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- The power of words - Stockton Record
The power of wordsStockton Record, CA - 57 minutes ago... leading administrators to suspend and later fire youth poetry coach Bill Nevins and sparking a controversy involving free speech, war and art. ...
- National Performance Network and NCCC Grant Funds Boston Poet ... - PRLog.Org (press release)
National Performance Network and NCCC Grant Funds Boston Poet ...PRLog.Org (press release), Romania - 2 hours agoThe residency will focus upon the intersection of poetry and song through: a major public performance, workshops for residents and youth and a public/radio ...
- Lear, Angelou to be honored for leadership - MiamiHerald.com
Lear, Angelou to be honored for leadershipMiamiHerald.com, FL - 12 minutes agoIn 1982, he founded the advocacy group People for the American Way. The award is named for the famed contralto and Philadelphia native, who died in 1993 at ...
- Poetic journey through the fantastic (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - Poetry, like traveling, involves escape from the ordinary exigencies of life into the enchanting. A poet can achieve this through his skillful and creative use of words, which makes the commonplace unfamiliar, the ordinary bizarre.
- Puccini’s heroines - Malaysia Star
Malaysia StarPuccini’s heroinesMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 2 hours ago“I fell in love with the art of accompaniment and the soprano voice. I love poetry and, for me, opera and art song from the romantic period are the ultimate ...
- Passings , george carlin , celeb deaths , r.i.p. - Defamer.com
If you haven't yet heard, George Carlin died of heart failure yesterday in St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica at the age of 71. In that time, the prolific stand-up and actor produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, and three books—to say ...
- George Elliott Clarke to give special public reading tonight - Cape Breton
NORTH RIVER — Author George Elliott Clarke will take part in a special public reading of some of his work, tonight at 7 p.m. at the North River Hall. Clarke will be a special guest of the St. Ann’s Bay Book Club which is thrilled that the highly ...
- Column: Scholarships, art and the village sibs of Gloucester - Wicked Local Manchester
Column: Scholarships, art and the village sibs of GloucesterWicked Local Manchester, MA - 1 hour agoLes’s affection for Gloucester goes further, spanning Gloucester’s sibling spectrum and even reaching into other art forms – namely, poetry. ...
- Jan Steckel, poet laureate for the hills - Examiner.com
Jan Steckel, poet laureate for the hillsExaminer.com - 1 hour agoShe keeps writing unabated, by lying "down flat with my laptop suspended over me." With another set of poems now complete, she wants to publish them soon. ...
- Dermie rates the top three (Perth Now)
AFTER this weekend, half the clubs in the AFL turn their thoughts to the draft. Dermott Brereton analyses the top three prospects.
- Our Daily Bleg: What Are the Greatest Lyrics of the 21st Century ... - New York Times Blogs
Our Daily Bleg: What Are the Greatest Lyrics of the 21st Century ...New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- A mother's LOVE - GoErie.com
A mother's LOVEGoErie.com, PA - 2 hours agoShe composes poems each year for the anniversary of Williams' May 20, 2006, death and for the anniversary of her 1947 birth, which is today. ...
- A Jungle Out There - San Diego Reader
A Jungle Out ThereSan Diego Reader, CA - 2 hours ago... his character having undergone a “controversial pigmentation alteration” to play an African-American foot soldier, emphatically putting the grunt in the ...
- Winners of ‘poo poetry’ contest announced (Aspen Daily News)
The city of Aspen has chosen its favorite poems, limericks and haikus for its first-ever “Dog Poo Poetry Competition.”
- Bold English: Anglo-Saxon Poetry (The New York Sun)
Hwæt. That word, barking through the clatter of the mead hall, typically opened an Old English poem in the Dark Ages, and roughly translates to "What" or "Listen now." Old English is largely Germanic, its brusque sounds ungussied by the softer French words that would later mix into Middle English. It is the language of conquerors: The Roman Empire, finally crushed by the Vandals and Goths, ...
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