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- Zimbabwe: Leonard Zhakata Headlines 'One Love' Peace Festival (AllAfrica.com)
LEONARD Zhakata and other artists were yesterday expected to perform at a festival dubbed One Love Arts Festival, which calls for peace and development in Zimbabwe.
- 'Infinite Jest' author, 46, an apparent suicide - CNN
'Infinite Jest' author, 46, an apparent suicideCNN - 4 minutes ago"He was the best of our generation, and his death is a loss beyond describing," Richard Powers, winner of the National Book Award in 2006 for the novel "The ...
- Mid-summer fair - Emporia Gazette
Mid-summer fairEmporia Gazette, KS - 1 hour ago“Where the Sidewalk Ends,†directed by Nancy Boyce, will feature the children reading and acting out selected works from Shel Silverstein’s 1974 poetry ...
- Wisdom Like a Flower Bed: Sa'di's 'Gulistan' - New York Sun
Wisdom Like a Flower Bed: Sa'di's 'Gulistan'New York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoBy contrast, Mr. Thackston's translations of the poetry capture its hard-bitten wisdom accurately enough but give little sense of its beauty. ...
- Toby Keith is back to form in rockin' Blossom concert - Cleveland Plain Dealer
One of the best country music summers in Cleveland's recent history came to a sweaty, satisfying close Saturday night when Toby Keith turned Blossom Music Center into the Big Dog Daddy Pound. Keith totally erased whatever bad memories that may have ...
- Education Notes - Dallas Morning News
Dallas ISD has been awarded a $667,000 grant from the Meadows Foundation to implement a coaching program for high school principals. The grant will allow the recruitment and training of 11 principal coaches who will work with 22 selected principals ...
- Salvadoran poet to sign books this weekend - Frederick News Post (subscription)
Salvadoran poet to sign books this weekendFrederick News Post (subscription), MD - 7 minutes agoA well-known writer in her hometown of San Salvador, Cortez had published her first book of poetry, "Lumbre de Soledad" (Fire of Solitude), in 1976, ...
- Booknotes: Author Ana Castillo will speak at book fair in October (El Paso Times)
Castillo will speak at book fair in October - EL PASO -- Author Ana Castillo has been selected as the keynote speaker for the Great Southwest Book Fair, which will be Oct. 25 at the El Paso Main Library, 501 N. Oregon.
- Book Review:O United Nations - The New Nation
Book Review:O United NationsThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 6 hours agoSplit into three parts, Sinha MA Sayeed's book offers a modern take on prosaic poetry delving into the many issues which shape the United Nations agenda. ...
- András Mezei, Poet of the Horrors - Forward
András Mezei, a major poet of the Holocaust, died in his native Budapest on May 30. He was 78. As a child, Mezei survived the three-month Soviet siege of Nazi-occupied Budapest in the city’s Jewish ghetto. As a teen, he emigrated to Israel but ...
- OnStage: Good shows running - Minneapolis Star Tribune
And they're off. A flurry of new productions have opened for the fall theater season, from revues and musicals to riveting dramas and intimate send-ups of society. Here's a survey of some critical favorites. Two one-acts, Sun Mee Chomet's "Asiamnesia ...
- From Ballasts to Ballads: Fishermen Take to the Stage - Forbes
Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce: -0- *T WHAT: Telling tales of the deep, fishermen and women will reel in audiences during the 12th annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Ore., the former canning capital of the world. Weathered and wise ...
- The Year Nothing Changed - Texas Observer
Texas ObserverThe Year Nothing ChangedTexas Observer, TX - 58 minutes agoMy own high school experiences were more the tragic, pining Emily Dickinson variety, except without the great poetry and genius. I read books, mooned over ...
- A 'legend' passes on - The Kingston Whig-Standard
A 'legend' passes onThe Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada - 8 minutes agoMcCarney was also an aspiring writer, who wrote and published poetry, songs and a novel,Chess with Violence -Rum Running. Ferry captain Johnson, also an ...
- The works of Kenneth Patchen - Lahontan Valley News
The works of Kenneth PatchenLahontan Valley News, NV - 12 hours agoAllen Ginsberg noted that he was a “senior survivor of the spiritual poetry wars.†He worked with Joan Cage on an experimental play and Henry Miller wrote a ...
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