Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- Insider's guide from the storyteller's mouth - Concord Monitor
New Hampshire storyteller and author Rebecca Rule will be celebrating publication of her latest work, Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller's Guide to New Hampshire, tomorrow night in Northwood with a launch party featuring - what else - a lot of pie ...
- 4th Quaid-e-Azam National Conference: Jinnah had the best voice ... - Daily Times
4th Quaid-e-Azam National Conference: Jinnah had the best voice ...Daily Times, Pakistan - 9 hours agoHe said that Jinnah’s wife, Rutti Jinnah, was also a poet and a major reason for their union was their unique taste for literature and poetry. ...
- SPOKEN WORD Day One scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in Madison - Isthmus
SPOKEN WORD Day One scores from National Poetry Slam 2008 in MadisonIsthmus, WI - Aug 6, 2008Nearly two-thirds of the 76 teams in the National Poetry Slam competed in their first bouts on Tuesday night at multiple venues throughout downtown Madison. ...
- Sunday-Fringe Day 4 - Twin Cities Planet
Sunday-Fringe Day 4Twin Cities Planet, Minnesota - 1 hour agoOur first show was Silent Poetry-a Tribute to Marcel Marceau. Dean Holt is amazing. I don’t have the vocabulary to describe mime from a technical standpoint ...
- Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (BBC News)
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Stalin's prison system, dies at the age of 89.
- Palanca won’t stage satirical play on woman president (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines—A satirical play -- about a woman president toying with the idea of establishing a monarchy to save her troubled nation -- could have brought the house down at Monday night’s award ceremonies of the 2008 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
- Find a themed cruise on new Web site - Southern Illinoisan
Cruises can be found with programming on all these themes and more. Some themed cruises offer lectures by experts, some offer performances, others offer hands-on activities from crafts to dance to seminars in photography. A new Web site called ...
- Smashing Pumpkins - Conde Nast Portfolio
Smashing PumpkinsConde Nast Portfolio, NY - 2 hours agoVeteran chunkers called the sport "poetry in commotion." The ingenious contraptions included outsize crossbows, pneumatic cannons, three-story slingshots, ...
- What's in a Name? - Slate
On frozen winter nights in Minneapolis, I used to lie in the dark and listen to the high-school hockey scores. They were read out on the radio—hockey is always news in Minnesota—but I didn't much care who won. I was 10 or 11 years old, a little ...
- In Box: Epiphanies: Elie Wiesel - Foreign Policy (subscription)
Foreign Policy (subscription)In Box: Epiphanies: Elie WieselForeign Policy (subscription) - 6 hours agoI believe in the power of poetry, and yet in those places of malediction, a simple soldier once had the power to kill a thousand poets with no one ...
- An open letter to Mr Asif Zardari: By Reza Hossein Borr - Pakistan Christian Post
An open letter to Mr Asif Zardari: By Reza Hossein BorrPakistan Christian Post, Pakistan - 9 minutes agoHe loved Persian poetry and I arranged for some of my great Persian poets to meet him in my home and read poem for him. I also met you once when I and your ...
- Area native publishes "Love is a Daisy," - Lansdale Reporter
Area native publishes "Love is a Daisy,"Lansdale Reporter, PA - 8 hours agoHer faith in this belief, as well as her fondest memories of raising her daughters and her passion for writing poetry and children's stories, have come full ...
- Sunflower musicians play Mozart arias tonight - Topeka Capitol-Journal
Opera without singing will be part of tonight's final chamber ensemble concert at the Sunflower Music Festival. The penultimate performance of the 22nd annual chamber music festival includes a woodwind octet playing various arias from Wolfgang ...
- "A Love Song for New Orleans" is poetry set to music (Louisiana Weekly)
When people think of a poet, they might imagine a solitary figure with pen in hand bent over a tablet at a coffee shop or in a corner of a quiet room. These days, it's also easy to picture a man or woman of verse contemplating their next stanza in front of a computer.
- Girlz on the hood (Guardian Unlimited)
Arts & entertainment: Artist Richard Prince has a thing about fast cars, nurses and other supposed male obsessions
|
|
Refinance today and save!
Florida Mortgage
Free Simple Mortgage Calculator
|