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- Body of drowned kayaker, poet found in Salmon River - Northwest Cable News
Northwest Cable NewsBody of drowned kayaker, poet found in Salmon RiverNorthwest Cable News, OR - 22 hours agoHe's the author of about a dozen books of poetry and non-fiction, including "Short of a Good Promise," a 1999 reminiscence of growing up in the remote Idaho ...
- Books to travel with: The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester - New Scientist (subscription)
Books to travel with: The Man Who Loved China by Simon WinchesterNew Scientist (subscription), UK - 4 hours agoHowever, the west used to see it as a curiosity, an intellectual backwater: there was some nice art and some poetry worth translating, but the Chinese were ...
- Saving Library Branches Should Be A Priority - Hartford Courant
Saving Library Branches Should Be A PriorityHartford Courant, United States - 4 hours ago... the rich poetry of Maya Angelou; the life story of Malcom X; learning about the plight of the civil rights movement; and the tales of Edgar Allen Poe. ...
- Poetry reading next week in Owego (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
A poetry reading will be held from 8 to 9 p.m. July 1 at the Tioga Trails Café, 50 Lake St., Owego. Featured writers will be Andrei Guruianu, Mike Foldes, Judy Goldschmidt and Wendy Stewart.
- Art Finds a Way - Broward New Times
Art Finds a WayBroward New Times, FL - 5 hours agoObsessive and delicate are exactly the right words for Prusa's visual poetry. In the years I've been looking at and writing about her work, I have rarely ...
- And now, for something unsensational - Memphis Commercial Appeal
I am not so dumb as to not know that sensationalism sells newspapers as well as commercial ads on the local news, but enough is enough with the negative articles and stories about Memphis City Schools! I have been a teacher with MCS for 25 years. The ...
- The Activist (Washington Post)
WHY I CAME WEST By Rick Bass
- Man of verse finds spotlight a curse - Toronto Star
Man of verse finds spotlight a curseToronto Star, Canada - 16 minutes agoAnd he said very nice things about a poem I sent." McFadden, who as a teen started up the short-lived poetry magazine Mountain, has published more than 20 ...
- Cesaire honoured by Writers Union - Trinidad News
Cesaire honoured by Writers UnionTrinidad News, Trinidad and Tobago - 3 hours agoHis poetry had already been introduced to them with readings from his famous Return to my Native Land last year. He is required reading so members can ...
- Dinner, drink & a movie: Hong Kong Buffet, Bar Cento and `Priceless' - Cleveland Plain Dealer
PLAIN DEALER FILE PHOTOGRAPH A HEAPING HELPING: A selection from the Hong Kong Buffet includes cheese with crab casserole, chicken with broccoli, and sauteed green beans. Egg drop soup and fortune cookies round out the meal. Beer and a pizza doesn't ...
- Book festival receives grants (Casper Star-Tribune)
The Casper College/ARTCORE "Equality State Book Festival" recently received grants totaling more than $48,722 from outside funders, according to a release from the college.
- American vocalist to perform Iranian tunes in White Plains today (The Journal News)
WHITE PLAINS - Hartsdale resident Monika Jalili will share what she calls the beauty and nostalgia of Iranian music with the Westchester Arts Council today.
- Foundation plans annual Scholarship ‘Jamboree' (The Greenville News)
By giving to the students in the community, the Chapman Foundation hopes to inspire the students to give back later.
- Latitude Festival, Southwold, Suffolk (Independent)
In its three-year lifespan, Latitude has gone from being a boutique event and a reasonably well-kept secret to a major date on the festival calendar. With its "more than just a music festival" motto – it also hosts theatre, comedy, poetry and film – it's the sort of thing you can take the kids (or their grandparents) to, and plenty of people do just that.
- San Francisco (The San Francisco Examiner)
CARACAS , Venezuela (AP) - Eugenio Montejo, a Venezuelan poet and essayist who won the 2004 Octavio Paz prize, died Thursday. He was 70. The poet's publishing house said he died of natural causes.
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