hours agoHe's got loads of poetry that he has written, which is all about the end of the world. He's trying to create little bits of clues and puzzles that are ...
- Talk of the Neighborhood, April 13 - Waco Tribune Herald
Talk of the Neighborhood, April 13Waco Tribune Herald, TX - 2 hours ago... WordMasters Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of different kinds of prose and poetry. ...
- Allan Ahlberg: 'The fun thing is still making the book' - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukAllan Ahlberg: 'The fun thing is still making the book'Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoThis, he points out, is his most remarkable sales statistic, since it is poetry - not the fact that the Jolly Postman picturebook and its two sequels sold ...
- Poetry jam focuses on learning - San Bernardino Sun
Poetry jam focuses on learningSan Bernardino Sun, CA - 2 hours agoOn June 21, the San Bernardino City Unified School District and the Concerned African-American Parents Alliance will host the "Say It Loud! Poetry Slam" at ...
- Bulletin Board for Broward County - Sun-Sentinel.com
Bulletin Board for Broward CountySun-Sentinel.com, FL - 1 hour agoFree. Call 954-967-1821. MelloMondays, music and poetry featuring Dead Prez, 8 pm-2 am at 115 N. 21st Ave., Hollywood. Call 786-333-8158. ...
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