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- When Czechoslovakia wowed the world (The Prague Post)
In 1958, the Czechoslovak pavilion at the World Expo in Brussels was an international triumph. Fifty years later, artifacts from this extremely successful exhibit for promoting Czech culture, design, fashion, craftsmanship and overall ingenuity at the dawn of the Atomic Age can be revisited at the Prague City Gallery’s space in the Municipal Library.
- Former boxing champ finds solace in writing, will speak at workshop - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Former boxing champ finds solace in writing, will speak at workshopRochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - 1 hour agoMurray says he writes every day — in his journal, on scraps of paper or on his cell phone — whether it's poetry he composes in his head or a quote he thinks ...
- Write on! (Erie Times-News)
Is it time to make your writing a higher priority? Time you got out the novel/poems/essays/memoir you've been crafting for years, and finally revise the way you've promised yourself you'd do?
- Pig Iron festival set for July 19 - Vindicator
YOUNGSTOWN — Artists, vendors and entertainers are being sought for the annual Pig Iron Literary & Art Works Community Street Festival set for July 19 on North Phelps Street, downtown (between Commerce and Federal streets). Hours will be 10 a.m. to ...
- The death of grand poetry? (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Literary circles in the Arab world last week commemorated the tenth anniversary of the death of the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998), and this month marks 25 years since the death of the Egyptian poet Amal Donqol (1940-1983).
- Prevailing perceptions of Muslims - Hindu
HinduPrevailing perceptions of MuslimsHindu, India - 12 hours agoUrdu poetry bordered on heresy which might be considered un-Islamic today. For instance Ghalib, the doyen of Urdu poets, ridiculed the concept of paradise ...
- Graphic Novels We'd Like To See As Films - Starpulse.com
Starpulse.comGraphic Novels We'd Like To See As FilmsStarpulse.com, CT - 33 minutes agoSet in modern day and featuring unique poetry scattered throughout each issue, the story focuses on Francine Peters and Katina "Katchoo" Choovanski, ...
- Jazz on the weekends - Malaysia Star
Malaysia StarJazz on the weekendsMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 27 minutes agoThe Gujarati Youths of Wilayah Perseku-tuan and Selangor brings you an enchanting evening of love, drama, friendship and emotions in a musical entitled Aaja ...
- Bio-romantic - Prague Post
Bio-romanticPrague Post, Czech Republic - 21 minutes agoYet the title and content of an early work, Peyote Poem (1958), reveal the influence of the Marseilles-born dramatist Antonin Artaud, who prophesied the ...
- Daily Calendar - North Channel Sun
Pasadena Chamber of Commerce Membership meeting, 11:30 a.m. at First United Methodist Church-Pasadena. Speaker will be Mayor Johnny Isbell on “The State of the City.” Call the Chamber for more information, 281-487-7871. Pasadena Inspirational ...
- Poetic Justice: Spike in sales for Kay Ryan, the next poet laureate (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall.
- Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film set to go July 31 to August 9 - Post
Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film set to go July 31 to August 9Post, Canada - 2 hours agoPeople walking by can access a keyboard and create poetry on the spot. The opening night continues with a short trip to Hanover, home of one of the few ...
- Remembering Betsy - Inquirer.net
Remembering BetsyInquirer.net, Philippines - 2 minutes agoThe beginning of her story would be her birth as an only child of the livewire Amy Benitez-Ramos and the dancing Atenean Francisco Romualdez, ...
- The Gas Hike Poems - San Francisco Examiner
God or something keeps hurling these people onto the streets. And this one is insane and that one is dull. That one has a mangled face and that one has a mangled back. That one is some kind of hip doofus and that one is stressed out, tired, not ...
- Local Dispatch: A Poetry Slam dunk, from the halls of Pittsburgh Sterrett (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Hey, here's an idea. Take a bunch of eighth-graders desperately consumed with what's cool, what's not, what their friends think of what they wear, what they do and what they say -- and have them deliver their hopes, dreams, fears into words on a page called a poem.
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