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- Spoken in slam: Poet brings swagger to SHS (Stamford Advocate)
STAMFORD - The students had the words, but Mahogany Browne helped them find their voices. Browne, slam curator from the New York City-based Nuyorican Poets Cafe, worked with Stamford High School students during a two-hour poetry slam workshop after school Thursday.
- 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare recovered a decade after it was stolen; man in custody (Boston Globe)
It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of dollars after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C., and asked to have it authenticated.
- Top Canadian writer leads off book festival - Press and Journal
Top Canadian writer leads off book festivalPress and Journal, UK - 9 hours ago... where she will talk about her book Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave. Gaelic poetry comes from two of Gaeldom’s best – Anne Frater, ...
- State of the arts - Guardian Unlimited
Misfits, artists, loners and stoners have been fleeing north from Manhattan for decades, looking for a slower pace of life away from the urban jungle. Some make it all the way to Canada but most city emigres stay in the small towns and villages of ...
- Handstands and anger (Guardian Unlimited)
Why I write: Poet Luke Kennard, the award-winning author of The Solex Brothers on reading Snoopy, fiddling with magnets and the unorthodox passions that drive his work
- Charleston Young Author winners head to state conference at Illinois State University (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
CHARLESTON — They told tales of treacherous street crossings, interesting facts about historical figures, daring escapes and romantic break-ups. There was non-fiction, poetry and short stories.
- Tapestry of Life… Ndidi’s days of little beginnings - Daily Sun
Daily SunTapestry of Life… Ndidi’s days of little beginningsDaily Sun, Nigeria - 19 hours agoThe painter also drew a connection between sculpture and paintings, poetry and folklore, stressing that the hallmark of creativity is dynamism. ...
- Love in this Club - Hartford Advocate
Hartford AdvocateLove in this ClubHartford Advocate, CT - 9 hours agoIt's grown into something of a downtown cultural institution with nights during the week devoted to jazz, poetry, and international styles of dancing. ...
- Like A Turtle, Top Poet Slow To Gain Recognition (The Tampa Tribune)
More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets.
- It's about time for baseball's attempts to speed games up - The Virginian-Pilot
It's about time for baseball's attempts to speed games upThe Virginian-Pilot, VA - 1 hour agoBaserball, a sport that often imagines poetry in the fidgeting and dawdling that goes on during games, has issued a memo to its big league managers and ...
- Poet Marie Howe's reading on Wednesday canceled - Democrat and Chronicle
Marie Howe’s poetry reading Wednesday at Writers & Books has been canceled because of because of travel difficulties. Howe, a Rochester native, was to appear as part of the Visiting Writers Series at 7 p.m. Howe's new poetry collection is The ...
- Reviewed by Alexandra Fuller - Washington Post
Reviewed by Alexandra FullerWashington Post, United States - 21 minutes agoThe martyrdom of Saro-Wiwa is a challenge to writers who find themselves in the midst of gross injustice to abandon the subtleties of fiction and poetry. ...
- Student magazine 'excellent' - Joliet Herald News
Student magazine 'excellent'Joliet Herald News, IL - May 16, 2008... including first-place for poetry. "I knew the writing and publishing talent among South students equaled or surpassed that evident at other schools," ...
- Clinton Makes Rocky Balboa Look like a Pansy? - ABC News
Clinton Makes Rocky Balboa Look like a Pansy?ABC News - Apr 29, 2008"Mario Cuomo who famously said one time you campaign in poetry but you govern in prose. I think that’s pretty descriptive cause when the lights are gone and ...
- Support Hancock for state Assembly - La Crosse Tribune
We have a chance to get someone who actually understands what the people of the 94th Assembly District are experiencing. Someone who understands that if you can’t afford to pay for an office call to a doctor to begin with, then health savings ...
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