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- Writers retreat steams full speed ahead, despite flooding - Evansville Courier & Press (subscription)
Writers retreat steams full speed ahead, despite floodingEvansville Courier & Press (subscription), IN - 35 minutes ago... an alumni reading and a community-centered day of "random acts of poetry and guerrilla prose" — has readings that are open to the public. ...
- Obituaries in the news - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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. Montejo's poetry is known for its rich texture and ...
- This guy enters more contests than anyone in Hampton Roads - HamptonRoads.com
Michael Croland has played in five air guitar contests, tried to write a novel in 72 hours, sculpted peanut butter twice (once into the shape of George W. Bush), competitively husked corn, written a one-page play, submitted an entry for a tanka ...
- Poets' corner is open to all - Harrow Observer
Poets' corner is open to allHarrow Observer, UK - 30 minutes agoRhymes, haiku, limericks, odes and sonnets will all be welcome and the poetry does not even have to be the reader's own but could be a partner's, child's, ...
- NEA grants $2.8 million for 'The Big Read' - San Francisco Gate
The National Endowment for the Arts announced Monday that more than 200 organizations nationwide will receive grants totaling $2.8 million to host "The Big Read," an initiative meant to restore book reading in American culture. In 2004, the NEA ...
- Fort Valley State camp nurtures young talent - Macon Telegraph
Fort Valley State camp nurtures young talentMacon Telegraph, GA - 2 hours agoThe young people's two weeks of intense work will culminate Friday with a free program, open to the public, at the school's Pettigrew Center. ...
- Event: Play in Indian-English, Sonata, produced by Ensemble When ... - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphEvent: Play in Indian-English, Sonata, produced by Ensemble When ...Calcutta Telegraph, India - 1 hour agoJune 27 at Rabindra Sadan; 5 pm: Darpani’s 13th annual programme features two dance items, Tomar Banshi Bajao Aashi (based on Tagore songs and poetry ...
- In Iraq, The Love Stories Are Gone - Common Dreams
BAGHDAD - As statistics go, at least 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the occupation, now in its fifth year. Every one of them has left behind once loved ones to mourn the loss and to think of what might have been. This is the land of the ...
- Kaplan and Newsweek Award $15000 to Winners of the 14th Annual "My ... - MarketWatch
Kaplan and Newsweek Award $15000 to Winners of the 14th Annual "My ...MarketWatch - 1 hour agoIn her winning essay, "Only Two Hands," Castle Rock, Colorado teen Katy Hoyer describes how the soothing sounds of her piano playing may have saved the life ...
- Fringe Finds - Gay City News
Fringe FindsGay City News - 1 hour agoAs you can imagine, a historical drama spanning from 1919 to 1943, laden with excerpts from actual letters, journal entries, and published poetry, ...
- Laurie Notaro (Washington City Paper)
Certain things are never easy to accept: forgiveness, death, the fact that your cat broke your nose. That last bit actually happened to author Laurie Notaro , but at least she lived to write about it.
- Fairfax woman's wild ride as national poet laureate - Marin Independent-Journal
Fairfax woman's wild ride as national poet laureateMarin Independent-Journal, CA - 37 minutes agoRyan's collections "The Niagara River," "Say Uncle" and "Elephant Rocks" top Amazon.com's list of best-selling poetry books and are out of stock. ...
- LAist Interview: Ed Park, founding editor of The Believer and ... - LAist
LAistLAist Interview: Ed Park, founding editor of The Believer and ...LAist, CA - 1 hour agoEditing is, I realize, part of what I do — at The Believer, at the Poetry Foundation website, and formerly at the Village Voice. ...
- 48 poets to be selected for Million's Poet (Khaleej Times)
ABU DHABI - From thousands of applicants, 48 poets will be selected for the final competition of the Million's Poet.
- Cancer’s toll: Two friends, too young, too soon - Lynchburg News and Advance
Lynchburg News and AdvanceCancer’s toll: Two friends, too young, too soonLynchburg News and Advance, VA - 3 hours agoAs a writer, he published a textbook on the Middle Ages and won prizes for fiction and poetry. As an educator, he became one of the most popular teachers at ...
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